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I've had to disable the vB Search due to it freezing the server at high loads. I'm currently looking at alternative solutions, and in the mean time I suggest you use the Google search.

That' s a serious bummer.

but google search is finding out random post

It was a last resort. Someone did a query and it froze the server for over 5 minutes.

Unfortunately its not a surprise considering we're nearing 5 million posts.

delete otf?

I experienced the freezing.

Hmmm....I know last night I had the site freeze up for about 5 minutes (this was at about 5 am CST).

Kinda sucky though

reboot one of the threads for a fresh start

Originally posted by Lana
Hmmm....I know last night I had the site freeze up for about 5 minutes (this was at about 5 am CST).

Kinda sucky though This may be around the time when a automated backup is made of the forums. Does it usually happen around the same time?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!


why are you turning all the nice options off?
first pm tracking and now search?



why will i meet the honour of being noticed?

dang... imo its far superior to the google one...

Originally posted by Clovie
!!!!!!!!!!!!!


why are you turning all the nice options off?
first pm tracking and now search?



why will i meet the honour of being noticed? Unless I fix the resource hogs, KMC will be unusable.

Originally posted by Clovie
delete otf?

hysterical damn clovs that was funny

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
hysterical damn clovs that was funny i was serious deleting old and closed threads would reduce the number of posts.

Originally posted by Raz
Unless I fix the resource hogs, KMC will be unusable. how are you fixing those?

Originally posted by Raz
This may be around the time when a automated backup is made of the forums. Does it usually happen around the same time?

I'm normally not up at that time, last night I was just a bit more insomniatic (is that a word) than normal.....so I don't know.

and....honestly..
how do you use that google seach?
i put 'clovie' there..and the result was main page of kmc cry

The Google search is far less accurate than the vB Search. A reason why I never used it.

see? it shows random threads and main page.

Basically, it shows every thread in which your username appears.

not only if it was that case it wouldn't be so bad...

Originally posted by Storm
The Google search is far less accurate than the vB Search. A reason why I never used it. You have to be a little creative with Google to make it work.

For instance. To find all posts with the word Clovie in, but not posts by Clovie, search for clovie -"Registered: Dec 2003" inurl:html

i've putted that line ^ into google thing.. and i got some thread in star wars forum

Yeah, I found out in the Anime/Manga forum. I tried searching poem but it wouldn't work. No worry though, it was only on the third page.

Hey, Raz is back! Wait, did you go away again or something or you been back ages...?

Delete the OTF, remake it, and elt all the "old" but active threads start again.

I think the Google search is indeed beyond creativity; I've never had a successful search with it.

Mind you, VB was only 50/50.

Deleting the OTF sounds pretty silly IMO. There's no reason to delete an entire forum. I can very well say the same, only use argument as well, see?

Delete James Bond, religious forum and a lot of other forums like the Religion forum that get very few visitors and posts in comparison to the OTF. It's one of the most active, if not THE most active part of KMC.

~wickerman~

Originally posted by Raz
we're nearing 5 million posts. w00t

Kind of hard to use Google when you're trying to determine weither or not to close a thread because it's been done before.

cant raz just delete threads that serve no purpose anymore? delete half the off topic forum

Originally posted by Wickerman
Deleting the OTF sounds pretty silly IMO. There's no reason to delete an entire forum. I can very well say the same, only use argument as well, see?

Delete James Bond, religious forum and a lot of other forums like the Religion forum that get very few visitors and posts in comparison to the OTF. It's one of the most active, if not THE most active part of KMC.

~wickerman~

It also causes the most problems.

I think I've maybe once in the google search found what I was looking for, and that's with using creative keywords and such...

really? coz i never got anything while using it it doesn't take chronology into consideration at all.

Well, the thread I was looking for at the time was something oddly named and that I had posted in a long time ago (under my original username), so I was able to trick it into finding it for me

trick being the keyword i s'posse

Guess so

Well removing the search button, will only cause more problems, since now people will make billions of more threads, because either they can't find the old one, or they don't know one has been made. I say take off the google search witch no one, really knows about or uses/it don't really work anyway.

Originally posted by Lana
It also causes the most problems.

I think I've maybe once in the google search found what I was looking for, and that's with using creative keywords and such...

It's also the one with the most posts. The one with most posters, the one with the most traffic. I'm sure KMC would survive just fine without it, but i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people left

~wickerman~

Originally posted by Clovie
delete otf?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

bring back vb search!!

Well, there is no choice but to google search for now. Feels ackward not have it.

Google search so far has proved to be absolutely useless.

google search is about as useful as a pair of sunglasses on a guy with one ear

Originally posted by DarkC
Google search so far has proved to be absolutely useless.
Sometimes yes, I type in 'Manga' in google, I click the first thing that's up & there's a hentai women there. Yeah, manga can be for older people too, but....

Here's another, I type in something in google images & get something totally different, like I type in Jak, & get Mario? What the....!

And other times, there's rude images...I got someone's...thing showing while searching for Zelda...

little bastard put in crap with the same name

hahahaha i thought i was just me!

so thats what happened to it...
there goes all the perks.

kmc without serach bar is like woman without breasts

let's not go THAT far.

wow, I had no idea it was that much used

I will try to come up with a solution soon.

Yeah, it's used pretty often, I know I use it constantly looking stuff up.

it's the only decent way to make a search

If it ever comes back, I'll never take it for granted again.

I used it at a daily basis.

same here

I used it on a daily basis.

I did too

me too!

what a coincidence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, its back in beta form for the time being.

Hopefully, should be much faster and lighter on the servers.

Oh and you can now share search links without problem.

Razzle?

ermm..it's great it back and thanks for that




but now it's finding threads and not separate posts...so on my side it doesn't change much bag

can't edit bag

dunce
i wanna say sorry for my previous post. it's irrelevant and pointless. i had that 'show results as threads' thingie checked bag sowwie bag





but still results are kinda weird bag

Originally posted by Raz
Well, its back in beta form for the time being.

Hopefully, should be much faster and lighter on the servers.

Oh and you can now share search links without problem.

thank god for that...

Originally posted by Raz
Well, its back in beta form for the time being.

Hopefully, should be much faster and lighter on the servers.

Oh and you can now share search links without problem.

im proud of ya!

it's not working how it should. weep

Originally posted by Clovie
it's not working how it should. weep Please explain with an example.

Originally posted by Raz
Please explain with an example. I've putted into it someword that i knew was said like yesterday. and it didn't find it.
and it seems to be searching only in otf and gdf

Perhaps you mispelled it. It doesn't take that into account.

no. i spelled it right. and it found some threads/post from year ago

...and can you now tell us what this search phrase was...?

bag with the old search i was putting there 'clovie' from time to time and then i knew where ppl had refered to me., so i could reply. it was comfortable. and with the new one it doesn't work. but i notice ppl talking to me, so i don't understand it bag

Could you now show me the post it's not indexing?

sure
this one:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=4995539#post4995539

It seems the search engine has placed your name as a common word, which means that its used quite often.

It doesn't log commons words such as 'the', 'it', 'a' and any other words that are used so often that it would make the search engine not do its job properly.

also i typed in marvel in the unhosted roleplay's to see the old one but it didnt find it. i then typed the full name and it found it. why does it only do full names?

Originally posted by Raz
It seems the search engine has placed your name as a common word, which means that its used quite often.

It doesn't log commons words such as 'the', 'it', 'a' and any other words that are used so often that it would make the search engine not do its job properly. you're kidding? how can my name be used too often?


edit: can't you just get it out of that list with common words?

people love you clov. just like me

you mean that people love you? ok

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ermm....I've clicked on find last post thingie and got this:

automatically?

I have the same message appearing as well. Find last post and the vB Search are disabled.

but most of the time find last post thing is working. i don't get it.

Unfortunately it's a necessary evil. Searching through over 5 million posts is no easy feat. And it is only disabled when we are really busy.

Ya, It happens every now and then, It does it on my forum on occasion.

But, I just ignore it.

Oh, bless Raz... he's working his bottom off