Search took too long when uploading content

Hello everyone,

Recently I started getting a few messages about "search taking too long" just after I clicked upload, voiding all the tagging I have done for the post. Now I know that people of the member rank can only have searches up to two seconds, however I don't really think uploading an image has anything to do with a search?

Edit: Here's the most recent post I've got this message with: post #11234369

Whenever a timeout happens, whether it's a search timeout or otherwise, it shows the same search timeout page. So the server timed out while trying to upload the post.

This actually happened to me too a few hours ago, and it's the second time now that I've gotten a timeout just for trying to post something.

CommentaryRequest said in forum #435239:

Whenever a timeout happens, whether it's a search timeout or otherwise, it shows the same search timeout page. So the server timed out while trying to upload the post.

This actually happened to me too a few hours ago, and it's the second time now that I've gotten a timeout just for trying to post something.

Just to load this page it took quite the time and I see a sudden decrease in approval rates of the last hour so I guess something site-wide is going on. Thanks for informing and letting me know about it.

Edit : 🙏🙏🙏

This has happened to me a couple of times in the last few weeks. I’m in the habit of hitting ctrl+a, ctrl+c whenever it lags after I post, just in case.

Placeholder1996 said in forum #435251:

This has happened to me a couple of times in the last few weeks. I’m in the habit of hitting ctrl+a, ctrl+c whenever it lags after I post, just in case.

I started to develop that habit too in the recent times, I guess we have to be careful about it going on forward. I can't help but wonder though since the search time of Gold+ members are longer if their uploads are also affected the same way (less prone to timing out 🤔)

For me when this happens, just refreshing the page (F5) is enough for it to try and resubmit the upload, idk if this is just a Firefox thing though.

Unbreakable said in forum #435263:

For me when this happens, just refreshing the page (F5) is enough for it to try and resubmit the upload, idk if this is just a Firefox thing though.

Huh, that sounds interesting... I also use Firefox and I've always went back a page which would reset my tag list, however I will definitely give this a try next time, thanks for the tip!