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Hello smarty,

Because it was buggy and enabled people to search in forums they shouldn't have access to I don't think fulltext is a suitable solution for a big board; it's probably better, but not good enough. There will probably still be locks, and the search results won't be more accurate...

I am more looking for something like xapian, sphinx, lucene.. If anybody has time..

I migrated my forum to utf8 a looong time ago, when it had only a couple of posts, not thinking of what was implied... Now it has millions of posts and it is impossible to roll back... Biggest mistake in a long time Beyond the fact that the topic sometimes get cut, it works quite well though

It's probably only about using a utf8-compatible version of strstr or strcmp or whatever, though

Had th same trouble a loooong time ago. Very very annoying. Not sure it is punbb related though, I think it is related to the search queries being terribly long and exceeding a weird mysql limit, maybe. We solved the problem by adding a limit clause to searches.

Sirena > several things. "Load balancing" could be achieved with mysql proxy, but it's only alpha quality for now.
Then, punbb's search is quite poor (huge tables, lineary growing requests, no weighting of results) - it takes a long time to execute, and therefore locks several tables. If someone posts at the same time someone is searching, nobody will be able to even browse the forum before the search is ended. By putting the searches on another server, we hope to get rid of these locks, before we develop some search based on lucene / sphinxsearch / whatever.

Yep Smartys, thanks, found it. Your fault, it wasn't linked   

This is awesome news - thank you so much. Moving to 1.3 is going to take us months, rewriting the template, probably importing messages, testing, securing, adding modules... I feel a bit relieved this won't have to be in a rush

I have been using Punbb for over 3 years on very small to very large websites. Unlikely to the other comments, this is the worst news I have heard so far.

I am very surprised about various points of this agreement. First, I believe you did not make this announcement public because you knew it would cause a huge reaction from the community, which you thought would not be funded. So, we don't know the amount of the transaction and probably never will, we don't know how it was divided between the team, and we learn it weekds (monthes?) later, although I consider this to be a very important news.

Then, sorry guys, but that company wanted to sell support - why the heck do they need the copyright for this? What I understand is you wanted to make money easily, sold the name, and thought if everything turns wrong, you'd fork it. It is pretty clear to me that they _will_ use that copyright to make money out of punbb. You usually don't buy things you don't want to use. And I don't see anything good there.

And finally, I am sick of that "if you don't like it, it's GPL, fork it". Punbb is like many other projects, 20% of the people involved do 80% of the code, and the other 80% 20% of the code. The 80% know the 20% can't maintain a fork, so basically they tell them to fuck off.

So no, I can not be happy with this news, neither the way this was handled, and people who are should seriously think about it again.

We successfully passed the million posts a couple of weeks ago

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DB is nearly 1GB I think.
We are developing a sphinxsearch plugin to help us with searches which become a pain (slow and irrelevant) the more the forum grows - and also a couple of other plugins we will release when they are done

Thanks to the punbb team for the great piece of software (but searches sucks, and cool uris would be nice )

Of course blind people can and should be able to access forums. The question thing is accessibility-friendly and the question with the lemon was only an example. Questions on our forum are like "Write "blue" ", and it works perfectly well for now.