yes thats correct, but i turned it off until you guys make sure everything is smooth again
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Ditto, will not be re-enabling it until others say things are smooth.
Mouth
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IMHO, better off with https://xenforo.com/help/enhanced-search/.
The one site that I frequent which has Threadloom active I find a very laggy and poor experience with their search. To the point where I used google the last few times I was looking for content on that site.
Thats what I usually use. Threadloom search results are much better, when it works.
Mouth
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In what way? That isn't my experience. Perhaps I'm missing something?
threadloom
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Thanks all for your patience! Alyssa here, one of the engineers at Threadloom, with an update. I'm a little long-winded about technical things, so forgive the long update 
.
Our team has been doing several things to avoid this situation in the future, and I want to give you some details.
1st, we determined that the cause of issues with saving posts yesterday was high latency to our real-time search index. We use real-time updates to ensure that our search index is fresh and shows results for the latest posts.
Due to the reported issues, we have a new plug-in up (2.0.8) which does 2 important things:
3rd, we're continuing to investigate reports of search slowness. Based on our logs, we saw a spike in page load time overall yesterday, but today it looks like things are back to normal. But please drop us a line if you want us to check your site out specifically.
We're continuing to work on making search even faster. When we launched new filters back in May (plug-in v2.0.6), we made some changes that offloaded most search requests from your servers to talk to our APIs directly, which lightens the load on your servers and speeds things up. We hope to continue reducing our server footprint and making things speedier.
On behalf of the team here, I apologize for the issues you experienced. We're grateful for each of your forums – not just for being Threadloom customers, but also for what you do for each of your communities. We're going to keep working on delivering the best forum search.
P.S. For those who are waiting before turning Threadloom back on, you can also check things out for yourself using the search preview link that you received when your index was complete. If things don't look good to you, drop us a line!
.Our team has been doing several things to avoid this situation in the future, and I want to give you some details.
1st, we determined that the cause of issues with saving posts yesterday was high latency to our real-time search index. We use real-time updates to ensure that our search index is fresh and shows results for the latest posts.
Due to the reported issues, we have a new plug-in up (2.0.8) which does 2 important things:
- Ensures we only perform these real-time updates after the database transactions that save the posts. This means we should never interrupt the saving of forum visitors' posts and you shouldn't see any more "lock wait timeout exceeded" errors in your console.
- Sets a timeout on real-time API calls so that even if our API is slow, it won't degrade the user experience.
3rd, we're continuing to investigate reports of search slowness. Based on our logs, we saw a spike in page load time overall yesterday, but today it looks like things are back to normal. But please drop us a line if you want us to check your site out specifically.
We're continuing to work on making search even faster. When we launched new filters back in May (plug-in v2.0.6), we made some changes that offloaded most search requests from your servers to talk to our APIs directly, which lightens the load on your servers and speeds things up. We hope to continue reducing our server footprint and making things speedier.
On behalf of the team here, I apologize for the issues you experienced. We're grateful for each of your forums – not just for being Threadloom customers, but also for what you do for each of your communities. We're going to keep working on delivering the best forum search.
P.S. For those who are waiting before turning Threadloom back on, you can also check things out for yourself using the search preview link that you received when your index was complete. If things don't look good to you, drop us a line!
threadloom
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threadloom updated Threadloom Site Search with a new update entry:
2.0.8 – released 2017-06-13
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2.0.8 – released 2017-06-13
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threadloom
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threadloom updated Threadloom Site Search with a new update entry:
All versions: Image search
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All versions: Image search
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CivilWarTalk
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Hi Threadloom, I just upgraded and Image Search Works great!
My only criticism is that the users will need to find the "Images" link/tab.
What would be awesome is that somewhere in the search results you had a preview of the first 4 or 5 images from an image search embedded above or within the Posts results.
You could also include a link that says: "Click here to see all image search results..." or something similar.
Otherwise, without me pointing it out to members, I'm not sure they will ever discover this new feature.....
Thanks for improving an already great product!
My only criticism is that the users will need to find the "Images" link/tab.
What would be awesome is that somewhere in the search results you had a preview of the first 4 or 5 images from an image search embedded above or within the Posts results.
You could also include a link that says: "Click here to see all image search results..." or something similar.
Otherwise, without me pointing it out to members, I'm not sure they will ever discover this new feature.....
Thanks for improving an already great product!
RobinHood
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That's pretty cool, how does it work exactly?
Using the baby boots example listed from your blog it seems that the first image doesn't have a natural language file name or alt tag, the image isn't hosted on that specific post - it's linked, the only baby reference is the username of the person who posted the link, and the only similarity to boots is the word shoes in the post. Yet the result is a good match for baby boots! It's quite impressive.
Where did you turn it on at? Do you have the gallery addon? I do not have the gallery addon so maybe thats why i cannot find where to turn on the image search?
CivilWarTalk
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You need to turn it on in the Threadloom Portal https://www.threadloom.com/signin
I had the same confusion at first, it's not in the XF control panel.
threadloom
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Computer vision.
threadloom
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@RobinHood: We use Microsoft's Cognitive Services AI tools. We haven't yet merged post text with image data, but it's on the roadmap, and I'm pretty excited about it, b/c I think it would be the first time someone has done something like this for forums.
threadloom
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Thanks for the feedback and suggestion @CivilWarTalk. I think you're probably right wrt discoverability and CTR. We'd like to do universal search like you suggest. It will take a little bit of elbow grease to do it well, but we'll talk about it here and keep you and the others here updated.
BTW, I love seeing TL on CWT. You have such a great forum and it's really fun to search through and discover the amazing content in your forum!
Optic
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Hi @threadloom,
Thinking of trying this out, looks great!
The custom tabs feature looks really great too to distinguish searches (as I'm also using WP for a blog)
Does the Image Search also return results for Blog pages or is it just forum results only?
Thinking of trying this out, looks great!
The custom tabs feature looks really great too to distinguish searches (as I'm also using WP for a blog)
Does the Image Search also return results for Blog pages or is it just forum results only?
threadloom
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Tealk
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Hi,
is it possible to add [TH] Article Manager to your search engine?
is it possible to add [TH] Article Manager to your search engine?
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