Search Bar Death, oops bar only have 3 letters Options

[Bonobo]

I am so displeased with the search bar!

dsgisjfglf;bkl;djhboaehroghenrdg

Sorry but I'm so frustrated with it's four letter character limit! With it you cannot search for very very commonly used threads. Here are some examples

• cb4
• users with only parts of names you can remember
• the words: are, and, you, & the

Those are only three examples. And they are pretty commonly used.

PLEASE take the character limit off the search bar

[micron]

I am so displeased with the search bar!

dsgisjfglf;bkl;djhboaehroghenrdg

Sorry but I'm so frustrated with it's four letter character limit! With it you cannot search for very very commonly used threads. Here are some examples

• cb4
• users with only parts of names you can remember
• the words: are, and, you, & the

Those are only three examples. And they are pretty commonly used.

PLEASE take the character limit off the search bar

hi,

the reason why theres a 4 character limit is because its the default (and most effective) setting for mysql fulltext's search. mysql is the database engine behind this site. lowering this value will increase the storage space requirements dramatically, while not necessarily guaranteeing an increase in effectiveness.

i dont know why anyone would search for common three letter words like "are", "and", "you" and "the" as it will return most if not all of the topics ever made here.

and you can search part of a keyword (including names) by using the asterisk (*).

im going to close this topic but if you have any further questions / suggestions regarding this feel free to pm me.