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garambo
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Reply #30 on: May 01, 2024, 20:57
Thank you @Jatoba! I’m really glad you find Retrosearch useful! Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestion 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2046
Reply #31 on: May 02, 2024, 13:01
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Yes! I do use it on a near daily basis now and love it. My only gripe would be to retain the football results a tad bit longer on the page before they get replaced. (maybe an archive or using pagination?) Thanks for your hard work!
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garambo
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16 MB Posts: 30 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #32 on: May 02, 2024, 15:12
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Quote My only gripe would be to retain the football results a tad bit longer on the page before they get replaced. (maybe an archive or using pagination?) Thank you Bolkonskij, that's a good point, I'll add this to the next features to add!
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caiocozza
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1 MB Posts: 1 Retro programming enthusiast
Reply #33 on: June 15, 2024, 15:59
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This is great. Thanks for the effort.
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Jatoba
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256 MB Posts: 270 System 9 Newcomer!
Reply #34 on: February 19, 2025, 19:16
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Sadly, I have noticed this hasn't been working for more than a week. Did something happen?
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 977 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #35 on: February 20, 2025, 01:26
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I guess old age caught up with it. Either that dude is getting faster or we are getting slower. :O
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1192 System 7, today and forever
Reply #36 on: February 20, 2025, 17:10
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Wait, what? I just used frogfind.com to look up something and I used it less than a week ago (2-4 days ago?)
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garambo
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16 MB Posts: 30 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #37 on: February 20, 2025, 18:36
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Sorry about the downtime, retrosearch is back!
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Jatoba
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256 MB Posts: 270 System 9 Newcomer!
Reply #38 on: February 21, 2025, 12:23
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Thanks, @garambo! @cballero FrogFind has been fine all along, it was RetroSearch.org that was down. RetroSearch > FrogFind (IMO)
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garambo
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16 MB Posts: 30 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #39 on: October 19, 2025, 19:35
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Hi everyone! Long time, no see! I was finally able to get some time to tackle some pressing issues retrosearch had. The deployed version available on http://retrosearch.org should be stable now, so I hope you all have a better experience when using it. I will try to get back into some new projects, but I would like to continue supporting the website for as long as it is useful for someone.
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 611 Village idiot
Reply #40 on: October 19, 2025, 20:20
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Do keep retrosearch around, I love it! Thanks for working on it
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1192 System 7, today and forever
Reply #41 on: October 19, 2025, 22:14
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The update's great, thanks so much Garambo! I enjoy your search engine too, and appreciate all of your efforts to keep it going and to make it better!
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2046
Reply #42 on: October 20, 2025, 08:00
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I had been using retrosearch.org often, since I like it much more than the other retro search engine. Not just because of the football results :-) but I noticed it was unavailable here and there (I sent you PNs whenever I noticed) but eventually when it was gone for some time (?) dropped it from the bookmarks, thinking it was dead. It's great news that it isn't, and that you intend to keep it going! I'll re-add it to my bookmarks and start using it again on my IIci. Thank you for running it!
Last Edit: October 20, 2025, 08:02 by Bolkonskij
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ShinobiKenobi
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256 MB Posts: 378 System 7 fan
Reply #43 on: October 20, 2025, 19:43
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I also use it when I use my PPC Macs. I love it, so thank you Garambo for your excellent work! I also noticed it wasn't working the last several times I tried to use it, but I'm glad it's still there! 
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garambo
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16 MB Posts: 30 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #44 on: May 16, 2026, 16:38
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Hi! Back from the dead, I suppose! Reviving the thread to give you some updates. I haven't been actively looking into what was going on on the publicly hosted instance of retrosearch in a while and I noticed the great amount of instability and errors in the last few months. To put it into few words, retrosearch.org was affected by insanely heavy traffic from AI bots and crawlers, distributed across the globe: from the monitoring data collected in the last month, there over 1 million HTTP requests per day, that were definitely too much for my little machine hosting the service. The result was constant crashing, rate limiting on the services retrieving data such as news and football results and a service that, of course, wasn't serving its own purpose: offering simple and easy access to information for people who, like us, enjoy using older computers (Macs, specifically!) I've been experimenting in my free time to improve this situation, so a couple of changes would make things easier for those who enjoyed retrosearch: - improved application HTTP client, less prone to failures - added nginx layer and rate limiting - improved firewall rules on the host machine - added Cloudflare proxied domain protection (without the analytics, of course) Over the course of the last three days it seems that the service is back to normal, so, in case you want to give it a try, please feel free to do so!
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