[UPDATE] Search Issues - Places Turned Back On, Bug on Estates

Friday, December 8th, 2006 at 2:55 PM by: Jeska Linden

[6:22PM PST] Update: We were able to recreate the issue Torley explained below. Currently when you are on the Mainland, you are unable to search on estates and when you are on an estate you can only search on that estate. We’re currently investigating this further, please watch this space for further updates.

[6:03 PM PST] We’ve heard numerous concerns from our Residents and confirmed there’s currently problems in Search > Places where locations aren’t visible when you search from an Estate (island), and vice-versa on the Mainland. We’re investigating this, please bear with us while we sort it out. -Torley

[2:55PM PST] We have turned Search Places back on, which means that all of the Search functionality should be returned. Please note, we have changed search such that:

- When searching for Places on the mainland, you will only be able to view results from the mainland and from estates who have marked “Access for Mainland” in their estate tool.
- When searching for Places on an estate which is not accessible by the mainland, you will see both results from that estate, from the mainland and from any estates where “Access for Mainland” is enabled.

Thanks again for your patience, we will continue to monitor the search.

[2:22PM PST] First, thank you all for your patience while we have been handling the current search issues (for background on the issues, please read Torley’s summary). For the next hour or so we will be performing a number of potential fixes and watching the results closely. If things start to fail, we’ll correct it immediately.

Please watch this blog for further updates.

2 Responses to “[UPDATE] Search Issues - Places Turned Back On, Bug on Estates”

  1. 1 Official Linden Blog » Blog Archive [UPDATE] Summary of Search functionality restored so far « Says:

    [...] [Dec. 8 @ 2:58 PM PST] We’re continuing to provide updates, please see Jeska’s post for the most recent news. [...]

  2. 2 MMODump.com » Places search finally restored - sort of Says:

    [...] At 2:55PM SLT (Second Life Time) on Friday, Search > Places was finally restored to service, after essentially a full week of downtime. By 18:00 SLT, it had become apparent that there was still one or more problems, and by 18:22 SLT, it was apparent that the problem was ‘estates‘. Basically, you can’t seem to find things that are in another estate. [...]