New Avalon doesnt look bad:

 

noted

 

yes its rather annoying when it resets the 15 sec time limit everytime u click search while violating the rule

 

sig'd.

 

indeed.
esp. when I fat-finger a key.
or a noob is trying to help themselves before starting a new, been covered a thousand times thread.

 

This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between searches. Please try again in 24 seconds.

 

i got 37 seconds not too long ago

 

 

lmao, thats pretty insane.

 

its gotten worse for me in the last few days

 

This is probably happening because the search phrase is hard-coded. The "15" part is hard-coded while the actual delay is set to what I am guessing to be 45 seconds. If the (varname) searchfloodcheck phrase is modified to reflect the current setting, everything should appear fine again. Of course this would need to be repeated each time the setting is changed.

As to why this problem just appeared, it is probably because one of the administrators recently set the search delay to a number higher than the default value in order to ease the load on the server.

There is the 0.001% chance this has nothing to do with the phrase and there is some modification in between the search and users, but as stated before that is highly unlikely.

EDIT: I am all over that Avalon!