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

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

http://www.spigot.com/

I get ads sometimes when logged in on Android 6 Chrome but not on Android 4 Chrome

cant search for ws

cant start new ws thread

?

search is still hanging sometimes for me - seems to be specific threads that are causing it, e.g. i searched for all threads started by iatee and the first 2 pages of results loaded fine but the 3rd will not

Post search seems to be working fine, thread search seems to be working not fine.

i regret to inform the mods that the search feature is lagging for me too, preventing me from finding the gucci mane thread. maybe this will be enough to finally inspire some action from the leadership but i'm not hopeful.

www.how2search.net:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ailxor.com+gucci+mane

That sounds like a lot of work. I'm already putting my energy toward generating content for this site.

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

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I get banner ads while logged on on my computer and phone. They start playing video sometimes.

any idea why the board kept timing out on me this morning when i tried to start an ILM thread with the terms "ILM" and "77" in the title?

I think it was a login problem. There's a funny situation you can get into where you're logged in but the site thinks you aren't. Clues are ads showing up and 77 not showing up in Search.

i did see some ads!

it was weird tho, i tried for a good 20 mins or so, and when i dropped that extra "7" in there it took right away

First rule of 77 board is you don't talk about 77 board.

ohhhh I know what it is: when you start a new thread it does a search to see if there are possible duplicates; the search is buggered right now so it times out on some small searches.

Ten bucks says back in the heyday somebody asked for some rule to stop people from making threads about 77 on non-77 borads and because that was such a golden age one of somebody actually did it because STFU

Or yeah that xpost

that makes sense xxp - thanks!

why am I being asked to confirm my bookmarks?