New ezboard features!!!11!! ... er ... woopie?
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  • Posted On: Jun 11 2004 9:08pm
Latest message in my ezInbox.

Next Wednesday we are introducing a brand new version of our highly popular search feature, Forum Find. You may know that Forum Find is the best way for people to find your board on ezboard. Well, we’ve been working hard to deliver an even better Forum Find and can’t wait for you to experience the difference.

Not only have we made keyword searching much more versatile; we’ve also added popular categories and keyword searching within those categories so your community can be found more easily and with greater frequency.

As an Admin, we also wanted to make you aware that because this is a completely new board search engine, your community will not be listed in the new Forum Find until you choose a board category in the Forum Find Control Center.

Of course, we will carry over your Community Description from the previous version but in order to be found in the new Forum Find, you will need to go to your Control Center and select the best category and add up to ten keyword or short phrases that describe your community – it should only take you a couple minutes. After that any of the millions of ezboard members will be able find your community. If you would like to get prepared in advance click here for a screen shot of the new Forum Find Settings page.

We’ll let you know the minute the new Forum Find is released via a Smart Global Announcement so you can update your settings and make your community searchable.

Stay tuned,

Your ezboard team


Forumfind. Gee, just what we've always wanted.

How about a real forum search feature, so people can find the threads they want in just a few clicks, and not have to use a google search or page painfully through every page? No, it would be too much to ask.

I understand that ezboard has a monster task on hand in moving to a new database format. It's just that the new search feature has been in the works for easily over a year, yet nothing has happened. In fact, nothing ever seems to happen, except features get broken every time the do a minor update.

The only thing ezboard is good at is keeping their servers online.
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  • Posted On: Jun 12 2004 5:58am
That's kind of one of the most important things, though, eh Kas?
Posts: 5387
  • Posted On: Jun 12 2004 6:23am
Errrrr... ezBoard is good at keeping their servers online? Anyone remember the page cannot be displayed errors? Or pub33? Ezboard is good at srambling to keep their serves from being down for more then 2 days at a time, but a large percenatage of that has less to do with effective management then it does to do with sheer luck.
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  • Posted On: Jun 12 2004 10:05pm
Keeping their servers online is different from having critical server errors.

If you can access the board, the server is online. Beyond that, it's a different kind of error. Despite the page cannot be displayed errors, the exceeding slowness at times, and other numerous problems, the servers were online.

However, to have a good message board service you need more than a server connected to the internet, and what used to be second-grade software running.
Posts: 1087
  • Posted On: Jun 13 2004 3:59am
I also noticed its not pub33 anymore, but p074.

Whats up with that? What happened to pub??? And why was it replaced with p???

I realize this happened while I was recovering from surgery, but whats the deal behind the change?
Posts: 7745
  • Posted On: Jun 13 2004 4:22am
ezBoard moved to a new datacenter, I believe. New servers, the whole shlabang. In the process I guess they added some stuff.

The pub33 URL still forwards you though.
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  • Posted On: Jun 14 2004 2:33am
Yeah, I know. The pub33 link is still in my favorites on my Vaio.

Just like pub80.ezboard.com/bthegiovannifamily forwards me to pub227.ezboard.com/bthegiovannifamily ... and just like pub27.ezboard.com/bbde forwards me to pub205.ezboard.com/bbde ...

I also noticed some are still pub??? on a new server while others were changed to p???