nortnil
May 22 2007, 04:36 AM
When and why did the search engine for the forums start to suck so badly? You used to be able to search individual sub-forums. Search by user name. All sorts of features that made it easy to find and fix your problems. Now with the 360 it is even worse when you are still ghetto like me and working on original xboxes and half of your search results are for the newer console.
Xombe
May 22 2007, 06:31 AM
Q: When Did The Search Engine Start To Suck So Much?
A: Right about the same time our members stopped reading the pinned topics.
(Note, the Q&A structure is a less than subtle hint that your answers are in the FAQ of this very forum.)
(Which is pinned.)
Many lament the change in search engines, myself among them.
Many more lament the number of needless posts that could have been avoided through a brief reading of carefully prepared, existing threads, as these are the kinds of things that stress the server... and force the removal of highly regarded features to make way for more unnecessary threads.