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You're already ruining a pretty good thread. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Yes, the search limitation truly sucks.

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I'm guessing this is done to cut down on bandwidth costs.

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I'm guessing this is done to cut down on bandwidth costs.

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I'm guessing you're right. But this is a huge problem. Now everyone will start new threads instead of searching. How will that impact bandwidth costs?

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I'm guessing this is done to cut down on CPU/db load.

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I'm guessing this is done to cut down on CPU/db load.

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I have no idea what this means? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I'm guessing this is done to cut down on bandwidth costs.

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I'm guessing you're right. But this is a huge problem. Now everyone will start new threads instead of searching. How will that impact bandwidth costs?

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Did anyone ever really do a search before starting a new thread, or is that just something we yelled at newbs to do. Personally I only ever search when looking for a thread I've already read.

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Searching the archives of bajillion posts isn't cheap in terms of computing power, especially running multiple searches at the same time. I suspect this is why they added the recent 6 month time frame limitation and why this new limitation has been added.

But I agree, it sucks.

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Why do I get the feeling that in one fell swoop of upgrade, well intentioned forum providers have eviscerated three diligent weeks of [censored]'s work?

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Did anyone ever really do a search before starting a new thread, or is that just something we yelled at newbs to do. Personally I only ever search when looking for a thread I've already read.

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I do it. I also do a lot of searching in the strategy forums. It will really suck if we can't search in those forums. And the impact on the books forum will be insane.