Am I doing something wrong?
I just resubscribed to the dope after a six month hiatus. Now I have to wait 300 seconds between search requests? Thats five minutes!
I thought perhaps after six months, subscription fees, and seemingly more advertising all the time the Dope would see some sort of boost in performance.
By the way I’m typing this rant mostly to kill time between my search requests…
Ha! You’re just lucky you missed the loss of the search function all together.
Sucker.
Welcom back! Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about.
The same except for the 5 minute search. Oh and the soon to be free again thingee.
Thanks for the earworm… And now I’ll be thinking about Gabe Kaplan’s hot-for-the-70s wife all day too.
TPTB swear that things will be improving shortly with the installation of a server dedicated to handling searches, and when that happens, the time between searches will be reduced.
And tuppence a week, and jam every other day.
Next he’ll be wanted more porridge.
“Tomorrow, tomorrow
They’ll upgrade it tomorrow
It’s only a dream away!”
“It’s very good jam,” said the Queen.
“Well, I don’t want it today, at any rate.”
“You couldn’t have it if you did want it,”, the Queen said. “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam today,’” Alice objected.
“No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: today isn’t any other day, you know.”
Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
I’m going to bring manufacturing jobs back to Detroit. Plus, I have an aunt who lives where you are, and she taught me how to watch people pump gas in your area.
I think you’ve just violated the “don’t be a jerk” rule.
Cute little redheaded snots with annoying voices GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
I already gave up trying to post a link to help someone, because after my third search I struck out. I wasn’t spending anymore time fucking with that.
This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friends. Some people started reading it not knowing what it was and now they will be thinking about it forever-- just because. . …
Never jam today.
Oh, well, so what.
It annoys me too, a little, but it’s OK if it helps board performance. Not that I’m sure it does, but since they’re going back to free membership, it doesn’t seem right to complain.
Maybe someday they’ll improve the search function so searches are categorized as to difficulty and allow easy searches to be run more often. For instance, a search of just thread titles is presumably less resource intensive than one that searches the thread texts, and a search over the last week is presumably easier than one over all available threads.
As Bob Marley never used to say…