kinda defeats the purpose if its moved to a forum that nobody reads. So much for power of the people, if no one really gives a sh!t…
Welcome to my world
Kind of the main forum moderators to kick this down to me…
The search engine is a built-in function of vBulletin. We are aware of the problem but at this time, it is beyond our control.
With a forum of our magnitude, we require a professional service that is affordable. Those of you who have been here a while remember when we had to transfer forums twice before. To be frank, the problem is money. It costs a fair chunk of change to run this kind of forum. Our previous hosts we’re just about to move us to an $800+ a month program because of our growth - far beyond our budget for this project, which is why we switched for vBulletin. vBulletin is far from perfect, but it’s the best we can afford at this time. The recent update was to solve something much more problematic - the moderation controls were offline. Now they’re online, which is why you are seeing threads move, deletions and banning. Hopefully, we can update the search next, but it relies a lot on vBulletin to make the upgrade.
Thanx Gene. Atleast you took the time to respond. The search engine is not that big of a problem but it gets annoying. We all appreciate the board though. I guess we have to deal with it folks.
Beleive me, you’re not the only one that’s annoyed
It is definately something we are looking into. I was hoping there would be an upgrade in our recent upgrade, but no. I want that search function as badly as you do. Keep your fingers crossed.
Serach engine update
As it stands, the search engine is internally set to allow a minimum of 4 and maximun of 20, with wild cards. Did that change anything? Doesn’t look like it. It’s some kind of internal bug to the system. There is another update available - we are looking into if this will improve the situation. Thanks for your patience all.
Try the serach function now
I think we got it working properly.