The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

RB's got full-text search?!?

I know FT-search is a BIG plus of our sites, but don't think it's the only thing that makes them worthwhile.

Anyway, grousing that we don't have it running realtime during market hours yet doesn't accomplish anything. We already know we need it and everything we're doing and all the money we're spending is specifically to bring that back. It'll be available as soon as it's physically possible to make it available (which we can finally say is SOON) and not one second earlier. It's simply not possible to pull it off any faster than we possibly can, which is already the speed we're working at.

It's possible to have it working now during market hours, but the cost is too high. Too-frequent timeouts and message number duplications. That's a set of costs that outweigh the benefits.

And it's really comparatively rarely used. Which doesn't matter much. You're preaching to the choir when you tell us that when you need/want it, anything less than realtime is pretty useless for active traders.

So it'll be available again as soon as possible and not a second sooner or later.