stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

Am I right in saying this was all TEN YEARS AGO now?

is it just me or is the spacing all screwed up on the search page, like the css isn't loading right or something

Am I right in saying this was all TEN YEARS AGO now?

― Keith, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 22:32 Bookmark

no the right way to say it is 10 years ago now

Well clearly ten years on this place hasn't changed.

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.

"even I after log in"

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.

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.

Don't know if it's related, but threads have been taking a long time to load the last couple of days.

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?

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.

the search function is still super buggy and slow fyi

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?

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

fuckin' lars

I get banner ads on every thread while logged in on my work computer.

the search function is still super buggy and slow fyi

― 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

no prob for me

I get banner ads on every thread while logged in on my work computer.

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).

search: it depends on what you search.

e.g. search for Zimmerman: it hangs forever/timeout
search for Trayvon: it hangs forever/timeout

search for energy: immediate results
search 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)

^ 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

sounds like it might be thread specific causing problems

yeah my search problems vary depending on the search term

Have rebuilt the indexes the search system uses. Zimmerman and Trayvon now both working for me; can people try things that were broken for them?

I still can't get "clickhole" to search

"trayvon" still broken for me too

searching "2015 albums" also not working -- this is what brought this to my attention a few weeks ago when i was trying to find the year end poll

Let me check i'm doing the same search as you — when I try it's instant. I'm searching:

http://i.imgur.com/f4Zrvfk.png

i'm doing thread titles, not posts. i also was not using quotes -- however when i do use quotes (and search most relevant, all boards) it works!

just tried again. 2015 albums, searching thread titles. quotes = works. no quotes = doesn't work

i use google site search

The search engine is Apache Lucene. Whatever works with Lucene will work with it. I didn't do anything special on top of it. Here is a page that describes some of the stuff you ought to be able to do, although to be fair, it may be that it does more now than it did back when this stuff was done:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html

Yeah, I think I've fannied it up though, by leaving it on, er, v2.3.2 while upgrading to Java 8. I see the lucene lib's on v6 now. Should do something about that.

Hey Zing is crashing on load for me now. I tried to check for an update but none was listed.

Sorry not on load. It loads, but when I select a board, it crashes to desktop (or whatever the equiv is on a phone), this is on iOS

Which iOS?

fine for me in ios10

TBH re: Lucene, I only used it because the database didn't support full text indices at the time, so ideally a pretty complicated mechanism involving batch processes and all manner of stuff keeping the search index up-to-date in line with the database could be removed and replaced with a bit of SQL.

That describes most Enterprise Architecture tbh.

/replaces whole thing with 19 micro services.

Ha, well I don't really buy the micro services trend, but certainly, perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The Weeknd thread is not loading for me on Zing, strangely. Maybe it's the stars?

Not a big deal and I am probably the only person using Windows Phone browser, but it is weird that I have to confirm every bookmark

Sorry this is weird - whatever was causing it to crash on the weekend, its fine now! Odd.

every now and again when i hit submit post im asked to log in again instead. the username field is filled with gibberish when this happens.

not good enough imo.

Fixed the Weeknd thread at least.

jeez way to make me feel like a low priority but

/replaces whole thing with 19 micro services.

sad, soul-crushing lol

Fixed the Weeknd thread at least.

Thank you!

my job is convincing people to write good single-purpose domain-specific services right now but it makes sense since they're all operations every damn app does and they all implement it different ways. half of those ways are to just hammer on the same database tables 24/7

ilx is not any of these things, thank god

half of those ways are to just hammer on the same database tables 24/7

This could have been the motto of poxy fule-era ILX tbf