Community Relations Archive

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teh_n00b123 wrote:

LOL, I know the search function is bad...lithium sucks. Moral of the story kids: If you ever start up a website with forums, do not use lithium.

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These forums are actually pretty nice, when compared to the alternatives. They're also a lot more scalable than others like vBulletin.. tens of thousands of users? vBulletin would cry at that methinks

these forums as an idea are great, but man are they slow and how many times do you get 'too many searches'. absolute rubbish here if you ask me. you do better searching the forums with google than you do with their own internal search engine with lithium. sooner they sort it out the better, i get the search message 8/10 times i hit search. no joke.

The search in this thing is almost completely worthless anyway... AT LEAST have it return results starting with the most recent

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Cigaran wrote:

Sorry, I'm not trying to get pissy but here's the deal.

I've tried doing a search for about 20 minutes now. I'm not getting the normal "Too many searches" message. Instead, I get my list of stuff that's been found. Now, when I click on a link and then try to come back to my list of topics, THEN I get the "too many searches" message.

Is there anyway to fix this?! I really don't see why it's having to research this stuff since I'm clicking 'back' on my browser. In my understanding, this is a temporary page thats in my browser and NOT something that is making the system search again.

No rant intended, this has been an issue for far, far too long. I've never seen a forum that has this many issues with a basic feature not working right.

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How about opening the links in a new page so you don't have to go back. (for IE: hold shift while clicking a link or right-click a link and choose 'open in a new window')

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1963explorer wrote:

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Cigaran wrote:

Sorry, I'm not trying to get pissy but here's the deal.

I've tried doing a search for about 20 minutes now. I'm not getting the normal "Too many searches" message. Instead, I get my list of stuff that's been found. Now, when I click on a link and then try to come back to my list of topics, THEN I get the "too many searches" message.

Is there anyway to fix this?! I really don't see why it's having to research this stuff since I'm clicking 'back' on my browser. In my understanding, this is a temporary page thats in my browser and NOT something that is making the system search again.

No rant intended, this has been an issue for far, far too long. I've never seen a forum that has this many issues with a basic feature not working right.

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How about opening the links in a new page so you don't have to go back. (for IE: hold shift while clicking a link or right-click a link and choose 'open in a new window')

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Yeah I could do this. The point is I shouldn't HAVE to do it just to conduct my search.

A few posts up it was mentioned about starting with the most recent posts first. I'll second that. It's like they have no idea how to make a search function actually do something useful...

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Cigaran wrote:

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1963explorer wrote:

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Cigaran wrote:

Sorry, I'm not trying to get pissy but here's the deal.

I've tried doing a search for about 20 minutes now. I'm not getting the normal "Too many searches" message. Instead, I get my list of stuff that's been found. Now, when I click on a link and then try to come back to my list of topics, THEN I get the "too many searches" message.

Is there anyway to fix this?! I really don't see why it's having to research this stuff since I'm clicking 'back' on my browser. In my understanding, this is a temporary page thats in my browser and NOT something that is making the system search again.

No rant intended, this has been an issue for far, far too long. I've never seen a forum that has this many issues with a basic feature not working right.

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How about opening the links in a new page so you don't have to go back. (for IE: hold shift while clicking a link or right-click a link and choose 'open in a new window')

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Yeah I could do this. The point is I shouldn't HAVE to do it just to conduct my search.

A few posts up it was mentioned about starting with the most recent posts first. I'll second that. It's like they have no idea how to make a search function actually do something useful...

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In this case 'they' are Lithium. Nothing SOE can do about that except kindly ask Lithium to change it.

And about using the back button (forgot to add that in my first reply): I think that when you have IE set to 'look for an updatedpage every time you visit a page' the search engine is fired up again each time you hit the back button because the engine has found new messages in the database and therefor the page is marked as updated. (Yikes, that's a long sentence; hopeit makes sense.)