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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, maybe the contractor thought he'd get more work fixing it but he was long gone by the time I got it so i never met him

One of bugs I got was performance because the search didn't work, with about 600,000 assets in database it would timeout searching for one by exact match on ID. It took 45 minutes to return 1 result.