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Search Back End Failure....
4 years ago
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With the growing amount of images on FA, and the pics posted per day with specific keywords, the search function only going back 3,000 images is starting to become more of a hindrance.
Example.
Search term of Rubber
This cultivates somewhere in the realm of 225,000 images
Organizing by A/Descending you're getting the first and last images with the keyword. Using Date, Relevance and Popularity, the maximum number of images you can effectively search winds up being only 18,000 of those (Cross over images for each parameter ignored) winding up being visible due to the limited search. This mean that only 8% of images containing rubber as a searchable term can be found, leaving the other 92% unable to be seen without going through hundreds to thousands of profiles and perusing a gallery, removing the reason a search function exists.
I've not looked into how much FA has grown over the years, but it's clear that it's one of the more stable (Nowadays at least XD) pillars of furry art and the community. Another 10 years out and search function will only drop in % of returns when searching, assuming Rubber doubles to 500K results, the return will only be 4% of total images and drop as time goes on.
1 Month. Give or take a week due to images that are uploaded with the Rubber keyword. That's how far back the search allows you to see images. Obviously obscure/niche kinks can allow you to see back a longer period due to the small amount of images posted on said subject. Keywords and themes that are popular will also suffer this same 'fate' as it were, being limited/stove piped via the search engine/limits. With 16 years of being around, searching within a month of relevant keywords winds up being 0.5% of possible total search results. Iterating again, years out and a speculative doubling, the time window will drop to 2 weeks as well as 0.25% of total searches as it related to time.
I'm also no expert in what it will take to institute a search function that will cover more, how much the servers will need in terms of hardware or adjusting coding to get this done.
From purely an accessibility and a discovery stand point, having less than 10% of what is available for a popular/widely used terms seems sub-par to me. Not meaning any of this to be pissing on anyone or the site at all, it's just been a growing thought I've had for quite a while that seems like something needs to be updated/graded as the site grows. XD just trying to help everyone fap more easily :P
Example.
Search term of Rubber
This cultivates somewhere in the realm of 225,000 images
Organizing by A/Descending you're getting the first and last images with the keyword. Using Date, Relevance and Popularity, the maximum number of images you can effectively search winds up being only 18,000 of those (Cross over images for each parameter ignored) winding up being visible due to the limited search. This mean that only 8% of images containing rubber as a searchable term can be found, leaving the other 92% unable to be seen without going through hundreds to thousands of profiles and perusing a gallery, removing the reason a search function exists.
I've not looked into how much FA has grown over the years, but it's clear that it's one of the more stable (Nowadays at least XD) pillars of furry art and the community. Another 10 years out and search function will only drop in % of returns when searching, assuming Rubber doubles to 500K results, the return will only be 4% of total images and drop as time goes on.
1 Month. Give or take a week due to images that are uploaded with the Rubber keyword. That's how far back the search allows you to see images. Obviously obscure/niche kinks can allow you to see back a longer period due to the small amount of images posted on said subject. Keywords and themes that are popular will also suffer this same 'fate' as it were, being limited/stove piped via the search engine/limits. With 16 years of being around, searching within a month of relevant keywords winds up being 0.5% of possible total search results. Iterating again, years out and a speculative doubling, the time window will drop to 2 weeks as well as 0.25% of total searches as it related to time.
I'm also no expert in what it will take to institute a search function that will cover more, how much the servers will need in terms of hardware or adjusting coding to get this done.
From purely an accessibility and a discovery stand point, having less than 10% of what is available for a popular/widely used terms seems sub-par to me. Not meaning any of this to be pissing on anyone or the site at all, it's just been a growing thought I've had for quite a while that seems like something needs to be updated/graded as the site grows. XD just trying to help everyone fap more easily :P
-Take this all with a grain of salt, I'm not a programmer.