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From: Ozzy
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Date: 12/29/2009 9:08:35 AM
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Well there is one option that I really hate in BB. That is our search engine!

When I need to find some player I need to know his name and his surname, both! That is so stupid! What if I remembered only name? Or if I tried to remember both of them but the surname is little bit difficult and then I made mistake, and cant find even if I remember first name correctly !
Search engine should help you to find right player!


And the main problem of this is when I tried to find some players who called like me. I cant to that because I need to know surname!!!!!!

make possible to search only name, or only surname!!!! That is very easy to change...

EDIT: Quit it with the bold and CAPS.
@EDIT: All bold????????

Last edited by Ozzy at 12/29/2009 12:04:34 PM

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125552.2 in reply to 125552.1
Date: 12/29/2009 10:32:53 AM
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That is very easy to change...


I didn't know that you were intimately familiar with BBs code.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
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125552.3 in reply to 125552.2
Date: 12/29/2009 12:03:22 PM
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Well, I'm familiar with many kind of programming and CHANGING that thing is peace of cake ;)

Btw this is the game advantage, and you didn't said anything against... so you agree with my suggestion :)

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125552.4 in reply to 125552.3
Date: 12/29/2009 1:51:23 PM
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Well, I'm familiar with many kind of programming and CHANGING that thing is peace of cake ;)


Actually, it's not.

Btw this is the game advantage, and you didn't said anything against... so you agree with my suggestion


No, that means jack.

FTR, I wouldn't mind being able to search by only first or last name, but no idea if it's technically feasible with server loads and things of that nature.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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125552.5 in reply to 125552.3
Date: 12/30/2009 6:18:37 AM
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Well, I'm familiar with many kind of programming and CHANGING that thing is peace of cake ;)

Changing a bunch of text files may be a piece of cake, yes. Except people don't seem to realize that even the smallest change in BB code should also scale to a living site with thousands of users on at the same time without causing any performance issues.

In the particular case of player search, I would hazard a guess that trying to pull thousands of records instead of hundreds of records from the database, when multiplied by the number of searches conducted daily is anything but a piece of cake where performance is concerned.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
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125552.6 in reply to 125552.5
Date: 12/30/2009 12:32:58 PM
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Yes, that is true. But I strongly believe that BB want to improve it self and to become one of the best browser games.

Search engine like this is useless! For whole these seasons just few times I searched for player in that way (first+last name). How many times did you looking for player in this way?

I just give my suggestion. If BB really want to become "the best", then thing like this shouldn't be problems for developers ;)

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125552.7 in reply to 125552.6
Date: 12/30/2009 12:42:54 PM
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I just give my suggestion. If BB really want to become "the best", then thing like this shouldn't be problems for developers ;)


Repeating it doesn't make it any more true.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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125552.8 in reply to 125552.7
Date: 12/30/2009 10:49:29 PM
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Do you know what is brainstorming and how it works?

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125552.9 in reply to 125552.8
Date: 12/30/2009 11:15:31 PM
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Do you know what is brainstorming and how it works?


No, I don't have a brain.

I'm referring to the easy part.

Clearly it's not easy, and I'm not the only one this time pointing it out.

I'm not the one that can accurately say whether or not such a search would cause load-induced problems or not. I'd love for the answer to be not, of course, but if it is, it is.

NO ONE at this table ordered a rum & Coke
Charles: Penn has some good people
A CT? Really?
Any two will do
Any three for me
Any four will score
Any five are live
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125552.10 in reply to 125552.9
Date: 12/31/2009 6:59:16 AM
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Clearly it's not easy, and I'm not the only one this time pointing it out.


Once long time ago I talked about this with BB-Mark and he pointed out that there would be too much load for servers, that`s why they made search as it is now. And this was at the times BB just dreamed to ever reach 30k users. So my guess would be that now it`s even more impossible then it was long time ago to improve search system as it could course some server crashes if plenty of users would try to search using just 2 letters in surname at the same time...

So I choose crappy search system, but fast BB website.

ZyZla - ZyZlūnas ZyZlavotas ~c(=
From: Ozzy

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125552.11 in reply to 125552.10
Date: 12/31/2009 7:32:10 AM
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Well, for example... what if they don't need to load all players? They can load 20, and after user click "more" then load next 20 :P