lightning will become sentient and attack people

skynet takes over the world and gets his attention grabbed by furry porn. decides to blow up planet. stone age happens, wash rince repeat.

Ferrox is released, then Duke Nukem Forever, then Jesus returns.

Think you got the last two mixed up in order

If this comes true I shall stab you with a shiv made from my titanium spork.

Said spork being the best stocking stuffer I've ever received.

You jinx us all.

Mulitple-choice question time.
FA Search function... it shall be done once we have the following...

1) Clear picture of big foot
2) Aliens live on Oprah
3) When the above two are done.

I'm still waiting for the check/delete all function to return for everyone. Apparently its only a problem with IE, but since I'm not a fan of Firefox' layout I won't switch :x

I don't have any problems with it on IE either.....

I mean Firefox or IE either...

... then ArtPlz! finally goes online. ¦3

I'm wondering why such a basic, simple function is so 'taxing' on these poor servers. It's not like everyone's going to use it all at once. And besides, isn't there something like a google plugin to 'search' through FA?

For me, I miss the username list. It was just a simple list of usernames with their links. That's how I got to initially find everyone long long ago.

Depends on what you want to search for, and how close a match you want. A basic search is a piece of cake, but damned slow when you're going through millions of records. Caching and indexing are the name of the game, as well as alternate matches. That takes work.

The fact that FA has only one database server doesn't help. A database that doesn't scale can go POOF at any second, especially if it's based on MySQL. PHP and MySQL are kind of a pair, so I often wonder.

I second the username list. I understand why search takes a while to implement because I have some coding experience, but there are some very simple interface changes that would take only a day or less to implement and can instantly make any community site 100 times better. Disabling journal notices, for example.

That, and the notices that 'someone has deleted this pic/fav/journal' things that weren't even there before until recently. Either there's some horrible, contrived coding or it was an easy fix for a problem that has risen.

Well, in the end, we're not getting any updates worth mentioning or puts us in the lead. But hey, we're better than hentai foundry, that has a horrid layout and painful submission process. I can't complain. FA is decent. Well, 'now' it's decent. For me at least. Sure, I can't find anyone without fishing through faves and submissions, but it has porn, a fair speed, a note system, and doesn't leech us for basic features (like DA). Almost makes me not mind the ads for gay furry porn..

People can say what they like, but I like the interface design of FA. The table layout for the ads suck, but the tabs above my profile take me where I want to go, and everything else is a link (except the PM box).

FAP was far more difficult despite being Web2.0™ to hell, and DA is a nightmare with the gallery link halfway down the damn page, plus the wretchedly "clever" gallery navigation. DA doesn't work right with JavaScript turned off, and FAP without JS was totally broken.

Frankly, the interface is the main reason I never bothered with DA, SA, and FAP. I'd prefer they spend more time cleaning up the code (my Firefox HTML Validator plugin throws a tantrum), rather than redesign everything to make it more slick and contemporary. They also better not get rid of the blue template. I fail to understand why people like black so much.

Oh, half the time I can't even find the options panel in DA (and I have an old grudge against the puke green EVERYTHING). I was actually 'forced' to buy a subscription because of the viruses and shit in their ads (this was before I found out about Adblock). FAP, eh, well, I thought it was ok. A bit pointless with this place around, but that sunk quick.

And white (or any other color) text on black hurts. Same goes for black text on white. I have to go light-blue layout since the dark is just this weird color with white text on it. It's a bit confusing how the navigation menu (or certain links) 'jumps' from the top to the left panel sometimes depending on what page yer on (like, they couldn't of just put it in one spot). Sometimes I find the 'other people's submissions' page instead of 'my' submissions. But, ehh.. It's not much of a conundrum to me.

my money is on tags
tags are the new search

I'm wondering why images still don't work in journals. It's such an easy thing to implement, and yet I don't think it's worked since 2005.

Spam, security, Goatse.cx, script kiddies, etc. The usual.


But who needs images when you've got color tags and emoticons.

AT LEAST IT'S STILL RELEVANT.

[quote]SELECT * FROM submissions WHERE submissions.submission_description AND submissions.submission_tags LIKE %$tags% ORDER BY submission_date DESC[\quote]


And this is all there is to it for the search function....

A "LIKE" clause on a few million rows?

Yeah, that sounds like it will end well.

I CALL SERVER UPGRADE!

search on FA is an urban myth like the female orgasm

Can't we dream?

Bad things will happen

I'd rather have filters than search.

I swear... if they get rid of the filters I will go catatonic.

I mean being able to filter out tags. Kind of the reverse of the browse filter.

Returns? I don't ever recall the search function ever working (or it's just been THAT long)...

Didn't you use to work for Dionne Warwick?

I bet the farm on this one

I find it funny that they said they'd bring back a search function with the new servers.


Because the reason why Yak couldn't do it, was because the old server's make up was too complicated or something.


HAHAHA.

HAH.


From what he told me, a search function was too hard to do, and from what I saw, tweaking the things that didn't need tweaking was better to do. :B

Who needs a search function when my inbox is ROYALLY RETARDED.

With enough MAD SKILZ ® XD, they could just devote a limited amount of processing to presorting / gradual compiling and running searches.
So it'd just cough up limited search results, so too many searches= slower results.
Probably use a separate less powerful server to do it.
Works fine in general programming but I don't know enough web systems stuff to make one. XD

The donations certainly aren't going into making a search function. >.>;;

Mmm, i really wonder if there are other possible precitions given FA's history

Bees.