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Topic: An Error Has Occurred - Searching has been temporarily disabled. (Read 1640 times)

member
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Anyone else getting this?

Sorry if there are already threads about this, I can't really find them using the search bar (for obvious reasons).

Everyone is seeing this. Good news is that I have an idea.

If you want to search something on bitcointalk forum, just google BITCOINTALK + . You will get what you want.
legendary
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Searching is back up as of now, theymos fixed it after the recent downtime.
legendary
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I'm too low of a rank to be able to close or move the topic by myself :/ Guess I gotta be a bit more active.
You can lock this topic, if you have done with your questions Smiley

I like how you asked the OP to lock the topic by quoting the reason why he can't lock it.

I believe the rank doesn't matter and he can lock his own thread as a newbie.
IIRC, there is a "lock topic" button somewhere at the bottom left corner if you are the thread creator.
newbie
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I'm too low of a rank to be able to close or move the topic by myself :/ Guess I gotta be a bit more active.
You can lock this topic, if you have done with your questions Smiley

I like how you asked the OP to lock the topic by quoting the reason why he can't lock it.
full member
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I'm too low of a rank to be able to close or move the topic by myself :/ Guess I gotta be a bit more active.
You can lock this topic, if you have done with your questions Smiley
DFS
newbie
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use this on Google if you want search whole of this forum:
Code:
keywords wanna you search site:bitcointalk.org

Oh thanks!

Topic can be locked by a staff member, thanks (or left alone).

Theymos disabled the search since the last downtime => https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/recent-downtime-and-data-loss-932315
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Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.
For the moment just search like dsyahputera just said Wink
Btw , you can close your own topics look at the bottom of the thread you will see "Move topic" & "Close topic" options .

~ Madness

I'm too low of a rank to be able to close or move the topic by myself :/ Guess I gotta be a bit more active.
legendary
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There have been reports of a massive bot registrations recently.

This could be related to a possible forums DDoS attack vector they have been attempting to exploit.

/tinfoil-hat

Just curious as to how would that be related to the search feature on the forum ?

No the disable has nothing to do with the bot account registrations, but the RAID failure.

Due to a failure of the RAID array that bitcointalk.org was running on, the database became corrupted. It was necessary to move the OS and restore the database using a daily backup. About 8 hours of data was lost (anything after about Jan 21 21:44 UTC).

I've been busy getting the forum back online, so I haven't investigated this much yet, but it may be possible for me to manually restore lost posts/PMs by searching the recovered database files for keywords that you remember. If you lost a post or PM that you feel is absolutely irreplacable, PM me and I'll see if I can recover it.

Everyone's drafts were also all lost. These are not backed up because they're automatically deleted after 14 days anyway.

Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.
legendary
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i just checked this and i m also getting same error message
(Searching is temporarily disabled)

any news from admin or staff about this error
legendary
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Christian Antkow
There have been reports of a massive bot registrations recently.
This could be related to a possible forums DDoS attack vector they have been attempting to exploit.
/tinfoil-hat
Just curious as to how would that be related to the search feature on the forum ?
A bunch of bots searching the forums at once would bring it to it's knees.
full member
Activity: 182
Merit: 100
There have been reports of a massive bot registrations recently.

This could be related to a possible forums DDoS attack vector they have been attempting to exploit.

/tinfoil-hat

Just curious as to how would that be related to the search feature on the forum ?
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1067
Christian Antkow
There have been reports of a massive bot registrations recently.

This could be related to a possible forums DDoS attack vector they have been attempting to exploit.

/tinfoil-hat
hero member
Activity: 644
Merit: 500
My goal is becaming a billionaire.
use this on Google if you want search whole of this forum:
Code:
keywords wanna you search site:bitcointalk.org

Oh thanks!

Topic can be locked by a staff member, thanks (or left alone).

Theymos disabled the search since the last downtime => https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/recent-downtime-and-data-loss-932315
Quote
Search is temporarily disabled because I need to regenerate the search index before it will be usable again.
For the moment just search like dsyahputera just said Wink
Btw , you can close your own topics look at the bottom of the thread you will see "Move topic" & "Close topic" options .

~ Madness
DFS
newbie
Activity: 41
Merit: 0
use this on Google if you want search whole of this forum:
Code:
keywords wanna you search site:bitcointalk.org

Oh thanks!

Topic can be locked by a staff member, thanks (or left alone).
full member
Activity: 224
Merit: 100
use this on Google if you want search whole of this forum:
Code:
keywords wanna you search site:bitcointalk.org
hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 500
Anyone else getting this?

Sorry if there are already threads about this, I can't really find them using the search bar (for obvious reasons).

This is due to bitcointalk going down a few days back. It should be effecting everyone
DFS
newbie
Activity: 41
Merit: 0
Anyone else getting this?

Sorry if there are already threads about this, I can't really find them using the search bar (for obvious reasons).
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