What Was The Point Of Removing The Search From Gfy? - GoFuckYourself.com

mahoney · 10-16-2007, 04:09 PM

Now, there will be tons of people asking the same questions over and over. Gfy was a knowledge base when you could search it. The only thing positive is people not bumping old threads but how big of a problem was that?

High Plains Drifter · 10-16-2007, 04:10 PM

This thread has already been posted... do a search.

BoyAlley · 10-16-2007, 04:11 PM

The problem was that searches are what was slowing the site down to nearly unusable levels.

That's why, if you've noticed, the site is WAY faster now.

Now, hopefully they'll work to bring search back in a way that allows the functionality, but without the performance drawbacks.

High Plains Drifter · 10-16-2007, 04:18 PM

What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

$5 submissions · 10-16-2007, 04:19 PM

Knocked half the functionality of the site off....

On the upside, page views for listings will probably go up as people try to search manually.

mahoney · 10-16-2007, 04:50 PM

that makes sense but i hope it comes back

GrouchyAdmin · 10-16-2007, 04:57 PM

I had it surgically grafted onto my penis.

Randyyy · 10-16-2007, 05:04 PM

the search feature needs to seriously be brought back, there's no point in using GFY now

fuzebox · 10-16-2007, 06:47 PM

GFY should really hire a real sysadmin if they can't figure out how to make vbulletin run quickly on this amount of users.

Linkster · 10-16-2007, 07:38 PM

fuzebox - theyve needed to do that for years - someone that knows vbulletin and server admin would be a huge boost to this board - but seems like it always falls on deaf ears

kektex · 10-16-2007, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mahoney

Gfy was a knowledge base when you could search it.

Actually there are some useful threads around here.
FREE THE SEARCH!

Barefootsies · 10-16-2007, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by High Plains Drifter

This thread has already been posted... do a search.

fris · 10-16-2007, 09:01 PM

the point was to see how many idiots would make threads saying why is search disabled

Wizzo · 10-16-2007, 09:06 PM

Its only disabled for people in Ca...

MattO · 10-16-2007, 09:07 PM

Fuck if forums like somethingawful can have thousands of users on at a time without a problem I'm sure GFY can be fixed.

Red Ezra · 10-16-2007, 09:18 PM

insert intelligent response

Grapesoda · 10-16-2007, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Ezra

insert intelligent response

google will search GFY: does that qualify?

thonglife · 10-16-2007, 09:26 PM

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This thread has already been posted... do a search.

ronaldo · 10-16-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by High Plains Drifter

What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

Sorry man, you're wrong. People did complain...LOUDLY in fact. It just wasn't fashionable to have your own thread about it, and there were a LOT less useless posters.

When the search is back up I'll prove it if you need me too. I suspect it'll be up shortly after this skin is down.

Az A Bay Bay · 10-16-2007, 09:35 PM

idk.........

Az A Bay Bay · 10-16-2007, 09:35 PM

and whO caRes...
wht dOes it matter????

kmanrox · 10-16-2007, 09:36 PM

what was the URL of that programmer who spidered GFY and allowed you to search it from his website? i forget... is that still alive?

CDSmith · 10-16-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BoyAlley

The problem was that searches are what was slowing the site down to nearly unusable levels.

That's why, if you've noticed, the site is WAY faster now.

Now, hopefully they'll work to bring search back in a way that allows the functionality, but without the performance drawbacks.

What he said, quoted in non-color non-bold for your non-annoying viewing... because what he said is correct.

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Originally Posted by ronaldo

Sorry man, you're wrong. People did complain...LOUDLY in fact. It just wasn't fashionable to have your own thread about it, and there were a LOT less useless posters.

When the search is back up I'll prove it if you need me too. I suspect it'll be up shortly after this skin is down.

Also correct. People did complain back then as well.

Personally I don't mind putting up with the inconvenience for a while, as long as it eventually means the board improves. I'm all for improving things, always.

CDSmith · 10-16-2007, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by kmanrox

what was the URL of that programmer who spidered GFY and allowed you to search it from his website? i forget... is that still alive?

You know, that may not be a bad idea actually. Is it possible for Lens to farm out the search function? That way the load from searches falls on other servers, Lens pays for the bandwidth, we now have search AND a speedy board.

Doable?

I don't see why not, everything is doable. :D

baddog · 10-16-2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by High Plains Drifter

What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

Your memory is failing you.

Tempest · 10-16-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

You know, that may not be a bad idea actually. Is it possible for Lens to farm out the search function? That way the load from searches falls on other servers, Lens pays for the bandwidth, we now have search AND a speedy board.

Doable?

I don't see why not, everything is doable. :D

ummmmmmm... Lens could do the same damn thing...

Drake · 10-16-2007, 11:32 PM

Just wait a few more years. It'll get fixed, that's a promise.

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 10-16-2007, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ronaldo

Sorry man, you're wrong. People did complain...LOUDLY in fact. It just wasn't fashionable to have your own thread about it, and there were a LOT less useless posters.

When the search is back up I'll prove it if you need me too.

I suspect it'll be up shortly after this skin is down.

That was kind of my hunch too...

I'm cynical to a fault, but I despise self-serving corporate butt-maggots!

ADG

d-null · 10-17-2007, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by fuzebox

GFY should really hire a real sysadmin if they can't figure out how to make vbulletin run quickly on this amount of users.

got any tips?

JFK · 10-17-2007, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jetjet

got any tips?

YEAH, dont quit your day job

fuzebox · 10-17-2007, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jetjet

got any tips?

Tons, I still admin a board with 50k+ members, 500k+ threads, tons of daily whore threads and searches being ran around the clock, and the board runs snappy on a pair of low end servers from theplanet.com which I log into every 3 months or so.

I don't get how with 6 figures monthly revenue, and their own hosting company, why GFY can't manage to do the same...

polish_aristocrat · 10-17-2007, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by fuzebox

Tons, I still admin a board with 50k+ members, 500k+ threads, tons of daily whore threads and searches being ran around the clock, and the board runs snappy on a pair of low end servers from theplanet.com which I log into every 3 months or so.

I don't get how with 6 figures monthly revenue, and their own hosting company, why GFY can't manage to do the same...

actually they sold Jupiter Hosting

not that it matters in any way

bobby666 · 10-17-2007, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by High Plains Drifter

What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

really ? i must search for that

Randyyy · 10-17-2007, 08:45 AM

what do the mods say about the search issue?

Penthouse Tony · 10-17-2007, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by bobby666

really ? i must search for that

Good luck

Eric · 10-17-2007, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by BoyAlley

The problem was that searches are what was slowing the site down to nearly unusable levels.

That's why, if you've noticed, the site is WAY faster now.

Now, hopefully they'll work to bring search back in a way that allows the functionality, but without the performance drawbacks.

Good to see that someone is paying attention

Randyyy · 10-17-2007, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric

Good to see that someone is paying attention

yea but are you coming up with a better search function??

fris · 10-17-2007, 10:30 AM

you could mirror the search data over to another server, and do searches via another domain

RawAlex · 10-17-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by fuzebox

Tons, I still admin a board with 50k+ members, 500k+ threads, tons of daily whore threads and searches being ran around the clock, and the board runs snappy on a pair of low end servers from theplanet.com which I log into every 3 months or so.

I don't get how with 6 figures monthly revenue, and their own hosting company, why GFY can't manage to do the same...

Figure the scale of GFY. There are plenty of companies out there running bots 24 hours a day, probably every few minutes, looking for threads with things like "I need a host" or "spam me with feeds" so they can jump in an autopost bullshit.

There are also bots out there whacking at the DB looking for new threads so they can post "sig post" and "fifty pissed off webmasters" at the right point to secure sig space.

Then there is apparently a large number of extremely paranoid program owners and invidivuals who feed the need to search for their names 100 times per day to make sure we didn't say they are caners or that their program sucks donkey dicks or that they are legendary liars.

Your site ain't got nothing on what the GFY search is suffering through.

That and sometimes I think this board is run on massively out of date software, operating systems, and servers.

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BoyAlley So Fucking Gay Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 19,714	The problem was that searches are what was slowing the site down to nearly unusable levels. That's why, if you've noticed, the site is WAY faster now. Now, hopefully they'll work to bring search back in a way that allows the functionality, but without the performance drawbacks.

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High Plains Drifter Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: ♠ ♣ ♥ Posts: 2,341	What's funny is that a couple years back the search was removed for about 3 months and NOBODY complained.

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