The things you can do with search

Same. Anyone else?

Server Error

We're sorry, there was a temporary error when we tried to process your request.

The reason was: The search query took too long and has been cancelled

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This means what it says, the search took too long.

There are over 6 million comments (including private messages), and if your search is across the comments and you've been too vague, it will take too long (longer than 30 seconds).

Make your search more specific.

You can see the effect of specificity on searches that do work:

• 10 seconds = bottom bracket
  
• 1.5 seconds = sks bottom bracket
  
  

What are you searching for, and can you make it more specific.

The worst possible search is probably going to be for words like: bike, frame, ride.

I should add... once a search has been done, then it will be much faster in the minutes afterwards. Why? Because then all of the comments that matched a search would be pulled into memory, and subsequent searches will read from RAM and not the SSD... the difference is significant. Hours later, and the comments will have left RAM and the search for non-specific terms will be slower over all comments again.