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.
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.
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.
I became aware of it last night when a few users emailed me of chronological data in my app being outdated since Friday.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.
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.
Hey folks, sorry for the delay on this. We're investigating and I promise a response on what happened here. Will update in a bit when I have more, and will make sure to let you all know what happened.
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 :( )
I just happened to be checking the website "manually" because hnrss.org stopped updating, this explains why lol. Glad to know it'll hopefully be resolved soon.
Glad there is a thread about it as it seems to have happened before. Also if using certain IP ranges, sometimes the search is forbidden. It would be great to have a more robust search without the blocking.
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(That's a different Dan. A different Dan G in fact! but not a dang as far as I know.)
This has been going on for me, for a couple of years, I think.
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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?
There are dozens, dozens of us that use hn.aloglia, much better interface than the front page.
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.
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 :( )
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.