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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Mar 31, 2016.

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  1. SilverOtter

    SilverOtter Seventh Year

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    Oct 1, 2017 #101
    It looks like the search is currently down.
     
  2. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Oct 2, 2017 #102
    And back up.
     
  3. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Oct 4, 2017 #103
    New feature (one of many to come): open tracking. When logged in, Scryer will log the stories you open for the purpose of telling you which stories you've already opened. Coming soon, a way to clear this data or specific entries you're embarrassed about.

    Screen Shot 2017-10-03 at 21.20.45.png

    Additionally, the site's indexing backend has been significantly upgraded. Along with improved indexing quality, this has lead to significant site speedups (searches are ~53% faster). More to come there as well.

    Next up:
    1) Opt-out/clearing data on story opens.
    2) Search by ship.
    3) Better ship detection, even when the author has not added it to the FFN metadata.
     
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  4. oakgem217

    oakgem217 First Year

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    Oct 7, 2017 #104
    I tried doing a basic search, but when I tried including the summary keywords (-slash, bashing, etc.), I got a 500 error
     
  5. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Oct 7, 2017 #105
    Can you either link the search or the request ID in the error so I can check the logs?
     
  6. oakgem217

    oakgem217 First Year

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    Oct 7, 2017 #106
    RequestId: e7604f7a-29a2-46e1-80a2-7354b7b0b0ba
     
  7. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Oct 8, 2017 #107
    '!' is a special token in Lucene Query Syntax, so '-!' is an invalid query, it'd have to be written as '-\!' to escape the special token. In any case, full-text search doesn't retain special characters like '!', so it's not usable as a part of the query.

    I've made this more clear by capturing the ElasticSearch parse exception and returning a more helpful (still cryptic, but more helpful) error message:

    Screen Shot 2017-10-08 at 13.14.04.png
     
    Last edited: Oct 8, 2017
  8. oakgem217

    oakgem217 First Year

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    Oct 8, 2017 #108
    Alright, sounds good :)
     
  9. John1057

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    Don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but i can't erase fandoms selected. Which basically means i'm stuck searching harry potter every time no matter what. This appears to only affect the very first category of fandoms as every other area i can select a crossover fandom or character or genre and then press backspace or click the x to get rid of it. However harry in the fandoms box can not be deleted.

    Minor work around was that i had some saved searches that fill that box without harry potter, but coming in not signed in, i can't delete the selection.

    This occurs on chrome, internet explorer, and android chrome beta that i've confirmed.
     
  10. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Nov 17, 2017 #110
    Add a second fandom, then you can remove HP. It's unclear to me why the behavior changed, I haven't messed with the frontend in a while.
     
  11. John1057

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    Nov 17, 2017 #111
    On Further testing, it may actually be clearing the fandom but not updating what is displayed as evidence here when i can have harry potter 4 separate times

    Hitting backspace does not delete any of those. Hitting the x clears out some but not all. It's very weird.
     

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  12. zekses

    zekses First Year

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    Nov 17, 2017 #112
    Scryer slash tagger probably needs manual exclusions, because it tags fics like "Lily and the Art of Being Sisyphus" as slash. It's perfectly reasonable given how it works, but completely incorrect nevertheless.
     
  13. draykfyre

    draykfyre Second Year DLP Supporter

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    Nov 18, 2017 #113
    Could you add The Hobbit to the index? Thanks!
     
  14. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Nov 24, 2017 #114
    Should be indexed in a few hours.
     
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  15. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Nov 26, 2017 #115
    FWIW, this issue is resolved now.
     
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  16. AceOfSpades

    AceOfSpades Slug Club Member DLP Supporter

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    Jan 19, 2018 #116
    Does Scryer have the ability to return users who favorite'd a particular author or story? I feel like I remember that being a feature early on, though it may have been one of Scryer's predecessors.
     
  17. Zombie

    Zombie Black Philip Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐

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    Jan 19, 2018 #117
    There used to be a favorites search
     
  18. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Jan 19, 2018 #118
    Not in Scryer. It'd be something I'd consider if there was enough demand; currently I don't index users.
     
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  19. AceOfSpades

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    Jan 19, 2018 #119
    It may be useful in a recommendation engine if that's in the cards. It's another dimension of data for measuring story similarity and potential 'likability'.
     
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  20. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Jan 19, 2018 #120
    Agreed -- recommendation engine would probably be the only reason I'd index that information. It might be something I do this year, but there are other quality-of-life improvements I'd like to make to Scryer first.
     
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