User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-876022-20120429231326

This is just a horrible change Wikia. Been avoiding the search bar and just typing the pages I want as URL's. This is a serious annoyance and should be another opt-out thing rather than forcing on users. Each time Wikia makes a change they think is for the betterment of their userbase, it brings outrage. This is one such feature and landing on Special:Search used to be very rare.

The RSW has hundreds of thousands of redirects to the 20,000 articles as they are known ingame as acronyms rather than the proper name. Getting thrown into Special:Search slows down you're lovely edge cache and makes me not want to use the feature at all. With this addition, it now takes as long as the Java Wiki software to locate articles on Jagex's official wiki. This is absurd and should be reverted back.

Fixing it would make it less of a hassle otherwise what is the point of redirects if we are redirected to Special:Search. If I really wanted to search, I'll use Google. 23:13, April 29, 2012 (UTC)