03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.
29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and "obfuscated" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.
08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.
15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.
16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
Eve since the search went down and came back up recently I'm having a problem.
The search goes okay but anything I try and download fails.
I get a litle red circle with a white x.
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Also, I use another newsreader for a small numer of groups and with that I'm having no problems. It's just Usenet explorer that can't download anything.
the red circle appears (you are talking about the search results view apparently) e.g. when you mark something for download&save and then press "cancel".
also it could happen when e.g. server db was corrupted somehow but it has never happened in the past, if i have a proof there is even one corruption i would run integrity check and replace damaged files from parallel running copy.
what exact download/save option do you invoke?
can you give me an example of a search string and then which exact results you are trying to import (any example which gives you the error circle)?
quite strange, if it can search it can also import message-ids, i checked even the case if you would keep the search results view opened from yesterday when i changed the configuration.
alex wrote:are you sure you tried exactly the same searches?
Yes, i searched eureka*xvid and slayers*revolution and then tried to download files. I also tried a few other random searches. Whatever the glitch was, its gone now.