All posts.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

Is there a way to view all posts?

I've asked an admin and it seems impossible but is a way to do it.

I think basically, just extending the 8 pages to a much larger figure would do?

 

Basically, can this be extended in some way?

[Romy]

Why does it matter so much?

[jimmy_jim]

Here you go. You just need to manually search your posts by author, shows up to 40 pages :wink:

[The Observer]

Here you go. You just need to manually search your posts by author, shows up to 40 pages :wink:

 

Just did that. Doesn't show all my posts tbh, is it limited at 40 pages?

[obfuscator]

Same here, looks like it's limited to 40 pages.

[n_odie]

If you want to go further back than the 40 pages, possibly just change the date range?

[Vulxai]

I tried that. I went from September 10, 2006 til May 17, 2010, and it still only went to 40 pages (around April 18, 2009 is the last one it shows).

[tripsis]

I tried that. I went from September 10, 2006 til May 17, 2010, and it still only went to 40 pages (around April 18, 2009 is the last one it shows).

Then perhaps try from September 10, 2006 to 18 April, 2009? :)

[Vulxai]

I tried that. I went from September 10, 2006 til May 17, 2010, and it still only went to 40 pages (around April 18, 2009 is the last one it shows).

Then perhaps try from September 10, 2006 to 18 April, 2009? :)

 

It came up with no results.

[tripsis]

Well then I'm out of ideas :P

[obfuscator]

Eh the search function on these boards (and the phpbb ones as well) has always been less than ideal. The most comprehensive way to get all the posts would be just do do a select statement from the database, but obviously this is out of the question for forum software because of the massive amount of posts. There may be search feature improvements with the new version of IPB, perhaps an admin would know about that.

[sarg1010]

I'm not entirely sure this would work, but why not try setting the date search to [month], 2004 - [month] 2007? Or something along those lines.

[Mil]

You can try it out yourself instead of asking him to ;)

 

And also, IPB 3.1 plans to have a search overhaul: http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-4573-ipboard-310-dev-update-search-overhaul/

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

I don't want to see only 40, I want to be able to access all my posts.

IPB is customizable, as with all forums - couldn't you just change the number 40 to 99999 pages? i'm sure that would do the job.

[obfuscator]

It's not that easy. The number 40 may well be defined so that the the function doesn't slow down the server; search features of all kinds tend to have a high memory footprint especially with a database as large as the one for this forum.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

I don't understand, all the posts are saved somewhere - moving them all to one place should be easy.

[obfuscator]

The posts are saved in a database. Let me give you an overview of how it works.

 

A database is a collection of tables that hold information. The table where posts are stored is called the "posts" table or something similar. We'll look at that.

 

This "posts" table would have a few fields: Probably "poster name" "post date" and "post text". So this post I'm making right now would read something like "y_guy_4_life", "2010/05/20 13:51", "text I've posted".

Ordinarily, it is easy enough to tell the database: "give me every entry in the posts table that has "hextriplet" as the "poster name". However, the posts table for this forum has over 4 million entries. It would take a huge amount of time for the server to check the database and return all of that, at the same time having to provide all types of other forum services. This is why the search feature has been limited, and probably doesn't even use a database statement of that type.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

Then a limit must be imposed if it is causing a problem.

[obfuscator]

A limit has been imposed, the search feature available to the users has been restricted. I don't know what you want here.

[VEGHATERMEATLOVER]

A time limit.

Surely it's a bit ridiculous that we can't access our posts?

[obfuscator]

Unfortunately, that's life.

 

The queries to the database already have a time limit, it's probably about 2 milliseconds. Any query that will take longer than that just won't happen.

 

As Mil said, IPB 3.1 has a search feature overhaul. Perhaps then you will get the results you want.