I used to be able to print entire threads to one easily searchable page. I understand the rationale for taking this away has to do with workload pressure on servers.
Still, searching and finding data in very long threads should be easier. I know we can still search within threads but the results are limited to very few hits when there are many more matches available in the thread.
Just my 2-cents. Thanks for the awesome forums. Not sure if there is a better place to post comments like this. Please let me know.
Use Google. Just add
site:bitcointalk.org to the end of your query.
I do that frequently and have really good success but it's not the same as being able to thoroughly dissect extremely long threads... google comes up short in that department. I was just so much more capable when I could scan through the enormous threads here word-by-word to easily see things in context. I just lament over the loss of that search capability.
I have delved into the advanced search features but it's still not nearly as good as being able to download the entire page. Not sure if adding a download thread feature is feasible or if that would be the same type of workload as printing to a web-page. Maybe we can take up a collection to pay for additional download bandwidth.
