Nishi-chan Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 Is it possible to allow any amount of letters for the search but not allow certain words, such as 'the'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 [quote name='Umbra' timestamp='1310336672' post='5343826'] 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. [/quote] I understand what you mean and I am familiar with denial-of-service attacks. We could only restrict the use of some specific words, like "the". But the search functions forbid the ALL words with less than 3 letters. Or we could just forbid searching only 3 letter words. The word "Xyz" for example would be forbidden, but "Xyz template" not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 BUMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varionius Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 You have my full support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 BUMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varionius Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 You are welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 BUMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 bumbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MibeR Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 Fully support i want search Raging Earth, but failed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Thanks[img]http://public.yugiohcardmaker.net/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endphase Posted July 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 bumbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazekage dragon Posted July 28, 2011 Report Share Posted July 28, 2011 Fully supporting as well! So bump that list up to 92! It was one of the reasons I logged out for 3 years from the forum. (You used Xyz Template as an example and that is exactly what I COULDN'T search for!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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