Recent downtime and data loss

[unamis76]

Searching is enabled again now. I also made several improvements to search. It should be substantially faster now, and maybe also more accurate. (SMF was extremely buggy in this area -- it's surprising that search was even usable before.)

Thank you, the search is very handy Keep up the good work!

[Muhammed Zakir]

Searching is enabled again now. I also made several improvements to search. It should be substantially faster now, and maybe also more accurate. (SMF was extremely buggy in this area -- it's surprising that search was even usable before.)

Thanks for implementing it again!

   ~~MZ~~

[Madness]

Searching is enabled again now. I also made several improvements to search. It should be substantially faster now, and maybe also more accurate. (SMF was extremely buggy in this area -- it's surprising that search was even usable before.)

Thanks for adding the search function back mate , that will reduce topics of the same thing little bit .
Btw , I'am pretty sure that the forum was down for several hours and back online just minuts ago , what was the reason of that ? was having a Connection Problem error when I try to come to the forums

~ Madness

[jbrnt]

Are these random downtime time for backups or there are still problems with the database?

[blablaace]

I think that this was the longest downtime since this started..

[haploid23]

These downtimes are for upgrades, not data loss and recovery, right?

[CptTripps]

I have a forum that has been running on SMF since before it was called SMF. (PutterTalk.com) I can certainly appreciate that error page!  Great job getting search re-enabled.

[unamis76]

Another odd, non-planned outage... Seems that everything is now back and working though, search included

[dserrano5]

Another odd, non-planned outage... Seems that everything is now back and working though, search included

It was planned—read the OP.

[Superhitech]

Yay, search is back. I was tired of using KEYWORD site:bitcointalk.org on google.

New forum software coming soon? It's February already, hope to see it soon.

[jsmit332]

Yay, search is back. I was tired of using KEYWORD site:bitcointalk.org on google.

New forum software coming soon? It's February already, hope to see it soon.

I would love to see new forum software. But Theymos is probably busy.

[theymos]

Most of the recent downtime is caused by MariaDB very rarely hanging on a random query and preventing all other queries from completing. If this sort of thing happens when everyone is sleeping/away (especially on weekends), then there's downtime. Someone on the MariaDB IRC says that it might be a bug in the version of MariaDB that I upgraded to as part of the server change.

[Bizmark13]

Forum was down for several hours, went back up, and then went down again for a couple hours earlier today.

I think that this was the longest downtime since this started..

I'm not 100% sure but I think the first one after the initial downtime was a bit longer. Then again, I slept through most of it so maybe my timing is a bit off.

Yay, search is back. I was tired of using KEYWORD site:bitcointalk.org on google.

New forum software coming soon? It's February already, hope to see it soon.

I'm the opposite of you. I've always preferred to use "site:bitcointalk.org" on Google for searching the forums.