>     This error check has always existed in the search code, but most  
> people never see it. This is a sanity check on the since_id parameter  
> to prevent people using ones in the future. The problem yesterday was  
> specifically that several back-ends fell behind. If you hit an up-to- 
> date back-end and collected a max_id, then hit an out-of-date back-end  
> it would complain that you were using a since_id in the future from  
> its perspective. We've corrected most of the back-ends but we have a  
> few more upgrades this evening to fix the last few. Sorry for the  
> delayed reply but I need to focus on fixing and not email.

Got it. Is there a way, maybe, to try to detect this condition specifically
on the backend and maybe return a more generic "Search is running behind"?
It was really throwing users for a loop (and worse blaming the app ;-).

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