Yes the database hosting is still down, for over a week now. Tracking issue for the current outage: https://github.com/macports/macports-webapp/issues/424
Search earlier this year webapp issues, for more details. As you noticed, you can get any port's detail pages if you insert the exact port name to make a complete URL: https://ports.macports.org/port/cmake/details/ I also like using my Watchlist page to easily nav to my followed ports. On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM grey <[email protected]> wrote: > I am only just getting back to some physical keyboards after Ombra > Festival earlier this month, but it still seems to be going on, at > least for me? > > I thought maybe it would be an excuse to try out > https://macports-new.arjunsalyan.com/ (as leery as I am of any > so-called A"I" agent assisted code; to quote an old "joke" in the > SPICE world: 'never trust the autorouter!' [insert comedically heinous > image of logic traces here] ;) but it similarly doesn't seem to be > returning any results; so maybe both sites are attempting to pull data > from something out of service? > > e.g. https://macports-new.arjunsalyan.com/port/snac functions, but > searching for "snac" does not return any results: > https://macports-new.arjunsalyan.com/ports?q=snac > > Similarly, https://ports.macports.org/port/snac functions but > searching for "snac"? No results: > https://ports.macports.org/search/?q=snac&name=on > > It seems as if searching based on maintainer is also currently not > returning results, e.g. > > https://ports.macports.org/search/?selected_facets=maintainers_exact:artkiver > > Though, at least in that instance the new test site seems to fare a > bit better, e.g. > https://macports-new.arjunsalyan.com/ports?maintainer=artkiver > > Anyway, it seems as if folks were already aware of the outage but I > would have thought perhaps it would have been resolved by now? > > Regardless, I hope everyone is doing well over the holidays! > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via > macports-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Same here. This started a few hours ago. This is known to happen from > time to time, due to website hosting issues. Just wait for the website > maintainer to fix. USA holiday just started, so it might take a while. > Most recent incident, September: > > https://github.com/macports/macports-webapp/issues/415 > > > > Meanwhile, I can get fully functioning pages for specific ports if I > enter the exact URL. For example: > > https://ports.macports.org/port/graphviz-devel > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM Nils Breunese <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I don’t know if this is a known issue, but currently I don’t get any > search results on https://ports.macports.org <https://ports.macports.org/ > >. > >> > >> Nils. >
