UPDATES:
1) Search is back up and running 100%, see here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3893094#p3893094
2) We've resolved a few of the slowness problems, but there may still be periods where things get bogged down. We'll work to limit those and remove them. Most of the time it will be on Sunday or Monday evenings when we have the most peeps online.
You may have noticed some growing pains (occasional slowness) as BYC sees record growth during this new Spring season. In an effort to keep your BYC experience fast and friendly we're taking the server into the shop for some maintenance. Unfortunately this will require that the forum be down for a while... we're hoping no more than a half hour.
Once the forum comes back online we'll need to rebuild the BYC Search system. This takes up to 14 hours to complete (imagine sorting and organizing 3,700,000 posts!). We doubt it will be able to be completed in one day, so the built in search tool may not return 100% complete results until we finish the very long process. Fortunately the forum will be up while we do this and you can always use the "Google Custom Search" at the top right of every page to find stuff.
We'll probably start the process in about 45 minutes (11:00 pm PST).
This will be a great opportunity to visit our sister sites:
www.TheEasyGarden.com
www.SufficientSelf.com
www.BackYardHerds.com
Thanks for your patience as we work through this process.
1) Search is back up and running 100%, see here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3893094#p3893094
2) We've resolved a few of the slowness problems, but there may still be periods where things get bogged down. We'll work to limit those and remove them. Most of the time it will be on Sunday or Monday evenings when we have the most peeps online.
You may have noticed some growing pains (occasional slowness) as BYC sees record growth during this new Spring season. In an effort to keep your BYC experience fast and friendly we're taking the server into the shop for some maintenance. Unfortunately this will require that the forum be down for a while... we're hoping no more than a half hour.
Once the forum comes back online we'll need to rebuild the BYC Search system. This takes up to 14 hours to complete (imagine sorting and organizing 3,700,000 posts!). We doubt it will be able to be completed in one day, so the built in search tool may not return 100% complete results until we finish the very long process. Fortunately the forum will be up while we do this and you can always use the "Google Custom Search" at the top right of every page to find stuff.
We'll probably start the process in about 45 minutes (11:00 pm PST).
This will be a great opportunity to visit our sister sites:
www.TheEasyGarden.com
www.SufficientSelf.com
www.BackYardHerds.com
Thanks for your patience as we work through this process.
