Announcement: posts will now be indexed via Answer Overflow

[cloud stratus]

Hi everyone, this is a note to let everyone know that we are starting to index our Discord with Answer Overflow. Please note that your posts will now appear outside our Discord. You can opt out of this with the Answer Overflow commands.

[quartz lintel]

you consent by default btw

[cloud stratus]

Oh the instructions on this aren't very clear...lol.

[lyric fern]

Welcome to Answer Overflow! If your community has any questions about it feel free to send them my way

[lyric fern]

I’ll update the onboarding info so this is clearer sorry about that

[cloud stratus]

Thanks! 🙂

[cloud stratus]

I'm still not sure if we're fully operational tbh hehe

[lyric fern]

It looks like you’re all set up correctly! You should start to see indexed pages within the next few days

I’ll see what I can do for speeding up that process in the future so it’s more obvious

[cloud stratus]

Thanks! See I did mention we'd come onboard soon, it just took us some time ;-). Thanks for building an amazing tool for the whole OSS community.

[lyric fern]

right back at you, it’s great being able to support OSS tools love what you guys are doing with SolidJS

[mighty zodiac]

what are the channels being indexed?

[quartz lintel]

only #1047251592610599032 afaik

yet to see it work though

ah wait
it actually works
I think
https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/722131463138705510

[mighty zodiac]

no results found 💀

[quartz lintel]

what do you mean?

[mighty zodiac]

Seems to be giving error 500 for searches and then saying that no results were found which is a bit misleading

[quartz lintel]

it works well for me
the threads just arent indexed by google yet

[mighty zodiac]

Im searching on the link you posted

[quartz lintel]

this might be interesting for @lyric fern

if one can reproduce

[lyric fern]

Mind checking the "Authorized apps" (settings->authorized apps) section of your discord to see if answer overflow has permission to view the servers you're in?

my guess is it may be missing that permission causing the servers check to 500 resulting in it not showing results

either way that error message should be better than "no results found" so that part needs fixing

[lyric fern]

👍 thanks for sending that over, that looks right - i'll investigate what else the cause could be

signing out and back in again also may fix it

[mighty zodiac]

Im stuck on a bucle now

[lyric fern]

Did you ever click the "globally ignore account" button in the /manage-account menu?

[mighty zodiac]

Yes because I didn't know which channels were indexed

[lyric fern]

In the database your account is listed to be ignored which is likely what's causing the sign in issues

[lyric fern]

Gotcha, looks like your account may be in a bit of a weird state then

If you use the /manage-account command and unignore your account, then try signing in that may work

When you mark your account as ignored, it prevents it from ever storing your discord account in the database, which would cause the sign in flow to fail since it can't create your discord info

[mighty zodiac]

I understand the issue. By authorizing the app I am allowing to get my discord info but not allowing to index my messages when I choose to ignore globally, so may that well could be improved 🙂

At least that's what global ignore account says on the message here

[lyric fern]

Yep, when you sign in, it fetches your information from the Discord API, but then where it's failing is it goes to write that information to our database but since your account is in the ignored accounts table it's stopping there to not store information about a user who wanted their account to be ignored

I think it's a pretty rare scenario that that occurs but still needs to be fixed up for some better UX so you understand whats happening