From what I've read thus far I dont think we'll be able to have 2 letter search strings

So we lost the ability to have 2 letter searches, but gained the ability to search for any 3 letter string. I think that's a fair trade as there's only a few 2 letter ones (hopefully).
Not sure why you posted that, you can search for any 3 letter search string now.

 

sorry, had a relapse,lol.

 

Most forums will let you search 3 letters by putting a wild card in for the 4th, this forum won't allow it.

What is the harm of allowing 2-3 letter searches anyways. Sure it uses up some bandwidth but what is the harm in it. If someone wants to search for 2-3 letters why not let them??

 

Perhaps you should re-read the some of the posts above yours, in particular this one: https://www.vadriven.com/forums/show...9&postcount=66 but the gist of it is that 3 letter searches are enabled. I'm not sure if wildcards (the * symbol) fall under boolean searches, but if it does it's only enabled for Patrons, which is where your problem would have been in that particular search query.

It has nothing to do with bandwidth and everything to do with server load. The searches are by far the biggest contributor to the slowness on the site, decreasing the number of letters allowed greatly increases the server load. That's not even taking into account making the post index in the database bigger.

There's very few legitimate searches for 1-2 letter words so there's no reason to go that low. 3 letters is where it's staying.

 

did this get turned off b/c it won't show up any matches for any of the excluded words at all??

 

When I search "crx" I get no results. I am retarded or can I not search "crx"

 

how about ps3

 

um...

 

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yeah I'm not getting some 3 letter strings that I know are in some topics