We’ve had a recent influx of users and traffic surge, and with that, more searches performed simultaneously. We’re starting to see search timeouts across about 1.2 million posts. What are you larger forums doing Search-wise? Have you moved outside of core Discourse search feature or is it still p…

Large forums with 1+ MM posts, how's your Search performing?

Jumanji May 7, 2020, 6:18pm 8

I’m not part of the Discourse team, but I found this using search.

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