It's frustrating finding out that something you look after hasn't been working for a minute, an hour a day and doubly so when you find out that other people knew, spent time talking about it but didn't bother to tell you.

true , but :) you know, you can , like, write a self consistency checker :) if new files uploaded (or its a new day), and index is not reindexed (days older), sound alarm :)

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