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Search Issues
UPDATE (@dd32): All issues should be resolved as of 2:15AM UTC. The root cause was a change in the behaviour of Jetpack Search which we rely upon causing queries to fail. A network outage had caused issues for some queries earlier in the day, but was completely unrelated.
You may have noticed that search is acting up. Per @dd32:
w.org is experiencing a few network issues at present in the datacenter, itās likely that connectivity between the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. and wp.comās elastic search is up-and-down, and when itās down, search will be offline.
Yes, that means search for plugins too.
Thereās nothing to do but wait at this point. It may be up and down while the connectivity is being sorted.