Subscribing to forums, faster searching of forums

Is there a better way to subscribe to forums than opening each forum and subscribing using the forum tools menu to subscribe? Such as, a page that lists every forum with a checkbox for subscribe or unsubscribe?

I am asking because the search time is huge.

On the advanced search page, we have an option to search all open forums, and below that is an option to search subscribed forums. If we select the search subscribed forums option, does that affect the simple searches or just the advanced search page searches?

A simple search for telehub will normally list all the classifieds ads that say "near telehub".

If we could get our searches to search only the forums that we want and ignore the ones we don't want more effectively we might be able to cut down on the forum lag some.

Is there a way to subscribe to all the Linden forums with one action, or does one have to go to each forum and subscribe individually? There is an option on the advanced search page for whether to search child forums, but "Linden Forums" appears to not be a forum but instead be a category. When you click on the Linden Forums link the page that appears does not have a forum tools menu with a subscribe to this forum option.

I would like to be able to search only the utilitarian forums like all the content creation forums, the general forum, the technical forums, and not search the classifieds, the group forums, etc., and I'd like to be able to subscribe or not subscribe without having to go to each forum in order to do so.

Bump!

Forum lag is very annoying. Maybe there is something to be done about. Anyone have any ideas?

vBulletin is part of the problem, methinks.


myPHPbb FTW!

I take it this response is intended as dry humor.

The resident run forums like sluniverse, secondcitizen, and sldrama are not moderated and have no rules about personal attacks. The bulk of the posts consist of personal attack and foul language with no content of merit to them.

The suggestion that the forums here are worse than they have been in the past is absurd.

The forums here are extemely useful and primarily conducted in a focused and polite manner, people asking for help, and people offering help.

If you want to avoid the sewage here don't read the Sandbox or General. Stick to the content creation forums, technical, and a few others, and you will have a steady diet of helpful and useful posts.

Moderated forums - or for that matter, unmoderated forums where the users aren't playing like they are professional wrestlers - are an extremely efficient and effective means of communicating.

There are already multiple independent resident run forums, and forums are readily available for free - any resident who wants to start a forum can do so without spending a dime or having any specialized knowledge of forum software.

There are also SL forums at Stratics, I always forget that one, and so apparently does most everyone else.

My thoughts on speeding up the forum searching would be stuff along the lines of - get us some better options for excluding forums. For instance, generally I am not shopping in the forums for anything. I'd like to be able to search the Linden forums, the content creations forums the general forum, NOT the sandbox. There is no easy way to do this.

If the forum lag is due to forum database activity, and not simply the result of sharing a machine that is used for the SL VE, there might possibly be a fairly simple solution to the lag problem that just hasn't been thought of by the forum masters at LL, who have most likely other tasks of greater importance. Someone in the userbase might be able to figure it out.

I know that at one point, results from the archive were being returned even though the options intheesults are only supposed to include matches found in open forums. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

They need to throw another boxen on the forums and do some load balance magic. There is no reason these forums should be straining. They are not THAT big, but the hardware is probably not up to snuff for this community.

PHPBB absolutely collapses on big forums. vBulletin usually isnt too bad in that respect (better with big forums) - but you do need to start tuning and disabling features as the forum gets larger.

UBB threads aparently isnt too bad at huge forums.

Just took a look at a UBB.threads board.. Not bad ;0

http://www.threadsdev.net/forum/ubbthreads.php?Cat=0

That's the UBB.threads modding community board.. Looks like it could be modded well enough to suit the SL community.