HarmanMogul-
I pay about $8.55 a month.
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Nothing - discounting the pre microcosm membership stuff and the donations and some useful content I’ve contributed.
But that’s fine because if someone asked me to rank forum features in terms of what I’d pay for, the ‘typing stuff into a text box and getting a great set of results and suggested next steps back’ experience would be pretty low on the list because it’s not really a priority when thinking about how to get value from a forum *. Worse, it’s hard to do well and potentially a massive distraction from the actual stuff needed to facilitate communication and moderation.
* tester is right when he says search is vital to the system, but then it’s not really helpful in this context - pretty much any online publishing system can be boiled down to some code asking a database to find something for it so it can return it to whatever user requested it.
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withered_preacher
Howard
Pfffft if you want to look at it like that. To me it's like saying VW's business is robot factories or forging or whatever. It's involved at a technical level, it's not the product.
If search - and search as how punters probably understand it, i.e. typing what I'm interested in a search box and expecting to get relevant stuff back- was central to the user experience we wouldn't be here explaining this