This weekends updates.
We have been negotiating with the DC over the past few days at a rather slow pace to get one of our servers connected back to the internet again. The server does not have a synchronized clock causing massive wait times between posts. This can be fixed if we forward packets of our main port to the other server when it requests any data from the web, but that takes some time to set up. Hence fixing the IP conflict maybe the faster way out of the problem.
At this very moment we’re fixing the search. There has been a reported bug of Graveyarded topics showing up in normal search results that specifically exclude the Graveyard. This issue is due to code updates not being fully propagated to the LinkChecker Bot’s code. This resulted in the LinkChecker Bot not taking new variables into consideration, but it has now been fixed.
However whilst fixing this issue, we have had to reindex the whole forum (yes, all 10 million articles) and hence we’re receiving 500 errors as MySQL cannot cater to the load given by Sphinx and the load by the site. The recent upgrade of the search was designed to prevent this sort of reindexing behaviour daily but instead fornightly or weekly at off peak hours. This reindexing, if performed at the correct time will not cause 500 errors.
