Issues after 2023 site upgrade

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

Unsure if related to the site update, but I get a server timeout error (524) whenever I try to search something up.

More specifically, I look something up, it takes forever so I navigate away for a while, and it times out. Nothing else has issues loading, and I can even click and open links on the page I searched from.

[Treamayne]

29 minutes ago, Lego Mistborn said:

Unsure if related to the site update, but I get a server timeout error (524) whenever I try to search something up.

More specifically, I look something up, it takes forever so I navigate away for a while, and it times out. Nothing else has issues loading, and I can even click and open links on the page I searched from.

Device (PC, Mac, Mobile, Tablet)?

Browser?

Method of search (Search bar only, advanced search, Advanced search with filters(see below))?

Have you tried more than one method of search?

Have you seen any reduced speed elsewhere (other sites, non-search sections of the Shard)?

Thank you very much and have a great day. 

Advanced Search:

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In case you have not tried it, it may help since the filters reduce how much information has to be parsed for the search. 

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1. Click the hourglass to open Advanced Search
2. Add search term(s)
3. (Optional) Filter by user(s)
4. (Optional) Filter by :
   • titles/body
   • "all terms"/"any term"
   • First post date/time
   • Last post date/time
5. (Optional) Filter by area
   • With "Topics" you can pick one or more Forums (in the example, I searched the Mistborn Forum and Cosmere Discussion Forum)
6. Click Search

 

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

Windows 11 chrome, search bar only, no slowdowns elsewhere, and there weren't any filters I could really use for the search I had issues with.

[Duxredux he/him]

This isn't a bug, so much as something that has potentially unintended consequences. For the Q&A section, historically the question creator can mark a response as the community answer... even if it was their own post. I know this because I did it before community answers were something we tracked. Click my profile, click Community Answers, and click the thread link and you'll see where I asked a question then much later came back after we got a WoB on my exact question and I posted Brandon's response. I marked it as the official response to get the attention of everyone who had previously posted on that thread, I just wasn't expecting it to later on go on my profile's public record. 

[PanicPug]

This is not a bug, but a suggestion for the forums to maybe avoid necro'ing a bit better, especially in the Q&A section: 

Would it be possible to highlight the posting dates of posts that are older than x months/years? Maybe format them red and bold or something?

[Through the Living Heir he/him]

3 hours ago, PanicPug said:

This is not a bug, but a suggestion for the forums to maybe avoid necro'ing a bit better, especially in the Q&A section: 

Would it be possible to highlight the posting dates of posts that are older than x months/years? Maybe format them red and bold or something?

Agreed, but also this particular place to ask that question is so ironic. I think there is a feature suggestion thread somewhere. 

[Treamayne]

4 hours ago, Ookla the Inquisitive said:

Agreed, but also this particular place to ask that question is so ironic. I think there is a feature suggestion thread somewhere. 

I know of the old suggestion thread, but I do not know of a new one started since the site change-over. When I asked the question in this thread, this was the response:

On 10/21/2023 at 1:42 PM, Chaos said:

On 10/21/2023 at 1:15 PM, Treamayne said:

 PS: Is there a change feedback thread (as opposed to this "issues" thread)?

This is the feedback thread, in my opinion, don't take the name too seriously. There are a lot of settings we can do, but do note we will be very cautious at altering the actual site functionality to make site updates easy in the future. The previous one was too customized, which lead to issues.

That may change now that the new site update has been live for a while. the Admins will hopefully let us know if they prefer separate threads for each topic, or possibly a new topic for feedback and change requests (or remain in this thread).