Search Engine Work Being Done

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok folks...

Welcome back! Sorry for the downtime, we did a bunch of system upgrades, and while I am still working (and will be late into the night) I have turned the site back on for use by you our members.

Currently the SEARCH function is not working correctly, I am rebuilding the search index which will take all night, so the number of results you might get when seaching might be low until its finished.

All other portions of the system should be functioning normally. If you find something strange please report it here.

Thanks again for your patience and thanks again for being SatelliteGuys (and Gals!)

 

[jamesalan9]

What was the problem with the search option?

 

[jcrandall]

Scott is doing a major upgrade to the forum software. The search indexing needs to rebuild, no problem inparticular.

 

[Smith P.]

corrupted indexes ( as usual for similar forums )

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The reindexing of the search engine should be done a few times a year. This is the first time I have did it this year.

 

[iwc5893]

Never mind, the problem I was going to report is now fixed.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

So far we have reindexed over 280,000 of the 1.4 MILLION messages posted here to SatelliteGuys. As I said this is going to take all night.

 

[thiggin2]

I was going to use the "countdown" feature and noticed its not available to me.

 

[Peter Parker]

Will it be able to handle searches containing one or more words less than three characters?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I was going to use the "countdown" feature and noticed its not available to me.

Give it a try now.

 

[thiggin2]

Give it a try now.

Yep, its working now . Thanks

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok we are getting close to reindexing 500,000 of the 1.4 million messages.

Still working.

 

[Skibum]

Apparently I can't post any messages without allowing "yahooapis.com" to run scripts on my computer. What's that all about?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The new vBulletin software uses a editor from Yahoo which is hosted on Yahoo, this means everytime someone posts a message the editor program java is downloaded from Yahoo instead of from our server, thus saving us bandwidth.

It can be changed so that its downloaded from our server, however I want to try this for a few days to see if it makes a difference on the server bandwidth. (and speeds things up)

At the moment its hard to tell with the server intensive search engine reindexing going on it its helping or not, which is why I want to run it a few days to see how it goes.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok we are now over 500,000 in the reindex. Still a million posts to go.

After being off from work for the past two weeks I got to be up at 6am for work, so I am off to bed. The reindexing will continue into the night.

Good night everyone and thanks again for being SatelliteGuys!

 

[Skibum]

Gotcha. I might suggest letting users of FireFox who use the NoScript extension know to allow that script if they're having trouble posting then.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok the reindex has just completed (around 12 hours after it started)

All search features should now be fully functioning.

 

[Peter Parker]

Will it be able to handle searches containing one or more words less than three characters?

I answered my own question. Three character words are fine now. Two character words are ignored even if part ofa longer string.

 

[jayn_j]

I'm having problems getting quick post and edit post to work. It just seems to hang forever with the rotating daisy icon.

 

[stone phillips420]

new post and quick links problems in drop down menu in classic and new

always get 2 clicks then always says wait 10 sec and try again

worked fine before update last night