Better search results, LTTStore Watcher Improvements

January 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Hey y'all, hope your 2025 is going well so far. Here is some stuff I worked on this past week.

Search: Transcripts are now chunked

The index for transcripts on The WAN Show Search is now chunked. This means that if there are multiple results for a search within a show, it will show one for each result instead of only including one result per show. This makes it easier to find things in transcripts, as the snippet might not have displayed the part you were looking for before.
This also opens up some possibly exciting new features to possibly add in the future.

LTTStore Watcher: Product Archive

I have made a page in the LTTStore Watcher specifically for products that are no longer on lttstore. Currently, this only includes products that have existed since Whenplane started watching LTTStore (in July 2024), but I hope to expand this in the future.

LTTStore Watcher: Speed Improvements

I have made more optimization for the LTTStore Watcher, especially to the Products page. Before a lot of unneeded product data was sent to the client, like all of the image URLs and the whole description for each product displayed. Removing these decreased the size of to a quarter of what it was before, which really speeds up page loading, especially on slower connections.
I was on a road trip earlier this week, so having slow and spotty internet really motivated me to get this done :p

LTTStore Watcher: Collections

The LTTStore Watcher now tracks collections on LTTStore. This has been gathering data for a few weeks, but I've been lazy and haven't created a web interface for it until now.
The interface still needs some work, which I hope to work on in the next few weeks.





I hope some of these new features can benefit at least some of you.
As always, if you have any suggestions, issues, or any other feedback, please let me know!