Tedium has nothing to do with, being methodical has everything to do with it. I cannot simply turn off the functionality of the boards, monitor the server for two days and *poof* exactly pin the down the problem with the server.

The focus right now is the forum software's search functionality (actually adding and deleting terms to/from the searchindex) and it may be the fault of the database software behind the scenes, not just the forum software.

To everyone that are publicly bitching, moaning, complaining and whining about search being down, or feel that tackling the server problems is somehow trivial, check out what I have been dealing with here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=37174

Am I asking you to sypathize? No.

Am I asking you to be patient? Yes.

When will search be available again? When I am confident that we have tackled the server problems, no sooner. If that is not a good enough answer for you, I will gladly refund your membership fee.

 

has returned...as of 3/26/02...still no new news on full-blown search, but it's a start.