IIRC there were times when one was able to directly run a complicated super search by clicking a link.

AFAIR this was deactivated for performance reasons. Now we need to additionally click the [Search] button after "preloading"

Hence having links which automatically run searches can't be a desired situation.

Especially when dealing with bots.

Update

Probably some confusion, I'm not talking about the recent outages. I didn't experience any when I started this thread, tho it seems to be drifting in that direction.

I'm interested to know if fixing named links would improve performance notably.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^2: Bots, missing nodes and outages (updated) by LanX
in thread Bots, missing nodes and outages by LanX

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