Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
I'd love to read a post-mortem.
Me too
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#72Came here to see if I was crazy. Should be an interesting post-mortem, I wonder if someone dropped the production database...
Autocomplete in the search bar still works, so there’s some data out there.
Most of my searching is through the firefox address bar so I didn't notice, I just kept coming up on empty search pages. It did not compute at first, I must have done 3-4 searches before I realized what was happening.
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#73Has this ever happened with another large search engine?
Yes. : https://www.cnet.com/news/google-goes-down-for-5-minutes-int... "Google suffered an outage late on Friday night, though you might not have noticed -- it only went down for five minutes. During that brief window, Internet traffic around the world dropped by a massive 40 per cent, according to Web analytics firm GoSquared, Sky News Online reports. " Bing also: https://www.pcworld.com/article/183770/bings_30_minu…
also a case in 2009 when google flagged all search results as malware for 55 minutes:
https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/google-flags-whole-interne...
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Autocomplete in the search bar still works, so there’s some data out there.
I would have thought that the type of person compelled to use DDG, would disable autocomplete.
I don’t use DDG. I just followed this HN link, then tried typing some other things in the search bar.
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#75Image and video search works. Regular text search, maps and news are down. Did they forget to bay their Bing bill? EDIT: scratch that. DDG is back in business again. I would love to read a post-mortem.
Do they still use Bing ? I thought DDG had in-house search db.
They still use Bing, and others.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
"These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)."
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#77Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
... that's better than a lot of postmortems I've had on the job. Like the junior employee who insisted we not write one at all when we lost the ability to deploy to a test server, because "that wasn't our fault" and "it probably won't happen again".
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#79Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
CIA is back in the office, you can finally tell them that their endpoint broke everything
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#80Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
The Mondays? No, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
One time I was at a festival where it wouldn't stop raining. It had been a shit show. Come Monday, all the cars were stuck in mud. Then there were tornado warnings. Then they let down a damn up river and the whole area started to flood. Whilst holding down a shade structure, waiting for updates on the tornado path, and standing in slowly rising water, someone made the joke:
"Mondays"