Anyone got big plans for the long weekend? Apparently schools across NZ are closed on Tuesday, a bit of a last minute surprise for poor planners like us!
We have family visiting, and I also hope to do an upgrade of the Lemmy image caching system “pictrs”. This will involve migrating the database into a postgres setup. It took 12 hours in my test run, and I expect it to perhaps take half that on the much beefier production server. In any case, if it’s not available it should only affect images, but in my test run the site remained perfectly functional somehow.
We also have a bit of a pre-fetching setup running that is pulling posts and comments from lemmy.world before they are sent to us. We hope this will help us get back in sync with lemmy.world, but at the very least it should help us get comments and posts through a bit quicker. We can’t pre-grab the votes so you may see a bunch of lemmy.world posts in New that have no votes.
We are currently tracking about 6 hours behind lemmy.world, but in theory people replying to you should now come through a lot quicker.