Forum Upgrade Request

The forums used to have a Search function but it was removed for some reason around E3 likely to account for the mass influx of users and the load it would put on the servers. Presently the only option is to search the whole Waypoint site then we have to scroll through hundreds of results and/or forum pages just to find something relevant. The Search feature needs to be re-enabled.

As a whole the forums are a disorganized mess where topics are inefficiently lumped together under one main section. There really needs to be sub-sections to keep topics more organized along with the request to move option that other forums have where users can suggest moving unrelated topics to a more fitting section.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? If this is a double post I blame the aforementioned lack of a forum search function.

You can actually use google to search for threads on here.

Search was nuked as one of several measures taken in an attempt to alleviate severe bandwidth issues. The site used to go offline almost regularly due to these issues. If memory serves, we lost Search around the time of the last E3.

Things have been better lately. I’ve seen the occasional person respond to threads like this saying that Search will come back, but I don’t know if that’s hopeful speculation or if 343i’s said anything on the matter.