Sorry all. We've let the Algolia team know and they're working on it.
nickv · 4h ago
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.
keepamovin · 1h ago
How much does this service "cost"? What's it run on?
dataflow · 7h ago
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.
dang · 3h ago
That's a third-party project but I've emailed Dan to let him know.
(That's a different Dan. A different Dan G in fact! but not a dang as far as I know.)
dangrossman · 2h ago
Thanks for the heads-up! HN Replies is up and running though, and notified me of a test comment I just made. If anyone would like to troubleshoot their subscription, feel free to email me.
dataflow · 21m ago
Thanks for replying! Is the email necessary? It seems it's at least affecting 2-3 folks who replied here, so if you might be able to just look into email sending/delivery for us, that would be wonderful.
dataflow · 2h ago
Oh I had no idea that's not you. Thank you!
setsewerd · 6h ago
I normally use the Harmonic app and it hasn't been loading post replies the last 2 days or so, citing a likely Algolia issue. Maybe a related issue.
busymom0 · 6h ago
HACK app on iOS, macOS and android works along with the push notifications for replies:
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.
flashblaze · 2h ago
I'm getting 500 after visiting
postalcoder · 1h ago
Shouldn't be happening, please try again!
busymom0 · 9h ago
I became aware of it last night when a few users emailed me of chronological data in my app being outdated since Friday.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.
nickv · 5h ago
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.
nickv · 4h ago
Quick update.
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 :( )
indigodaddy · 8h ago
Ah man then how do I know if I beat the other person for the latest simonw or rachelbythebay submission?
andai · 8h ago
The "from site" feature is native to HN.
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.
awkwardpotato · 7h ago
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.
belter · 7h ago
You can Google or use LLMs they index HN too.
hoherd · 1h ago
This outage helped me work through my backlog of articles. I've also reduced the frequency that I refresh the feed. Silver linings :)
Ms-J · 6h ago
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.
(That's a different Dan. A different Dan G in fact! but not a dang as far as I know.)
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
I am the developer.
This has been going on for me, for a couple of years, I think.
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.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvUxIaD-cY&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5t...