search doenst suck, its a little good tool a lot of people miss and judge wrong....

p.s: what happend to your site? everytime i try to go there it says Server Wasnt Found (dont know what it is in english, as i have an swedish computer, so thats my try)

AtSpace is probably just being uppity. Happens from time to time and then it comes back up.

Bout the Search since we are on the subject, why soesn't it allow us to search by Author.

Well, if FileFront end up getting that user profile thingy set up, we wont need one.

Is there a certain author you would like looked up?

Eh, my best guess regarding the reason it hasn't been implemented, is simply because the network uses a shared database. It's just got way too much data in it, and having maybe fifteen SQL queries run against it by at least fifty people at any one time, would put too much strain on the webserver.

These servers can't even process the forum's member list without slowing down, stalling and/or occasionally flaking out. God only knows what'd happen if they had to run multiple queries against the entire network.

Well pcgamemods had that and they didnt have any submittion polocies thus they had 2x as much files and if you searched by author it didnt slow down.

But liek he said, shared database. Filefront has sites for I'd guess at least 40 games, and over 48 Tb of mods...PCgamemods may have had a few more JKA mods, but betwen it's five games to three dozen on filefront it really stacks up. Especially since most of pcgamemods' files were junky reskins and minor tweaks to already exiring mods.