Author Topic: 3 Letter Search Function (Read 439 times)

Raptor · « **on:** January 23, 2008, 03:41:59 AM »

As of right now it requires 4 characters min. to perform a search on the BBs. I want to see 3 letters be the new min.
For Example:
B29
P39
P61
M26
M18

Hien · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:06:07 AM »

I agree fully.

That and/or just sticky some of the bigger, more informative threads on the more commonly asked aircraft/Equipment.

Latrobe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2008, 04:47:12 AM »

I don't think that making the search minimum requirments from 4 letters to 3 will make the irritating B-29, P-39, etc etc threads go away. The ones who do it don't use the search feature now, so changing how many letters it take to search won't make a difference.

As for making a Sticky on them, I have a feeling someone will post a thread, lets say on a request for the B-29, and say "i no thers a stiky on this but i wish we had teh b29 and nookzzz!!!"

That's just My 0.02

RTHolmes · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2008, 05:38:59 AM »

agreed, cant see a reason not to have 3-letter searches.

also the search function is too slow - get new posts should take 0.3s not 30s to return results. my guess is the table indexes arent configured correctly (i can help with this if required

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Hien · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2008, 07:35:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Latrobe
I don't think that making the search minimum requirments from 4 letters to 3 will make the irritating B-29, P-39, etc etc threads go away. The ones who do it don't use the search feature now, so changing how many letters it take to search won't make a difference.

As for making a Sticky on them, I have a feeling someone will post a thread, lets say on a request for the B-29, and say "i no thers a stiky on this but i wish we had teh b29 and nookzzz!!!"

That's just My 0.02

I didn't think about the first one, good point.

Second one, I've never considered myself a brightest light bulb in the fixture, but I'd like to believe that most people would see the sticky and go "Oh, I can just post here!" But you're probably right about some people just making a new thread.

I think this is one of those things that won't ever vanish, well, at least until we get the danged thing (just the B-29).

But I have this bad feeling that when/if we do. Something bad will happen, like CT will be canceled. Gotta counterbalance the awesome.

*shudders*

The Fugitive · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2008, 09:53:51 AM »

I think it was said that the reason they don't let searches for 3 letters is because it would double/triple the number of words a search has to look through. Not only would it make to search times much longer, the hit on the servers to spend the extra time on the searches could cause lag problems.

RTHolmes · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2008, 10:02:10 AM »

well if you're searching on unindexed columns any search will be slow and cause a performance hit, like now. mysql is just about the fastest database available for reads. sort the indexes, enable 3-letter searches and the speed/cpu hit will be a 100th of what it is now. win-win