Hey everyone,
Now that the tour is starting back we need to make some changes so the site will stay online. As many of you know, the search feature built into the forum software is not very good. It's the way the search is designed and leads to what they call "the search of death" which can crash the server really easily. To address this we had to increase the shortest word length from 2 letters to 3 letters.
As a work around we have added a Google search option under the search drop down menu in the navbar.
Another tweak we needed to make was removing the "jump to" menu on the bottom of the page as that runs a pretty big query on every page load. We understand that this might effect the experience of some of the members and are looking forward to putting it back when the traffic slows down.
Thanks for understanding.
Andy
Now that the tour is starting back we need to make some changes so the site will stay online. As many of you know, the search feature built into the forum software is not very good. It's the way the search is designed and leads to what they call "the search of death" which can crash the server really easily. To address this we had to increase the shortest word length from 2 letters to 3 letters.
As a work around we have added a Google search option under the search drop down menu in the navbar.
Another tweak we needed to make was removing the "jump to" menu on the bottom of the page as that runs a pretty big query on every page load. We understand that this might effect the experience of some of the members and are looking forward to putting it back when the traffic slows down.
Thanks for understanding.
Andy