code push tonight, search unavailable

[mark]

There will be a code push tonight. Scheduled for 10PM PDT (0500 UTC). This is approximately six hours from the time of this post.

As part of this code push, site search and journal search 2.0 will be going live. To do this, I have to take down and rebuild the search database. This operation will take me some hours, so I will be taking down our current journal search in a few minutes.

Additionally, this upcoming push will require a full site downtime. We will have to take the site entirely offline to do some database maintenance. I expect the site to be down no longer than 15 minutes, but it will be entirely unavailable for the duration.

As always, when the actual time comes, we'll update this community as well as post to our @dreamwidth Twitter account.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions, please let me know.

code push shortly

[mark]

Hi -- the code push I promised earlier today will be starting in about 10 minutes. The site will be completely down for approximately 15 minutes while I do some database updates.

In happy news, the new search system finished its final tweaks and updates as of a little while ago so it's ready to go. When the site comes back up, you will be able to visit the search page (linked in the Explore menu) and search over 2.1 million entries that are public and currently searchable.

A further 900,000 entries are public but will not be in the search index because we have automatically detected your current "minimize my journal's inclusion in search engines" setting. If, after the code push, you would like to make your entries available to site search, you can visit the Manage Account page, Privacy tab, and make that change. Your entries will show up in the index within the following 24 hours.

I'll update this post when the push has been completed, and any issues you run up against should be posted here. Thank you!

Edit: Update complete. Please let us know of any breakages or anything weird!