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Yep, search uses WILDLY less memory than loading in flat mode, at least for things with a lot of replies. That said, we used to instantiate an extra 1-3 ActiveRecord objects per reply loaded prior to my fixes, and we no longer do the thing via the Magic Of SQL, so that's been helping. I've considered doing the same to all the post list pages, but there's a lot of them and the requirement to use 25 per page helps a ton. At some point it starts turning into a code cleanliness / readability tradeoff.

Things I want search to ultimately do:
- A Browse mode with filters, which is basically what we have today. "Find all Silmaril threads containing Demon Cam", "find all completed threads with a Miles instance", etc.
- A Search mode where you can search for specific posts or replies for text. Will also have filters, but will apply to the searched object, not to the whole thread. (E.g. right now if you search "holed a planet" and "Cam", you would find all replies containing that text in threads where Demon Cam had ever posted, rather than all replies containing that text that were actually posted by Demon Cam). Can take a "just within this post" argument to solve "search replies in this thread".
- Ability to search for more things, like tags, or characters and templates by name/description

If I'm missing search cases please tell me? But it will just to do list until memory behaves.

Shoal wrote:does the search feature use less memory than loading a large post in flat mode? it seems like there are enough fields in the search feature to narrow it down to just a few threads, that might work for pedro?

I typically don't want to find posts with a thing, i typically get some keyword and want to find all mentions of it on a given post to see whether a certain topic has come up. For example, I wanted to know if Thea hadn't heard about the Wizarding War, so I (Throne) loaded the post in flat mode and looked up the words "war" "hate" "muggleborn" "prejudice" to see if it was.

Design question: Is there an appropriate place to say what canons, if any, a thread spoils; the nature of the spoiler (plot? setting?); and how far into a serial canon it spoils? Is this appropriate for thread warnings?

It's really weird that warnings and stuff are in the pencil of the top post, I expected that to just be for like its text and stuff and the warnings to be in a cog or something.

I think the pencil is "all the stuff you would set about the post while creating it in the first place", approximately, and therefore warnings are in it.

I kind of expect the things for just the original poster to be in a separate button from the things shared by all authors.

That would make some amount of sense, but isn't how it turned out to work. (I do like the fact that all of the things settable when composing the post are editable when editing the post. That is a good.)

Request: show First Unread links for threads on /boards pages (and really everywhere, e.g. user/template/character pages would be nice too). My use case is that there are some continuities (e.g. Rapid Nova) that I catch up on sporadically and it would be easier to be able to just open up all the threads to the point I stopped reading them if I could do that all at once from the continuity page instead of hunting for them in Opened/Unread Threads (which would also be made easier if I could sort by continuity ;) ).

+1 very very +1

The unread links thing is on the list. Feel free to vote it up or provide more information on which particular places you would and would not like it. (It sounds like you want it everywhere? That is useful information. :P)

Sorting the unread page is also on the list (and should extend to the 'opened threads' page I think?). Again, feel free to vote for it – there are a lot of small things that we don't seem to be focusing on properly, and feedback is helpful.

Edit: … Okay you need an account to vote and comment so actually maybe never mind on that unless people don't mind getting Bitbucket accounts. (Do still provide comments here though and I'll try to add them to the applicable organized sections over there – it's easier to deal with things when it's organized.)