Having it come up in history is not something I worry about. It's having the next law student-- some secret Buffy fan-- next to use the computer start to type in "bust" or something, buffistas is suggested, they click through and become entranced. Particularly considering I post under a name I am the only female law student to carry.

I posted this the last time this came up, but there's a significant percentage of non-expert users who use their search tool, be it Google or Yahoo or whatever their ISP provides as their default homepage, as their address bar. I think it may have something to do with the search box being on the page itself, rather than in the toolbar, and also with the fact that search typically is more forgiving of a typo or slightly wrongly phrased request than the address bar is.

Does everyone else see my tagline as way lower than it should be? WTF?

It looks normal to me, Michele. Did you try resizing the window?

Are you sure? Does the address bar history have all the pages you've read at buffistas.org, for instance?

Yup. Until the last-300-sites cutoff. And, to check, I just clicked on your profile, closed the window, and typed shaw into the address bar, and it suggested Shawn's profile, with the attached URL, to me.

And only urls typed into the address bar pop up, not hotlinks. If you hadn't figured that out by the middle of your post-- I couldn't tell.

I just tried this out. I typed "www.lat" into my address bar. A few sites were suggested, but not www.latimes.com. Then I went to google, did a search for "www.latimes.com", and clicked on the link to the LA Times. Then I closed that window, opened a new one, and typed "www.lat" into the address bar. "www.latimes.com" was suggested. However, when I click the little arrow to the right of the address bar, www.latimes.com is not in the list that pops down.

Anyway, we're currently okay with monthly bandwidth, but we're eating diskspace like nobody's business. We've been live almost 2 months and we're 44% through our HD storage.

We can upgrade as far as 550MB (we're currently at 154 of 350). But that's more money. And then what?

Well, around 38 MB of this is the archived threads from WX and TT, plus another 10 MB of threads that I haven't even put up yet, so one possible work around would be to put them back where they were, and just point archives@buffista.org at the martzmountain address. The filk site is only about 3 MB, but we could put that back, too, if need be.

As far as the bandwidth issue, one problem seems to be that even if you only hit the 'back' key, php goes back and rebuilds the page from scratch. From what I could see from Googling around on this subject, this is by design, and the fact that it doesn't do it in Opera is considered a bug. The only way around it for other browsers seems to be to use a page caching program at the server. Can we do this? Would this help us?

Hostrocket WILL shut us down and demand more money if we exceed our bandwidth. It's what happened last month to the SaveFarscape / Frell Me Dead forum over on wdsection.com.

We've got a fair amount of people who have webspace of their own. Surely we can get some volunteers and spread the archived threads around so no one person takes too big of a hit.

Now, once we start having to archive Phoenix Board threads, that's probably going to put a dent in searchability, but it's still doable, right?

I have webspace I'm not yet using, because I'm lazy and haven't shifted my site to it. I think I've got 200 megs and a fair amount of bandwidth.