We just had a major release on http://www.instructables.com/
We have been running solr for months as a band-aid, this release integrates solr deeply. Solr takes care of the 'browse' functionality and a nice interface for people to manage their library of uploaded images/files. This replaced an SQL faceting system that was maxing out the DB. The URL structure maps to a dismax query: http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:instructable/ http://www.instructables.com/tag/keyword:bike/ http://www.instructables.com/tag/keyword:bike/?q=led http://www.instructables.com/tag/keyword:electronics/rss.xml The library interface is javascript talking directly to solr (through a proxy) using wt=JSON. You will need to login and upload a bunch of stuff to see this in action... The proxy links to a dismax handler so we are only exposing the 'query' interface directly to logged in users. We are running SOLR-20 with a hibernate-solr auto link. All changes are pooled for 30 seconds on the client side then sent to solr that has a 1 second auto-commit time. As files/images are uploaded, they are immediately sent to solr and the client blocks until indexed - this makes sure users see the images after uploading them. Thanks for solr. It is great. ryan