hey guys sorry for the uproar but WHERES THE SEARCH BUTTON I MYSELF DONT LIKE THE WEATHER BUTTON IDEA. WAS IT EITHER OR....OR DID YOU JUST DECIDE WE DONT NEED THE SEARCH BUTTON lol well let me know, clue me in ill be back to look and see what you guys have to say about this im not mad just flustered and kinda sad lol

 

NVM It seems to be disabled.

 

why? lol

 

because everytime it is used the site crawls to a halt. In times of high traffic we disable it so that the site continues to function at a reasonable speed.

 

so do you have intentions of putting it back is this just temporary

 

it's temporary, we do it occasionally when we are getting lots of traffic.

 

o ok cool lol you guys can close this i got my answer or you can leave it up for others to see

 

Why don't you find a way of fixing the problem, instead of removing it. This is when tech sections get filled with useless posts, that the questions have been answered before.

I think that would just make it worse, seeing as more people would be posting because of it.

 

care to pay for the upgrade???

 

It's not a simple issue to just run out and fix. Upgrading software can help, as can upgrading hardware. Part of the problem is that the search function on the forums wasnt built to search through a very large database that is shared between 2 sites with millions of posts.

A lot of the content on TR is index'd in google and sometimes using the google search can find you what you want, it's not always perfect though so for right now, disabling search when things get very loaded is the only option.