That's very taxing and resource inefficient.
Especially when you have people searching themselves to see how many posts they made on the entire board.
t cough cough
Not that I would ever do that or anything....at least not again.
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Kat - Jun 19, 2003 11:21:42 am PDT #4177 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aims - Jun 19, 2003 1:28:07 pm PDT #4178 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
June 19, 2003, 3:27 pm Aimée[68]: ERROR [2] mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 74 of file /home/bufforg/public_html/classes/giles.php
There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?
Just got this 3 times in a row. FYI.
Deena - Jun 19, 2003 1:28:49 pm PDT #4179 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
and so did I, in literary.
Kat - Jun 19, 2003 1:29:58 pm PDT #4180 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I got the same error. But all better now.
Jesse - Jun 19, 2003 3:59:33 pm PDT #4181 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For search, would it be worthwhile to set something that quits the search if it's going to have more than, say, 100 results? Or something? t /ignorant unhelpfulness
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2003 7:14:11 pm PDT #4182 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My plan is to have it search in segments of 20 per page.
Rebecca Lizard - Jun 20, 2003 9:45:06 pm PDT #4183 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
My plan is to have it search in segments of 20 per page.
ita, would you still be able to, if you wished, have it display more to a page? For better search-on-page ability?
Especially when you have people searching themselves to see how many posts they made on the entire board.
Ah, well, sometimes... you're searching because you want to read all of the posts your girlfriend made... t slinks off
Er, not really. What I wanted to ask was: was it intentional that we changed our datestamp from EST to PDT, or did something get jumbled around in the move...?
Jon B. - Jun 20, 2003 11:21:44 pm PDT #4184 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The date stamp is determined by where the server lives. HR is in NY, fangeek is in CA.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2003 6:51:30 am PDT #4185 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ita, would you still be able to, if you wished, have it display more to a page?
In theory ... I'd like to cap it at 50. The search function is very intensive, and it was what drove server load up and crashed the CPU the first time we went down.
So, like Google and all the other big search engines, not too many.
Michele T. - Jun 21, 2003 7:49:08 am PDT #4186 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
FWIW, it's a rule of thumb with commercial search engines, whether general web ones like Google or site-specific ones, that the number of clickthroughs to each next page of search results declines exponentially. If people don't find what they're looking for on that first page, they tend to refine their search and try again.
The one time I did user testing on search (on a corporate site, so, YMMV), I also found that people didn't as a rule *want* to see a huge number of results -- they got overwhelmed by it. If, as I'm guessing, the average Buffistas search is more like "where was Rio's post about the muffin theory again?" than "I want to see everything this person ever posted," then a smaller number of inital results is going to be a help to the average searcher rather than a hindrance.