# Is it just me, or did the poor vbsearch get worse? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024 "2009-08-12T07:19:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 15 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/1 "2009-08-12T07:19:34Z")
A thread I search for a lot is the random picture thread in off topic. [http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35877](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35877) I always used to find it by just throwing “random picture” into the quick search drop down and it would be one of the first 10 results since it’s a pretty active thread. Now that doesn’t return the thread I’m looking for. In fact, it only gets 26 threads found, none of them a thread who’s thread title is “Random Picture Thread”. ??? So I tried an advanced search for threads with the word, “random” in the title. Still nothing. Tried “Random” in case somehow the search magically became case sensitive, still nothing. I remember BluBalls started the thread so I did a search for threads started by user and bingo, there is it. Did the index get screwed up in the move? WTF? ---
### Author: ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/2 "2009-08-12T07:22:38Z")
I was searching for “Watch Crew” the other day and NOTHING came up. ---
### Author: ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/3 "2009-08-12T07:24:26Z")
Server issues boys. I’ll let the Monkey chime in on this one… Edit: from what I know, we are switching servers/ hosts (again) to a much more reliable, tested, server, and this is just a side effect. but I’m just the help, I could be wrong. ---
### Author: ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/4 "2009-08-12T07:25:01Z")
The search function really is maddening. ---
### Author: ![Geoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geoff/32/6104_2.png) [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/5 "2009-08-12T07:26:25Z")
agreed. ---
### Author: ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/6 "2009-08-12T07:32:39Z")
![http://bp2.blogger.com/_WUyCyzzdkGI/ReipbSqzdfI/AAAAAAAAAOg/1Mnraei_iAU/s400/computer_monkey.jpg](http://bp2.blogger.com/_WUyCyzzdkGI/ReipbSqzdfI/AAAAAAAAAOg/1Mnraei_iAU/s400/computer_monkey.jpg) ---
### Author: ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/7 "2009-08-12T07:33:35Z")
i searched for the sightings thread for a while before i found it… ---
### Author: ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/8 "2009-08-12T07:34:58Z")
Just part of the updates. Learn to love it. ---
### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/9 "2009-08-12T07:36:05Z")
Yeah, the forum search has never been very good, but at least before if you knew the thread you were looking for you could find it. Glad to hear it’s just part of the move. ---
### Author: ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/10 "2009-08-12T08:35:48Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Just part of the move. Learn to love it. Fixed 😉 Sorry guys. Shouldn’t be much longer though. ---
### Author: ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/11 "2009-08-12T08:37:41Z")
it probably hasn’t been indexing as often as it should ---
### Author: ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/12 "2009-08-12T08:41:44Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > it probably hasn’t been indexing as often as it should The thread in question was started in 2007. 😉 ---
### Author: ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/13 "2009-08-12T10:27:18Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > The thread in question was started in 2007. 😉 I am not sure that is how it works… It REALLY needs to be done nightly. My guess is that they are on a shitty host. Indexing is cpu intensive. If they fired the process off, it would probably bring the site to a standstill. ---
### Author: ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/14 "2009-08-12T12:10:40Z")
the terrible search has been a plague for most VB 3.8 forums. The worse is BF.c, I can not find what I am looking for on there ever. If I like a thread or think it will become useful sometime I just post in it and go through my posts ---
### Author: ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr) #### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-poor-vbsearch-get-worse/72024/15 "2009-08-12T12:13:06Z")
I turned off post indexing to attempt to make the site run on this host. On the new server I went ahead and reindexed ALL posts and it took like 5 minutes and the server load didn’t even move. We will be completing the move this week, and all will be better.