ah yes thanks
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Please remind what open circle means again
― Planking Full Stop (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
the bullet point next to thread titles is "open" if there are new answers since you read the thread last
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
is search slow/malfunctioning sometimes for anyone else
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
I can't get bookmark to work on the latest presidential election thread. May or may not be a bad thing.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
What happens when you try?
Search: aha! Were you running a search just about the time you posted that? I got some alarms firing on the server at that time; need to check that out more.
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 09:44 (seven years ago) link
I see Message Bookmarked, but the thread doesn't apear in my bookmarks list or at the top of the page when it has new messages. Bookmarks on other threads work fine.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I got some alarms firing on the server at that time; need to check that out more.
Imagining you in a bunker with red flashing bulbs.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
Yes, but only certain searches. I think post searches have been markedly quicker than thread searches (which sometimes take like a full minute to run).
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, September 14, 2016 5:44 AM (five hours ago)
i was! it's been going on since the reboot, though. as old lunch says, the search seems to have a mind of its own about when it will work and when it won't
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Can you remember exactly what you were searching for? Email me if you like - stet @ ilxor
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Odd - thread searches should be markedly quicker than post searches!
If it's a problem, we might need to just rebuild the search index from scratch.
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
i get slow searches sometimes too
i mentioned it to stet the first time
it happens every so often but i'll post when it does
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:21 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was searching for the 2015 end of year tracks poll. I think I searched "ilm 2015", "ilm 2015 tracks", "ilm tracks" etc and selected "most recent first" -- each time the search would come up but as I clicked through and approached the matching threads from january clicking "next" wouldn't work. for some of the searches this was on the third page, for another it was the fourth, another the second...it was bizarre, almost like the search knew what thread I wanted to find and didn't want me to see it
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I keep searching for "; drop table users;" and it doesn't work!!
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
ha
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
sorry, I really tried not to type that
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
it was quicker than trying to roll together a joke about apache commons problems with deserialization
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Haha (injection thing).
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
(Yes, they're not going to work)
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
It's possible that what's happening is a function of how it works and housekeeping...
The way it works is that I run a big job at the beginning that scans all the threads and posts and creates two index files for the search: one for threads, one for posts. The threads one is miles smaller; hence, why it should be faster. With hindsight, I wouldn't even have bothered with the threads one, as subsequent to developing the search, I decided it was useful to just hold the whole list of threads in memory at all times anyway for fast access.
Anyway, that's cool for startup, but the way it keeps the index up-to-date with changes since the initial build is that a batch job runs every five minutes, scans the database for new or changes to threads and posts and updates the index.
I'd have thought that ultimately, this would fragment the index file and make it slow and I for one certainly haven't recreated the index file for at least five years, which would be half a million updates to the index files at least! So guessing somewhat here, but if Stet hasn't recreated the index file since I last did, which I might doubt, as I don't think we ever talked about what that thing did before, then it's possible that's what's going on and all we need to do is stop the site, recreate the index file and start it again.
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
It's actually an all-new index file as of a couple of weeks ago, so I'm wondering if something went iffy there. No harm in making a new one, will kick that off later.
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
> 19:17 (fifty-six minutes ago)
It is 21:11 here now. Why is that saying 56 minutes?
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
>
> 20:14 (three minutes ago)
Slightly better
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
Although it's 21:18 here, not 20:18
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Someone else doing a big search
― stet, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
The index file could potentially be screwed if it were created when the site was running when that happened. I mean, I don't know whether it would or not, but I've never thought through whether it would cause issues. Certainly the initial job reads big fuckoff lumps of the database at a time and indexes that then moves on to the next; the database changing under its feet could render some of the already-created index incorrect, although it'd be up to Apache Lucene whether or not that cause the whole thing problems or not.
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Am I right in saying this was all TEN YEARS AGO now?
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
is it just me or is the spacing all screwed up on the search page, like the css isn't loading right or something
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 22:32 Bookmark
no the right way to say it is 10 years ago now
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 September 2016 10:55 (seven years ago) link
Well clearly ten years on this place hasn't changed.
― Keith, Thursday, 15 September 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I just bought a new Android tab, and now I'm seeing banner ads on ILX even I log in with Chrome. The tablet has Android 6.0, I didn't seen any ads while using Chrome on my older tablet, which had an older version of Android.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
"even I after log in"
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 09:34 (seven years ago) link
http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_20161007-192926_zpsce6zozqq.png
Here's an example, I'm logged in, but I still see the as.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 October 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
not sure why, but half of the things I search for cause ILX to hang.
for instance, I searched for Lost Boys, and it comes up no problem.
I search for any variant of "let's shit our pants to something new", even without the word 'shit', and none of them work, except "Let's shit", and doesn't return that thread at all. I tried "our pants", "something new", "shit our pants", and it just hung for minutes at a time.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Don't know if it's related, but threads have been taking a long time to load the last couple of days.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
help! the site is doing that thing where every last bookmark I've ever had is showing up at the top of SNA and I can't make them go away. I tried changing the Use Traditional Bookmarks setting, but it didn't do anything. How do I fix this? What am I doing to cause this?
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
hmmm, well I think I fixed this for now. I changed the Google account in my Chrome browser and that seemed to help, not sure why.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
the search function is still super buggy and slow fyi
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 November 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
my versh of zing suddenly won't load any URLs, unless I jump out to safari. i.e. won't display em on zing. is it just me?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 November 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
Even though I'm logged in, I still see a banner ad on this thread:
Metallica ARE...Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
It doesn't matter much to me, but it's strange that's the only thread (so far) where that happens.
FYI
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
fuckin' lars
― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
I get banner ads on every thread while logged in on my work computer.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
― k3vin k., Sunday, November 13, 2016 2:01 PM (four days ago)
is this just me? it's been going on for months. i can't find threads i want to find
― k3vin k., Thursday, 17 November 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
no prob for me
― Spottie, Thursday, 17 November 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
This keeps happening to me a lot when I use Chrome on Android, as I mentioned above. Not on my home tabletop computer though (I use Firefox with Adblock Plus).
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 November 2016 09:40 (seven years ago) link
search: it depends on what you search.
e.g. search for Zimmerman: it hangs forever/timeoutsearch for Trayvon: it hangs forever/timeout
search for energy: immediate resultssearch for zooropa: immediate results (it's not that the end of the alphabet is slower)search for Ziegler: immediate result (it's not last names starting with capital letters either)
― StanM, Friday, 18 November 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link
^ googleproofed = no search results? But then I DID find that one thread I couldn't find here by going to google and searching for the same thing and site:ilxor.com so I don't know
― StanM, Friday, 18 November 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
sounds like it might be thread specific causing problems
― Mordy, Friday, 18 November 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link