New posts can arrive concurrently during the time that you're verifiying that your own post # is less than 10000.

That's not the race, though. As part of the 10000th post going through, the thread header is flagged with "closed." The checking happens when the next post is trying to be written, and if that flag has flipped, no go.

And it used to be much tighter, I swear. The time stamps on those post-10000 posts are pretty far apart.

If that's all taking 13 seconds, something's up somewhere...

And it used to be much tighter, I swear.

It was. I've only seen it go over once since you implemented it, and that was a single extra post.

eta: Okay looking at the closed threads list shows a couple three threads that have an extra post, and the gap on a couple of them is 5 or six seconds.

Does the search function only work on the text of posts? Or is it possible to search for posts by user name?

Experimentation seems to indicate a no on the 2nd question.

You can sort of play with your terms, so that you're more likely to find a post made by a certain user name though, aurelia. Look at the top of a post. See how they're always [username]space[hyphen]space[date]?

If I were to search for a post you made, to minimize the number of hits on posts by other people, which just contained your name, I would enter: your name, then a space, then a hyphen, then another space in the search field, like this:

aurelia -

That should cut down on the number of times I come across your name in posts. Most of the hits I get should be entries posted by you.

It doesn't seem to work that way, Cindy. Trying that in the latest natter gives me the posts that have my name in the text of the post, but not any of the other posts I made. (Which is the same result as just searching "aurelia" without the hyphen). IOW the top part (header?) of the post is not included in the search, which would indicate a Yes to my first question above.

I managed to find what I needed anyway.

Darn. It doesn't even work with quote marks around the "aurelia -". I would have sworn that I tried this and it worked.

I must have done a threadsuck and a "find" with my P.C. control+F thingie. Sorry.

The search currently applies to text bodies only, yes. There's no huge problem with searching on poster name. Well, apart from interface design.

I think I was the problem on searching on poster name. I'd rather we didn't. Insert boilerplate comment about how that's just me here.

Tangentially, why does that bother you, Liese?

Well, it makes it marginally harder for creepy post-stalking. It means someone'd have to put in some effort to go find everything I've ever said. On other boards I use author search functions, so I suppose I'm hypocritical. You know how Nilly feels stalkery about isolating Tim's posts. For me it user search functions kinda feel like that for everybody.

Because we're so conversation based, there are fewer times when a post should stand without context. I dunno.

On the other hand, I do see the usefulness of it. I just kinda don't like it.