Why is "viewing all members" disabled?

[actmyname]

I'm of course talking about:

Sorry, no matches were found (Viewing all members is temporarily disabled)

On this page!

Is it a security issue?

If not, then there's no point disabling if you can just search for the rank "e" and encompass all the ranks you would really want to search for (the bulk, anyway): Newbie, (Jr/Full/Sr/Hero) Member, Legendary...
(If this is a problem, then you can also disable searching that and the word Member and so on and so forth.)

If you need to find Donators, VIPs, Staff or Admins, then you simply search for those: it's not a long list if they are what you're looking for anyway.

[Jhanzo]

I'm of course talking about:

Sorry, no matches were found (Viewing all members is temporarily disabled)

On this page!

Is it a security issue?

If not, then there's no point disabling if you can just search for the rank "e" and encompass all the ranks you would really want to search for (the bulk, anyway): Newbie, (Jr/Full/Sr/Hero) Member, Legendary...
(If this is a problem, then you can also disable searching that and the word Member and so on and so forth.)

If you need to find Donators, VIPs, Staff or Admins, then you simply search for those: it's not a long list if they are what you're looking for anyway.

Theymos said here that it was taking a lot of resource, so he turned it off.

[actmyname]

I'm of course talking about:

Sorry, no matches were found (Viewing all members is temporarily disabled)

On this page!

Is it a security issue?

If not, then there's no point disabling if you can just search for the rank "e" and encompass all the ranks you would really want to search for (the bulk, anyway): Newbie, (Jr/Full/Sr/Hero) Member, Legendary...
(If this is a problem, then you can also disable searching that and the word Member and so on and so forth.)

If you need to find Donators, VIPs, Staff or Admins, then you simply search for those: it's not a long list if they are what you're looking for anyway.

Theymos said here that it was taking a lot of resource, so he turned it off.

Like I said, you can do basically the same thing by searching "e". Is it just to restrict users from accessing it every time they click on the page and not when they actually want to do it?

[Jhanzo]

Like I said, you can do basically the same thing by searching "e". Is it just to restrict users from accessing it every time they click on the page and not when they actually want to do it?

Yeah probably.  It's not like all users who visit that page wants to see the whole member database.

[DarkStar_]

It's not disabled, just not enabled by default anymore (because like what Jhanzo said - it's resource intensive). If you wanted to see the full member list, including the admins/VIPs/Donators, you can search "*" which shows the full member list, ordered by UIDs.

[achow101]

Like I said, you can do basically the same thing by searching "e". Is it just to restrict users from accessing it every time they click on the page and not when they actually want to do it?

AFAICT, yes. Because getting all the users is very resource intensive, doing it every time someone went to the "Members" page would put a lot of load on the server. However doing it only when someone actually searches for every user will reduce the load on the server because the number of people making those requests is much smaller than the number of people who are actually searching for all users.