Since the start of 2024 the vast majority of our development time has been taken up with moving Trip onto ‘the cloud’. Currently we use a dedicated server, this has served us well but the server was getting old and needed replacing, so moving to the cloud was a no-brainer. We didn’t expect it to take quite so long and we’re currently having to reindex over 5 million documents. This process will be over in the next day or so and then it’ll be on to testing, which will hopefully not take long.

Broadly, users shouldn’t notice any difference. We’ve upgraded the underlying search software which has improved relevancy scoring so that might make the results order change – but I can’t imagine that being huge. I’ll update, if necessary, during testing.

Sorry, boring post saying we’re busy doing stuff, in the background, that you’ll not notice – but I wanted to be transparent. After that we can move on to forward facing developments.