[tor-bugs] #17938 [Globe]: Unable to find my relay

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#17938: Unable to find my relay
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 Reporter:  phranck  |          Owner:  Frank Gregor
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  Low      |      Milestone:
Component:  Globe    |        Version:
 Severity:  Trivial  |     Resolution:
 Keywords:           |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Ah, here's what happens: the search criteria are too broad and would
 return too many results, which is why Globe only fetches a random set of
 50 results.   There are currently about 300 relays from Germany, so the
 chances are quite high (5:1) that your relay is not included.  Now, when
 you sort those 50 by advertised bandwidth, it just sorts those 50, rather
 than making another request to fetch the 50 fastest relays by advertised
 bandwidth.  To Globe's defense, it indicates that your search is too
 broad: "To avoid too many requests, we limit our results to 50 items. If
 you want better results, try to use a search word or apply some filters."

 Is this a bug or just less user-friendly than it could be?  Well, it's not
 clearly wrong, given that there's a warning.  But Globe could also fetch
 all results in a single request and then show them in a paginated view.
 I'll leave this to the Globe maintainer.  (I'm just commenting from the
 perspective of the Onionoo maintainer, because Onionoo provides the data
 for Globe, and this sounded like a potential Onionoo problem, which is not
 the case.)

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