I just tried to do a search for a set of words that I know appears in at least one post (I was trying to check if a thing had been used before), and it told me no suitable matches were found. I then, as a test, searched for the name of my ongoing YMtC contest series, and while it found plenty of results, the most recent was in January. that timing lines up with when we had that big spike in lag, so maybe something about the fix for that accidentally broke the search database and it stopped updating?
