UPDATE (May 25 2024): All issues mentioned in this blog post have been resolved. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE (May 13 2024): The local database issue has been resolved and performance should be back to normal. There’s still a slight oddity upstream, which is resulting in issues with popularity sorting. It may also result in unexpected behaviour in some areas of the site. For the most part, everything is now back to working as intended.

Just a quick heads up that we are experiencing both an upstream issue affecting some popularity results (mostly on less frequently viewed content) and a local database issue. Additionally, this is impacting the “Most Searched” results on the main page, which may be showing abnormal results.

The issue may also be resulting in slightly lower performance. The performance impact is not major; however, some aspects of the database are not behaving as we expect and it will lead to a slight performance decrease.

We are working hard on addressing these issues. Thanks for your patience!