I will not be renewing primiumFollow

My premium membership is up in 3 days. I would like to renew, but I feel that I should put my money where my mouth is. For the duration of most of my membership, bookmarks have been down, as has forum search.

Not having bookmarks is annoying, but forum search is one of the biggest to have a premium account. Two of the three months that I've been a premium member this function has been down and nothing has been said or done.This is the only information we've been given, save for the faint hope that, with the new servers, search would be enabled again. Well the new servers have come and have been installed, but we still don't have search.

If you are working on fixing this problem please let us know. Just leave a little note on the News page, or on the main forum. I love this site and would like to continue supporting it, a little communication is all I ask.


Edit: misspelled premium in the title >.<

Edited, Fri Feb 4 09:07:12 2005 by JenovasPuppet

I guess you can either look at the functionality that isn't working, or the fuctionality that is.

Frankly, bookmarks are something you can still do using your internet browser.

As for the search function, yeah, it's unfortunate that isn't available.

However, regardless, there is still a ton of information, and given how much I use to forums to make my work day go by and how many times I'm here accessing NPC locations or quest information, I feel the site deserves the incredibly low amount they ask for premium.

It IS putting my money where my mouth is...but paying for a site I use quite a bit.

Can't you limit the search to finding the first...say 100 posts? If that limit is reached throw in a warning that the search term is too broad?

I dunno how the coding is, but that's how a few search programs I've encountered run.

Thank you very much for your response. I'm thrilled to know that you've been working on this and, now that I know the situation, understand why you can't give a specific time as to when it'll be back up.

Good point. Perhaps a better idea would be to change the message from "Forum Search temporarily disabled due to high load" and adding something like "We are currently addressing the situation." Just a little extra line so that we that something's being done. I would have assumed that it was being worked on, but after so long, faith wavers.
The ironic thing is, I'd know this if I could search

Once again, the response from Allakhazam is greatly appreciated. Thanks to the rest of you as well for your information.

Edited, Fri Feb 4 19:10:20 2005 by JenovasPuppet

Search for the Asylum only?

We won't abuse it, honest!

someone will search for GFY or FTFY and take our cluster down, I'm sure ....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Aallakhazam.com+%22gil%22&btnG=Search


Edited, Sun Feb 6 02:49:56 2005 by Lamnethx

I've actually seen their servers... in a sense. There was some documentary type thing on 60minutes (I think) about google.

Lets just say they have probably 50x more than other sites. I think they said something like a warehouse in size, all with servers. Somehow I doubt allakhazam has that.