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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: asdfsquared on July 09, 2013, 12:17 am
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So, am I the only one getting sick of a lack of upgrades to SR? I mean, it doesn't take that long to implement even the most basic features like:
A better search function (desperately needed!)
Pending deposit information
A better feedback system
Proper capitalization
I mean, seriously. I could implement all those in under a day. It takes HOURS to find a proper listing, because you have to scroll through dozens of pages or attempt to do a text search.
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It seems everyone with a good idea is ignored.Scammer prevention is badly needed.Vendors scam for weeks and nothing is done.Who knows how much money is being scammed everyday?When scammers make money SR makes money.I'm not saying this is why scammers go unabated but sometimes you just have to follow the money.
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asdf², one reason i can think of is that changing scripts comes with the possibility of introducing security flaws. Those can be caused accidentally due to poor coding or by the extended functionality itself:
Search results are most likely cached after generating instead of actually being generated every time. This is to a) lower server load and b) prevent DoS attacks abusing the search function. By introducing more search features there'd be a huge number of possible search variations. Most of which obviously wouldn't ever be searched for and thus wouldn't ever be cached. Searching for all those useless non-cached combinations of search terms/parameters at once would make an excellent example of how to perform (D)DoS.