This is to notify our chat forum members that we have a number of updates to perform on this site:

This update has some major changes/improvements to the way eve handles searches. Because of this, the upgrade process involves some fairly major data conversion and reindexing.

When we perform the upgrade, the conversion process may result in some slowness for your site. We will be performing the upgrades *overnight*, when most sites have very little traffic, but we just want to make sure you are aware that some slowness may occur while the upgrade is in progress.

After the upgrade is complete, we will then have to reindex the site, and while the re-indexing is happening, all search features will be completely unavailable.

Search may be unavailable for up to 12-24 hours, depending on how long it takes to reindex the sites on a given server.

This is definitely an unusual upgrade in that so much back end processing must occur, but we hope that the improvements that make search more reliable make it worthwhile.

The upgrade has been scheduled for:
Thursday morning, starting at midnight Pacific, March 31th.

-Skin Biology

This is wonderful that the search function will be upgraded!

Thank you so much for listening to us, and continuing to make the forum a better place.

Deb

Ditto to what Deb said! Thank you, SkinBio, for making those changes for all of us.

Jana