HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

This has happened before and it will happen again. Outages happen.

Can you share with us what the best point of contact or escalation path to reach out to the next time it happens on the Algolia side?

Btw, HN Replies also stopped working for me a month or two ago. Not sure why (I imagine something to do with my email or domain - re-registering didn't help), but if you find a chance to look into it I'd be grateful.

Sorry for the delays here. All the stories and comments missed should be backfilling as we speak. It's almost done. I posted updates further down, but wanted to post here since it's the top comment. We'll get an update on what happened and our plan to make sure we are on top of this in the coming days.

I became aware of it last night when a few users emailed me of chronological data in my app being outdated since Friday. Then went to GitHub and saw an issue was already open and upvoted by 8 others.

I use it as a front page, because it shows flagged posts and ranks them by total number of votes, not by arcane algorithms.

Try https://hcker.news (I made it), the front page interface is made for hn. It captures pretty much all you could do with the algolia site as a FP and then some.

Unlike most hn frontends out there i don’t rely on algolia’s api for any of its functionality, so it’s resilient to their outages.

If you're looking for an alternative front page, hckrnews.com has been mine for years. It keeps front page topics in a list and you can filter the list down to how ever much time you have atm.

Quick update.

We are backfilling the comments and stories we missed. You should start seeing them in the search results page. I will update when it's all caught up.

Apologies for this again, didn't want to send an update until I had something and every time it felt so close.

We'll work on an HN update on what happened here and lessons learned. (spoiler alert: ownership has become muddled over 10 years so we had to figure out how the portion that stopped crawling worked. That was fun. We'll make sure to work on a clear plan here and be transparent about it. So sorry :( )

The "from site" feature is native to HN.

You're probably kidding, but it's a cool feature and maybe someone doesn't know about it yet.

When you click the url next to a submission, it shows all the submissions from that website.

You can Google or use LLMs they index HN too.

Seems so, because I don't get notifications for rss anymore

Yup, I noticed yesterday that all items were a few days old. It seems to work now.

The change is that the algorithm is off vacationing in Bali.