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Searching this forum is a pain. I type a search term, get a page of results. if I try to go to the second page, I get a message that says "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in 22 seconds."

Obviously this is due to search being expensive against the backend database. My guess it it's something like "SELECT * FROM posts WHERE body LIKE "%$TERM% ORDER BY date". There are ways to solve this (https://www.elastic.co, https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/, etc).

Please make this better.

EDIT: ok ok I just saw TazKristi's pinned message. Sorry for the spam. You can still make this better though, but maybe it's an investment you don't want to make. And if the issue is bots, there are ways to mitigate being DDOS'd by them (throttling repetitive search terms, source IP blocks, etc) that doesn't impact everyone.

I’ve found that exiting the forum and using Google with the words “Spyderco forum” appended to the topic works surprisingly well.

sethwm wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:53 am

Searching this forum is a pain. I type a search term, get a page of results. if I try to go to the second page, I get a message that says "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in 22 seconds."
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EDIT: ok ok I just saw TazKristi's pinned message. Sorry for the spam. You can still make this better though, but maybe it's an investment you don't want to make. And if the issue is bots, there are ways to mitigate being DDOS'd by them (throttling repetitive search terms, source IP blocks, etc) that doesn't impact everyone.

Agreed. Using Google, or other search engines may work if you're searching some relatively obscure word, but the lack of filtration makes it at least equally as frustrating as the Forum's search function if, for example, you're looking for a thread started by a specific member with a specific, but unfortunately common, word in the title.

Coastal wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:02 pm

I’ve found that exiting the forum and using Google with the words “Spyderco forum” appended to the topic works surprisingly well.

This.
I actually don´t use the search function of the forum anymore, but just Google...