if they allowed search for 3-ltr words, could tie up small server farm with multiple requests.  I've noticed forum pages always load slow on my 125 Mbps conn.

however, just tried google: "the" gets >25 billion results and "koi" gets >82 million, both in <1 sec.

These searches worked fine RIGHT HERE ON THIS SITE just TWO WEEKS AGO., No - I won't accept that it's a performance issue when it was already working. The programmer is incompetent.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)