Link creation window is slow on blog with lots of posts

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 16, 2017 at 4:57 pm

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  @jimgrey that suggests to me firefox isn’t really clearing the data. I know there’s a command to do it manually. I’ll see if I can find that and post it here.

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 16, 2017 at 4:58 pm

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  Here we go. Try putting this in the console while viewing wordpress.com:

  indexedDB.deleteDatabase(‘calypso’);

  That should clear the offline database and let it reload.

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  jimgrey · Member · Feb 16, 2017 at 10:59 pm

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  I executed that code in the console and restarted Firefox, and bam, the link dialog is speedy again.

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 16, 2017 at 11:55 pm

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  @jimgrey thank you. Can you continue to use one browser (if possible) and let me know when it slows down? I’ll try to do the same here.

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  jimgrey · Member · Feb 16, 2017 at 11:58 pm

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  Absolutely. Now that I’ve reset Firefox I’ll stick with it. Thanks for hanging in there with me!

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  supernovia · Staff · Feb 17, 2017 at 6:26 pm

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  Cheers! Thanks for your patience. :)

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  jimgrey · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 10:47 am

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  Hi! It’s been over a month now and I’ve been seeing a steady slowdown of this link box over this time. The link box is back to being very hard to use. Happy to grab video if you need it but it’s not any different from the other videos I’ve shared on this already.

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  supernovia · Staff · Mar 23, 2017 at 6:58 pm

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  Quick question, Jim. When you’re in the link creation window do you tend to scroll much through the post list or do you search for posts?

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  jimgrey · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 7:58 pm

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  I do tend to — in large part because search results could be better optimized. If I search for a specific post title very often that post title not only isn’t the first hit, but I have to scroll considerably to find it.

  In the old editor, a search for a specific post title usually returns that post as the first hit.

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  jimgrey · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 8:01 pm

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  FWIW, 98% of the time I search in the link box, I’m searching for a specific post title and must scroll to find it in the results. I’d sure like it if the results were optimized so that searching for a specific title would bubble the associated post high in the search results!

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  supernovia · Staff · Mar 23, 2017 at 9:47 pm

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  @jimgrey thank you. I think we may have pinned something down this time. And I really appreciate the suggestion to optimize by title. Let me see what we can do on that.

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  jimgrey · Member · Mar 24, 2017 at 1:28 am

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  woot! Thanks for working with me on this!

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  supernovia · Staff · Mar 24, 2017 at 5:40 pm

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  I’ll update this thread when it’s fixed, or folks can follow this issue here.

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  jimgrey · Member · Apr 9, 2017 at 1:01 pm

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  One more bit of info possibly related to this.

  I created a contact form on a post (that goes live on Monday) and tested it. The name I used in the contact form now appears as a search item.

  https://www.screencast.com/t/sslXzocOO

  Makes me wonder just what all Search is cataloging. I wouldn’t expect to see the results from a contact form show up here. When I link to that item, save the post, preview, and click the link, I get “oops, that page can’t be found.”

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  supernovia · Staff · Apr 10, 2017 at 3:15 pm

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  Whoah, that’s interesting. I’ll pass that along.