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is there a reason it has been disabled or is it just disabled for me?

because it slows the site down when people use it.

Never gets old.

There was a thread about this a while back. Try doing a search for it.

and what's the CP varsity thing and what's going on with those roast threads i can't find them all and anything else that's happened in the last 2 years somebody catch me up there's no search engine. I could use some cliff notes.

Try searching for something cooler

good to be back

Haha

But Argo wasn't cool.

Austinchief decided to put in something cooler than search.
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It must be broke then. :D

Contact Bob Dole.

I heard he's hard to get a hold of so you have to PM him several times in order for him to get it.


:D

Taco Bell dump.

Rain Man is Zul the gatekeeper

Mine's working fine. I think you have to be a Premium member to use search.

Nothing has really happened the last couple years. We've just been waiting for you to show back up.

Your mom was searching last night. She found it.....

God, she is such a whore.

You have to be a varsity member in order to use the search function.

I do take payment plans.

well this place is going to hell since that Joey guy left

Well I've been masturbating alot in the past 2 years. Figure 5 times a week, 104 weeks, 520 times.

I've literally jerked it 520 times while you were gone and, truth is, I wasn't thinking about you at all while I did it.

Is this the norm?

I rarely think about Joey when I fap.

I like the mudflap on 82.

I think most women are clueless with regard to male masturbation.

Bob Dole likes to be PM. A lot

These statements are becoming hurtful.

Well...you've been gone. It's only natural for the feelings to start to fade away.

Oh, and the server still sucks ****ing ass even with the search disabled.

Out out sight out of mind completely understandable.

It'd be nice if Austin atleast came out and said what it would take to get the search back.

find every Waldo there was never meant to be found and then you will find search.

Something to the effect of "dump everything and start over from scratch on a new forum platform" most likely.

(That's not the only option, but every option will take that level of work or more.)

They should technically be able to turn it back on, but it really is the main source of server glitches.

Yup. Basically we can upgrade VB software which will marginally help but is a metric ton of work or we can throw more hardware at it which is actually not a ton of work but is ridiculously expensive.

Maybe we could have a bake sale...or a car wash.

Or a bake wash!

I actually am looking at a few options now. One option would increase our HDD space 6 fold and our RAM 10 fold. I need to compare CPUs on that option but the RAM increase alone should make it worth doing.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Use google with the site qualifier

Thanks for chiming in, gentlemen... sounds like quite the big hairy deal.

But I bet you could count most everyone here, including me, in for atleast something if that's what it took, I cant be the only one that really misses search.

Would hardware even make that much of a difference at this point? Seems like the issue is more that the database doesn't scale well rather than our current server being old and shitty.

I'm not sure I'll ever be able to look at another man without thinking about it.

For sure, I'm turning into a hugger.

No handshakes or fist bumps.

Though I don't claim to be an expert on how most men do it, I would imagine that using the backs of one's hands would be difficult. Fist bumps should be reasonably safe.

Shit kids everywhere during a Dutch Rutter though.

I imagined it a messy process wrought with silken strands flailing all over the place.

Am I not nearly as worldly as I thought?

There certainly are some diminishing returns. Upgrading the software will let us move to InnoDB tables which would help but adding RAM would definitely make a huge difference as well. I'm talking about going from 12GB to 128GB.

Idealy , if we had a VB5 theme ready (the majority of the work is here) we could do the hardware and software migration simultaneously. Not much chance of that though.

I haven't paid much attention - is VB5 still widely regarded to be a buggy piece of shit?

Mysqldump into a txt file
Tar up the web dir
Setup AWS server
Copy files
MySQL import into Amazon AWS
Untar the web dir

Profit

Unfortunately yes but it has gotten much better. I have researched other options but I think in the end it will be best to stick with VB.

One nice thing about VB5 is that I can pay an extra $200 and get the code to release a CP Android or iOS app to replace crappy Tapatalk.

The big hold up right now is actually the issue of creating a theme for it. I have very limited graphics skills and not even time to build one out.

If there are any volunteers who want to work on a VB5 site design... speak up and I can set up a demo CP site to mess with!

Not a fan of AWS for this but yeah that is basically the process minus a few steps and replace AWS with a different dedicated server.

If you're to the point you want to seriously try and make it happen soon, I'm in as usual.

Which CPers are these?

I'm ready to but the sticking point is still the damn template/visual design aspect. I'm at the point where I may look at one of the firms that I could hire to do that.

I'll at least try to mess around and see if I can make it workable. But if there's any way a pro might be able to do it in the budget, that would be awesome.

I'd bet we could get at least $500-$1k in donations from people to help out if it'll get anywhere close. I suspect it would be considerably more than that though unless you find someone who already knows vb5 really well.

I'm tempted to go with a pretty big change and switch to something like Google Material Design.
http://www.google.com/design/spec/ma...oduction.html#

It seems to lend itself to the new VB structure pretty well but I think our "freak out" factor would be pretty damn high.

Next up: disabling threads and posts because those slow down the site.

The ones listening to these guys talking about fixing this deal.

*AWKWARD HIGH FIVE!*

Hell yeah! We'd be blazingly fast then! Thanks for the idea! :D

I'll toot my own horn and pat myself on the back for starting this very productive thread.. go me

It was proven during NoTY that the Google search sucks donkey balls.

True story, I posted a question about hydro mousse lawn treatment in a puked 50 bucks into my lawn thread thanks to google search and lack of proofreading

Are you running straight MySQL or a more optimized fork such as MariaDB or Percona?

Could/Would make a significant performance increase to switch.

We are on MySQL 5.6 for now. The plan is to migrate to MariaDB if we move servers.