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Bapabooiee

vimana said: So, does limiting the number of tags we can search for save any bandwidth?

It'd have absolutely nothing to do with bandwidth, actually. And if I'm reading it correctly, the two-tag search limit is imposed (as Albert said) to give an incentive to upgrading your account - not because of any kind of technical constraint.

Shinjidude

I think the larger argument is that if by enforcing the 2 tag limit, Albert convinces a few members a month to upgrade their accounts, he can raise more money to run the server (which I imagine is pretty costly), than he loses to bandwidth costs by serving the extra pages to members who would no longer be have the incentive to upgrade. I can get behind that. Of course, I'm on the other side of the fence.

kyaaa

I wonder if having more tags available is actually a reason why people would pay though.. And what Shinjidude said might be true as well, but like i said, I'm not into that stuff.
And the meta-tag suggestion would be very helpful too.

vimana

Shinjidude said:
I think the larger argument is that if by enforcing the 2 tag limit, Albert convinces a few members a month to upgrade their accounts, he can raise more money to run the server (which I imagine is pretty costly), than he loses to bandwidth costs by serving the extra pages to members who would no longer be have the incentive to upgrade. I can get behind that. Of course, I'm on the other side of the fence.

Ah, didn't think of it that way.
Though just extra tag search isn't enough of an incentive for me. The loli stuff, maybe...

I still don't want to waste $20 for a dial-up simulator. Though, It's been a bit better lately.

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albert said:
I'll be frank. The limit is kept at two tags mainly because: (1) 95% of tag searches on this site are two tags or fewer; and (2) I want to give people an incentive to pay for upgraded accounts.

There is nothing you can find with a 3+ tag search that you can't find with a 2 tag search. It'll just take longer to go through all the extra pages. I don't consider it unreasonable to ask money in exchange for saving you some time searching. It's a luxury.

There's also nothing on the site that you can't find with a 1-tag search or a 0-tag search if you're patient enough. I understand the choice to make it a premium feature to attempt to bring in money, but that choice is only harming the ability for users to generate the content that brings people to the site (organized image data). YMMV.

RaisingK

roastbeefy said:
To what point and purpose? 6 has almost always been enough for me. 12 seems entirely unnecessary.

For the remainder that "almost always" leaves behind. If there's no big performance impact, why not? Any increase of the limit would be nice.

Log

All it really did was execute really slow searches with a long string of exclusionary tags. (This is really the only reason you would need 12 tags.) I remember them taking minutes to load a single page quite often.

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