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I think I remember the populate.py script would always crash the AWS instance because it used up too much memory, and so we restored to using this hacky split-file way of populating ES. Since it's a really small script, I'll try porting it to Go and see if that helps at all.

Somehow we should make sure that we don't regress in the quality of results returned by Elastic Search. We will be tempted to tweak the parameters, and we should make sure that the results get better overall. For now I'm just documenting some words that I used to check the sanity of the results:

心
こころ
こんにちは
hello
konnichiwa
test

Would like to be able to save words to multiple lists.

for example "Tesuto" does not highlight テスト.

Can't have 📗 forever

Since our site is the fastest site ever, this is barely necessary, but on a slow connection (like a phone) it will be nice to have an indication that something is still happening. Maybe an innovative loading bar in the search input box itself, as a thin line beneath it. Just an idea, we can look into alternatives.

Haven't looked in a while but we might be able to clean up some of the scripts.

"The results seem to fly off of the screen to the right on Firefox 27.0.1, OS X 10.9.1" - my friend

On pages that are not the index page, like http://nihongo.io/to_take_it_easy , you can type and see the loading bar, but the page content does not change.

I tried many values for common_boost but none of them seemed to change the results at all. It's also apparently deprecated:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-boost-field.html#function-score-instead-of-boost

Something is going on with furigana in the radix tree, not sure what

@hermanschaaf not sure whether you'll like this idea or not (maybe better to keep it simple?) but it might be nice to have a page that links to other Japanese learning resources, as well as Amazon links to books like Genki, etc.

If we can't search ES for example, show users an error instead of a blank result set.

We should maybe consider ordering by common -> exact match -> contains

memory quota is being exceeded on startup on heroku, need to figure out a way to reduce the amount of memory the app uses

after porting nihongo to use the same search code as chinesedict, we lost highlighting

removed it originally just so i had less code to work with

Need to add more links to items (English words, katakana words, for example) and also use the word Japanese Dictionary or something like that more often.