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[xxMATTGxx]

You can update outdated stuff at non-peak times.

I'm aware of that and i've not mentioned it since he got access.

Get a plugin or something to deal with it and now show the contents and details of every post thats made.

Yes we can but a lot of us do not have the time or wish to stay at up at these times to update the part of the server. Hence why we have to take it down during peak times, we don't like doing it but if it needs doing it needs doing. Like I said, once we have alternatives then you get your features back.

[FlyingJesus]

So does the activity stream work without forcing a search or something because it just looks like new posts but with all the ugly unnecessary bits added in

[Tomm]

I never really figured out why so many people used vBulletin, especially on larger sites. To me it just seemed rather poorly put to together and it if does turn out to be true that the search is having such a detrimental affect on the server's performance then this really only confirms it.

[scottish]

vBulletin isn't the issue though, many forums a lot larger than habbox with a ton more active members, posts and threads have absolutely no issue with the default search facilities

[Recursion]

You can update outdated stuff at non-peak times.

I'm aware of that and i've not mentioned it since he got access.

Get a plugin or something to deal with it and now show the contents and details of every post thats made.

We have lives, I sure as hell aren't going to be up at 3 - 4am doing software upgrades unless there's payment involved.

I told Matt to disable the search function because I have a few bits of evidence that seem to suggest it is infact the search that kills the forum every so often during the day (which many users complain about...) and apparently vBulletin's search doesn't scale well past 500,000 posts. We disabled search to confirm this theory and hopefully to see if it will be worthwhile moving to a different search function. If it proves false, we'll reenable it tomorrow or the next day and investigations will continue.

[Chippiewill]

So does the activity stream work without forcing a search or something because it just looks like new posts but with all the ugly unnecessary bits added in

It just has to load the last 25 posts on the forum. The new posts link had to identify which posts you'd already read.

vBulletin isn't the issue though, many forums a lot larger than habbox with a ton more active members, posts and threads have absolutely no issue with the default search facilities

A lot of vbulletin running forums that I'm aware of disable the normal search

[scottish]

OcUK forums as an example of the top of my head

Double your posts (nearly 16m) and it's never suffered issues with the search.

(and if its anything related to current users) it has at least 500 members online as well as the hundreds of guests/bots viewing the forum using the search facility at a time.

[Chippiewill]

as well as the hundreds of guests/bots viewing the forum using the search facility at a time.

Guests/bots can't access the search?

[Recursion]

OcUK forums as an example of the top of my head

Double your posts (nearly 16m) and it's never suffered issues with the search.

(and if its anything related to current users) it has at least 500 members online as well as the hundreds of guests/bots viewing the forum using the search facility at a time.

You don't have a clue what OcUK are running on the backend, hardware or software wise.

[scottish]

You don't have a clue what OcUK are running on the backend, hardware or software wise.

I didn't say I did, I said people saying its vbulletins fault when much larger forums deal with it.

What ocuk or habbox run backend i honestly couldn't give two *****

and @Chippiewill; which? some forums enable it, not sure about habbox/ocuk as I never log out to bother checking.