Ewach Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 These forums are SO active it's nearly impossible to find anything on a specific subject. Is there a forum search feature and I've just not found it yet? If there's not, then why not? The search feature on forums is not exactly revolutionary at this point in time; it's pretty much an expected function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViceGat Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I want this also, I'd rather find an existing thread on my subject rather than start a whole new thread. If your thread is just one of many like it, people start posting nasty things about you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SelinaK Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I am hoping it was just turned down for the opening day, we'll see though I guess - They do actually have one already, just turned off at the moment See my signature for what to put in google to search though, it's a workaround but updates much slower obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul-Rando Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I would also like to see the search feature activated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimG Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Pretty sure I read somewhere that it was temporarily disabled during the launch and initial phase of the game....something to do with taxing the servers. Don't remember seeing an ETA on when they were going to re-enable it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThorinIronfield Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Yeah JimG saw something along those lines as well. Hopefulyl sometime in the New Year and not too long after that. -Ironfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asuffield Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Pretty sure I read somewhere that it was temporarily disabled during the launch and initial phase of the game....something to do with taxing the servers. Don't remember seeing an ETA on when they were going to re-enable it though. The short version is that vbulletin's search is kinda bad, and doesn't scale effectively to the number of users here. Doing something about this is challenging; the underlying problem is that it uses mysql and there is just no way to get mysql to scale. I suspect they're just waiting for the load to drop off. (Beats me why big game developers keep using vbulletin, when it has these issues that make life hard for everybody) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alkanterah Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 I just find it odd that the very same day that 20 month old girl went missing in Maine (Dec 17th), Bioware shut down our forum search. COINCIDENCE?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenofthirteen Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 /sign to have a "search" feature on forums as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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