Unfortunately not by just making two clicks. Well, I could raise the minimum characters required for a search term (which is 4) in the admin panel but that wouldn't help since this minimum is also present in the databases software configuration. And it's there for a reason: it would put quite a load onto the processor because of how full text search on binary data works internally. There's constant searches going on so the forums might become quite laggy.
I'll get in contact with the server support crew to discuss this but please don't have any expectations.
Yeah, that's really annoying, we're on the same page here, too. I just looked up the numbers:
- The home partition (which is where Linux keeps all the user data) is around 270GB
- The websites pictures and videos eat up > 100GB - growing, since @Bernhard is still very active adding new content to the site
- Attachments in the forums are around 20GB currently, also growing
- Together with software installed and all the other stuff we're at around 170GB of user data right now, leaving less than 100GB free atm
- There's around 20MB of attachments data incoming per day which means ~7.5GB per year at the current rate
So if I would just double the upload limits to 2MB the hard drive would be saturated in maybe two to three years. Problem is: it wouldn't help in people having to reduce image resolution since average smartphone camera images are around 4-8MB these days, also growing. And the server costs are sky high already (my heads exploded as
@Bernhard told me the numbers).
So I'll give Bernhard a call (we already appointed for the weekend) and I'll talk to him about the situation. But I have to counsel him in all honesty on this.