Search Outage - Impacting hashtag / similar searching Saturday 5th August 2023 12:45:38


We have identified an issue with our search service after the reboot of the physical host it sits on earlier today which we believe is impacting views for the advanced dashboard and may be impacting other aspects of the service.

There were two issues, the first being a false positive after my local Firefox updated, and it turned out AdBlocker Ultimate was blocking a number of our cached files. I would suggest (given we don't actually serve any adds!) that you add an exception for mastodonapp.uk and it's subdomains if you have an add-blocker.

Our second issue was the Elasticsearch container running on one of our VM's did not auto start, despite the container auto starting. We are looking to fix this for the long term!