Not only your likes

Previously we allowed search only by your own likes. But after we've introduced collections and feeds, we came up with simple thought:

"My feed is so interesting and full of relevant information, why don't we use that information for search?".

Indeed, why to limit the search with only data you own, let's build the community to help each other for better search results.

Search your feed

From today, while you searching you will see both results from own favorites and favorites of other users from feed. The results were impressive.

This is also one of the encouraging point to follow the best collections and share own collections.

Collections suggestion

Also, while you search you will see some relevant collections we suggest to follow.

By following collections, you will make your feed more interesting and search results better.

For now, improved search is available for search extensions. If you have installed the extension earlier, it should be updated automatically. For Safari users, please visit this link and download it manually.

With "Basic Search" being re-enabled we are moving further to "Advanced Search" features that will appear in Pro accounts. It's not too late to be added to our Pro subscribers list, please click on the button below.

We are sorry it happened and do our best to do not allow to happen it again.

Thanks for understanding,

And some geeky info for ones who likes details :)

Friday near 6.00 PM GMT we've noticed slowdown of our services. Almost all requests to application ended up with HTTP 504 and it was not possible to access neither dashboard nor search. Quick health check showed that our MongoDB is under heavy load and experiencing high "Locked" percentage (>120 %) that basically paralyzed the service.

Database been hit really hard, due to a lot of new writes to collection that contains likes. The collection already contained few big indexes, including full-text one, each write caused recalculations that immediately affected performance.

As first action to unblock web application was stop of Collector, Pulse and Search services to reduce load to database. So, the application continued to work, you could access your likes, feed and collections but without access to new data.

After emergency actions, we have both optimized MongoDB part (by reducing number of indexes) and code to reduce number of database writes. After redeploy it showed that DB loading is on acceptable level and application experience is fine.

The likes collection is already huge, full text index turns to be bottleneck, so we had to be eliminate it. Search remains disabled, we will fix it very soon.