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Abort search restrictions (91 supporters)


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  1. 1. Do you support?

    • Yes, I do.
      92
    • No, I don't.
      0
    • I don't know.
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There's a completely logical reason why words with less than three letters aren't allowed.

Say, perhaps, that you'd search for the word "the". This being one of the most common words in the English language, if not the most common (see, I've used it four times already, and I haven't even started yet) of all. What the Search does is that it looks through all of the posts in the forum, searches for instances of the word "the", and returns them to the searcher. Searching for a word like "the" would probably return results that number in the millions - an enormous strain on the database, caused by a single user. YCM sees several hundred active users a day. Excessive strain on the database leads to downtimes and overall slow performance. I don't know if you're familiar with the word "DDos" or denial-of-service attacks, but this would roughly cause the same.

So no, I don't support.
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