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I love coming here, but why can't you do more than one search every few minutes? The search function is so bad as is, that if I want to go back and try to narrow it a bit I can't do it right away... Which in turn makes me want to use the search function even less.

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That would be a setting set by the owner, Doubleskulls.
I would hazard a guess that was it to designed to reduce load on the database, and is a relic of old forum software.

I have approached Doubleskulls with the idea of updating the software to something a little more modern (better search engine, layout, like buttons etc). Something I would be willing to do as I've done it before on other forums, but I never got a reply :(

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That was my guess as well. The search function is so tough to manage/navigate, that being denied going back to tick a "topic title only" -box will probably make less people use it, creating double posts of stuff more often.

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My guess would be what Lunchmoney said, but I've never experienced that issue, and I often go back and refine my searches (will have to experiment next time on the PC).
Or it might just be a php thing, I don't know, but whatever it is it's outside the access the admins have.

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Darkson wrote:My guess would be what Lunchmoney said, but I've never experienced that issue, and I often go back and refine my searches (will have to experiment next time on the PC).
Or it might just be a php thing, I don't know, but whatever it is it's outside the access the admins have.
You may be exempt from the time limit as an admin.

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Possibly, I've honestly no idea.

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This is for newer versions, so maybe old version has no configuration options, or they are somewhere else... yet worth a try if Darkson et al match the "Administrator" mentioned in the page and at least can see the current values https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... al_server/

One note, the text about server load is wrong. Unix machines can have loads above 1 (it measures something else than raw CPU usage). And it was reported so it should be fixed someday https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10317

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The (now deleted) spam post did reflag this topic for me though, and I found the setting Steam Ball posted, so this should now not happen (can't promise though!).

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Wow, the bug was closed as "won't fix". I hope it was fixed but someone clicked the wrong place, and not that correct documentation is not important.

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