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:D

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  • 08.24.2006 11:38 AM PDT

ITS SO BEAUTIFUL ITS AMAZING THANK YOU!!!

  • 08.24.2006 11:40 AM PDT
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I think theres a rank now. When you search for members you get a rank at the bottom :O




  • 08.24.2006 11:41 AM PDT

Still it is better than nothing
HORRAY!!!!

  • 08.24.2006 11:47 AM PDT
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about time! :D

now, lets see why it took so long :P

  • 08.24.2006 11:48 AM PDT

EF! alt-4

"Dork faced boy got apocalypse charm, with a yellowy grin, metal thin, metal limbs, metal kicks, kiss metal bricks! Metal, medal with this anti-bliss missile."

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Definitely worth the wait. Bravo to all involved =)

  • 08.24.2006 11:49 AM PDT

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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Please direct your thanks to our other web programmer who has been working on this and other things for a while now. The search finally came about because of the extra manpower he provided - and it even searches the whole site, not just the forums.

  • 08.24.2006 11:50 AM PDT
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What does "rank" mean?

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Oh yeah, thank you so much Achronos!!!! We love you!! Who is the other web programmer?

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  • 08.24.2006 11:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
Please direct your thanks to our other web programmer who has been working on this and other things for a while now. The search finally came about because of the extra manpower he provided - and it even searches the whole site, not just the forums.


Thank you Skiptrace!

If that's who Achronos was referring to....

*edit* Apparently not.......well thanks to both of you anyway. And to you too, other web programmer!


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  • 08.24.2006 11:52 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Dude, that's just wrong. And my fiance might have something to say about that. :)

In addition, most the congrats should be directed to our other web programmer (who isn't Skiptrace, he's a tester, although he did a lot of good work to test the system out), I wasn't that involved in this other than making sure you could search by author in a forum search.

Posted by: spartakus14
I'd have sex with achronos if I wasn't straight.


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  • 08.24.2006 11:53 AM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

THe search feature will be coming...oh, wait, it's here! YAY!

  • 08.24.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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The last time a possible search feature was announced, the idea was scrapped because you didn't have sufficient resouces i.e. the servers were not good enough. Am I incorect or have there been some major upgrades?

  • 08.24.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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Thank you other web programmer.

  • 08.24.2006 11:58 AM PDT
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tell him to make an account so we can rub his 'ego' >.>

  • 08.24.2006 12:02 PM PDT
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what does rank mean?

and who is the other programmer?

  • 08.24.2006 12:02 PM PDT

If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.

I just noticed this, and was like "holy -blam!-"

The Coming of the search bar clearly precedes the coming of Owt Gnop!

  • 08.24.2006 12:03 PM PDT

Heh. When I first saw the forum search box at the top of the screen I snapped an image of it just in case when I refreshed it disappeared. Thank you to all those who were involved in making the search feature a reality. ;-)

The only thing that irks me is that I can't see the first posts I ever made due to the 40 page limit thing. It's not a major gripe, but would be a cool feature to have since I can't remember what I said back in the day.

  • 08.24.2006 12:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Achronos
I wasn't that involved in this other than making sure you could search by author in a forum search.

I see only 1 problem with this. I searched my own name and it returned a couple hundred hits. Does that mean it showed every post I have posted in? If so people are going to use that count to see who can spam more thread to increase their hit count... I figured it would only search the thread creators but I know I haven't made more than 20 threads in the public forums

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  • 08.24.2006 12:04 PM PDT
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The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

Posted by: Achronos
Dude, that's just wrong. And my fiance might have something to say about that. :)

In addition, most the congrats should be directed to our other web programmer (who isn't Skiptrace, he's a tester, although he did a lot of good work to test the system out), I wasn't that involved in this other than making sure you could search by author in a forum search.

Posted by: spartakus14
I'd have sex with achronos if I wasn't straight.

Skiptrace is an actual person and not just another login?!

*wanders off and thinks some more*

  • 08.24.2006 12:06 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

No, it was put on hold because we didn't have the manpower to develop and test it. Of course, once Halo 3 development got going, we needed manpower for that too, hence the doubling of the full time development resources (from just me to me and a new guy). One of his first projects was to get the search out the door. We've been adding parts of it for a while now, although much of the code was finally put in last week.

Posted by: Karganeth
The last time a possible search feature was announced, the idea was scrapped because you didn't have sufficient resouces i.e. the servers were not good enough. Am I incorect or have there been some major upgrades?

  • 08.24.2006 12:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
And my fiance might have something to say about that. :)


'grats.

So am i right in assuming it's a 40 page/999 entry limit on search results?

  • 08.24.2006 12:07 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

He thanks you, and may make an appearence later.

we'll be playing with the various limits on the search results and such over time. But (especially for search by author) we had to be careful as things can easily get out of hand, performance wise (some of you have posted A LOT).

Oh, and by the way, please bear in mind that the search operates by making an index of all possible data. This index is refreshed every 24 hours (at about 4:15 AM). So, please be aware that posts and content will not necessarily show up in your search results immediately.

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Thank you other web programmer.

  • 08.24.2006 12:11 PM PDT

Thanks anonymous web dude. I love all the new stuff. Keep up the good work. Sandwiches for all. Web dude gets a Golden Sandwich.

  • 08.24.2006 12:16 PM PDT
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Finally, maybe now the H3 forum won't be a bastion of repeat topics and general tomfoolery!

  • 08.24.2006 12:16 PM PDT