Searching the forums? How?

[hafrogman]

While I respect that decision this is the first forum I've subscribed to that does this. And I am subscribed to more forums that I can count. But perhaps the hosters of this forum have slightly worse hardware then the others then.

Greetings,

Mostly it's just a question of forum size/use vs. business size. You'd be hard pressed to find another forum like this:

Threads: 219,636, Posts: 4,548,203, Members: 81,208

that wasn't also tied to some business or other. ENWorld is effectively just a fan site that grew ridiculously huge.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Even better: use site:enworld.org together with your search term.

Ah... the google API.... you are evil, I hate you, but I am forced to use use because free information searching without having your searches queried by IP is a fantasy.

 

[Umbran]

A search uses bandwidth?

No. Hafrogman has it right - searching forums our size is ridiculously expensive, in terms of processing power used vs processing power available on a fan site budget.