I suppose that makes sense, I never really thought people did that.
Unfortunately, the change was made for more technical reasons (indexing was added to make searches not lock up the server, but indexing only works on word boundaries at the moment).  I may look into infix indexing later on but for now I suggest just using Google for searching as it will probably always be better than what I can do here.

This is the perfect site for my ipad. Thank you so much for all your hard work! :)

Good morning...

I am unsure if this has been addressed already, but I believe there was a change in search functionality made earlier this year that may be cumbersome to some AnimeTosho users (like myself).  Previously, I could type just a few letters of an anime's title in the search bar and I seem to recall that potential title matches would appear, but at the very least, it would conduct a search for titles with the few letters I had typed in.  Currently, potential matches do not appear when I begin to type, and unless a full and correctly spelled word from an anime's title is typed in the bar, it will report "no items found".  

I will (sadly) admit that my age is on the wrong side of half century mark, and that my eyesight is as poor as my typing skills, so perhaps it is just me who misses the old search functions.  Japanese anime titles often contain long words and/or "uncommon" spelling (i.e. Kyousougiga, Kakumeiki Valvrave, Gingitsune, Monogatari).  Having to type in a complete title word perfectly to ensure a successful search, instead of just "kyo", "kak", "gin", or "mon", can be a challenge.  It is fortunate that only one word from a title is required, so a successful search for an anime like "Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita" can be done with just a "ni", "ore", "wa", or "wo".

If at all possible, please consider reimplementing the prior search functionality.  I for one would be eternally grateful to AnimeTosho if I could once again complete successful searches with just a few letters of an anime's title.

Thank you for your time!

but doesn't downscaling from 1080p to 720p require more time than normal encoding?