LJSear.ch - a service for those who need the files "Live Journal"

Do you want to find in the "Learn" century-old record, but can not, because the search options are limited to one month? You will free service LJSear.ch, Which contains the archives of the Russian-language LiveJournal for the period 2000-2015. Talk about it its creator Roman Ivanov (kukutz).

Roman Ivanov

Product Manager in the "Yandex". Has launched a blog search, personalized search "Yandex", several versions of "Yandex. Mail "services" Yandex. Lenta "," Ya.ru "," Yandex. Pictures "and several others. It is now engaged in "Yandex. Browser "and LJSear.ch.

What is LJSear.ch?

"Learn" This is more than a terabyte archives. Indexed and available for searching 340 million posts and comments 1 billion from 2000 to the autumn of 2015. And all this with the familiar to blog search tools: Limit by author, by date, by the community.

New entries are not indexed, as we consider our project as an archive, memorial.

The project is entirely non-profit, no advertising, and other ways to make money is not intended.

Why do I need service?

In the fall of 2015 search capability for blogs "Yandex" were limited to only last month. The explanation was simple: the vast majority of people are looking for informationAssociated with recent records, and deep search for them is redundant.

It's true. Last month is enough for tasks such as regular monitoring or a vanity search reviews of some recent events. But there is a problem and deeper research.

I believe that in the "Learn" happened, or at least was reflected almost all Russian-speaking culture of zero years. The value of this archive can not be overestimated. When the "Yandex" has closed archive search, I am very disappointed, because convinced that this collection of information must be retained for mankind. Well and I asked, "Yandex" archives, and he suddenly agreed and gave them.

Archive Blog quite unique, because so much can not be downloaded in the "Learn". Many magazines are removed by their authors, some broken and destroyed by hackers, in some cases, records are not deleted, but hidden under lock and key.

The last six months on I was responsible for ensuring that the data is not lost. I called on the help of friends, and among them there were those who agreed to help understand whether we can make the information available for the search. We have created a service LJSear.ch and apparently drove him to a sane state.

Volunteers were many?

Were found. A renowned expert in the field of UX Kohl Zayarny I came up with the design. Sasha Belyanskiy I took the BEM-vorstku and frontend on Node.js. Spaceinvaderz engaged systemic administration. Backend programming in PHP I started on the basis of the prototype itself, which made my friend tobe.

The biggest problem was the iron: who will pay for hosting? Friends assured that you can collect money for kraudfandingovyh sites, but I was skeptical. And there are wonderful people came to us from Servers.ru and offered to help. As a result, we have a great dedicated server with SSD to index and search backend plus cloud virtual server to the frontend.

Who may be interested in the project?

As new records are not indexed, the audience, which I reckon - are researchers. How literally researchers cultural layers of zero years, and a current or former users "Learn", who want to find something that was written in those years. And because I did not limit the maximum execution time Searches: investigator can wait for complex queries and minute, and two. Of course, simple queries are executed quickly, and if the service detects that the query is now a lot, it includes a controlled degradation, including limits timeout request.

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