another_jim wrote:From the time the first drops appear

Seriously, the timing rule isn't all that great. Moreover, it's more like 25 to 30 seconds, not 20 to 25.

PhaetonFalling wrote:btw.. is there a forum search feature?

HB wrote:One of the goals of this site is to "raise the discussion level." That requires a certain common knowledge so everyone can participate fully, or available resources to acquire the required knowledge. Articles are formal documentation of the knowledge that is frequently discussed in the forums, but they require considerable effort to write, copyedit, and publish. So I looked for ways of leveraging the building knowledge base in the forums. A few of these ideas are complete:

• Related topics to encourage more in-depth reading and revive past discussions
  
• FAQs and Favorites forum collects the best of the best to encourage "self service" reading; the related topics automatic search takes advantage of these vetted topics to present a few (hopefully) relevant matches in each set of related topics
  
• Search has been highly optimized for speed and enhanced to recognize common espresso-related abbreviations and synonyms. Although we rely on the board's native search today, it won't scale over time, so I've already enabled Google Search in the site's search. If someday the board's search is too slow, it will be easy to switch and (hopefully) still get the same quality search results.