ex-webby

Thank you for all your patience over the last couple of days while we made a number of back end improvements to scoobynet some of which will be coming online shortly.

We spent much of the downtime trying to index all of the posts to enable the search to work effectively, but we need to take further advice as it may be that the size of the database (over 1 million posts) is causing a problem for the indexing. This unfortunately means that search won't be coming back straight away, but we have a lot more information now which means it's not far away.

Thanks again for your patience, it is appreciated.

All the best

Simon & the moderators

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Cheers for the news Simon. Thanks for the hard work

Caronte

Cool, nice one.

Can't wait the search facility..

Thx Simon & Moderators

Caronte

Jon1T

yeah - it's amazing, I've had to do some work for the past two days!

It's worth it to get the search facility up tho...

[Edited by Jon1T - 6/25/2002 6:05:18 PM]

MATTeL

Simon,

Thanks for updating the "Closed" screen, it was nice to see how things were going.

Good luck with the indexing.

Mark

GavinP

Yep - updating the "Closed" screen was a nice touch!

Thanks

Gavin

Mr.Manchester

Thanks simon, now ive got my "excuse" back for spending so much time on the net

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

WayHay Thanks

mega_stream

Good to be back

I hope the 1 million don't include the 800k or so posts in the muppet threads

auto scooby

BOB.T

cheers chaps
ditto the closed screen fingmy

ScoobyJawa

good work chaps - even if I did have to work

Another thumbs up for the updates

muppet paster

Oh, the search will only go back a week then, will it?

Danny Fisher

About bloody time too. Do you know I have had to do some work, while this site has been down. Please dont let it happen to often, they might get used to me working for a living.

Dan

stratman

Thank god its back...I was suffering withdrawal symptoms. Wife thought it was great cos I had no excuses not to do some decorating and fixing the plumbing....still I managed to play with the scoob as well.

Great work you guys ....thanks for your efforts

Stratman

PeterPerfect

Thanks Simon

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

Wouldn't it save some time to not index the Muppet forum? There's hardly anything in there worth searching for (IMHO, of course), and must surely generate a massive index.

A.

IanW

At a guess i would say that approx 40% of the posts on the whole BBS are in the muppet forum. However all the posts etc are probably stored in a single table so you can't distinguish the muppet threads other than by the 'forumid'.

Even if those 40% were not indexed it would still take quite a while for the other 600,000 (approx) rows in the DB to index. The hardest part has been done now! the indexes are in place, which should help speed up the search, and its loading on the DB.

Cheers for the updates as you progressed though Simon

Ian

Neil Smalley

Simon & Moderators ?

Is that some kind of 80's tribute band?

Seriously Si. Well done for keep us all informed and to let you know that all your hardwork IS very much appreciated..

Neil Smalley

Simon,

Noticed there are a few ODBC errors on a few pages.

E.g Pages 411-416 in general

Steve Perriam

yeah keep up the good work.