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Why 30 seconds between searches?


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Does it actually serve some function to have to wait 30 seconds between searches on the forum? Slight variations of the search terms often turn up qute different results, but having to wait 30 seconds between searches gets very time-consuming. I've never encountered this anywhere else. Couldn't this be done away with?

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It's not a matter of impatience, it's a matter of efficiency.

 

Earlier, I searched using three different search criteria and on any other forum would have taken me approximately 15 seconds instead of over a minute and a half. As it turned out, none of the searches yielded a single result, even though when I eventually found the post I was looking for after clicking through page after page, it contained the words I'd entered in the search. Quite a discouraging waste of time.

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I would expect it's set up that way so as to prevent the database getting bogged down with continually searching for things.

 

It's a very common set up in my experience, as is a "No second post within 2 minutes" type of rule.

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I wish you could simply open a post and read it in less than 30 seconds. Sometimes it is so s..l...o...w...

 

This is the slowest site I come across, though admittedly Im not a member nor go on any other prawn sites. I open everything in a new tab, walk away and come back later. The place got worse with the animated ads, and I know its probably due to connect speeds at my end but theres nothing I can do about that. This place just seems top heavy, and the ads need to dl clean before the threads come up. I get a lot of times out images. If the improtant stuff loaded first I would be happier, but then I guess I would be out of the thread before seeing the adverts for games, brides, ads for discontinued leica, making love to leica, all that important stuff.

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