I wrote the original “skin” for the message board, going back to the time when we had a tiny server and demand for bandwidth always exceeded availability.
Since searches are so system intensive, I thought perhaps if we sliced up the search and gave people more options in terms of time ranges, we could make those searches for ancient posts more efficient and tie up less resources. That’s why there’s a zillion choicess in the original skin for search options.
Did that help? Probably not, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
As a test, I have increased the number of search results shown per page to 200. I have increased the number of searches displayed in any one session to 1000. I believe you can adjust to suit yourself in your UserCP settings up to those parameters.
Let’s see how that works for people.
BTW, it’s always more efficient and more effective use Google to search, even on the message board. i need to update the FAQ to indicate our https status but this should still hold true for you.
I will update asap and maybe post in some more prominent spot … but in the meantime …
Searching the message board using Google
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator