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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 20:28:49 JST FediTips has moved!

   • Helen Czerski
   • Claire Barnes

   @ClaireFromClare @helenczerski

   Very interesting!

   That looks like some kind of bug, the difference is in the wrong direction and absolutely massive.

   Sometimes you do get a difference but normally it's the other way round (with original page having lots of posts).

   I'll try to see if anyone has reported this on the github.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 20:33:31 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Helen Czerski
     • Claire Barnes

     @ClaireFromClare @helenczerski

     All of the posts that are missing on the original page were made within a few days of each other, which might fit the temporary server glitch theory?

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     Claire Barnes (clairefromclare@h-net.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 21:53:35 JST Claire Barnes

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     • Helen Czerski
     • Frank Sonntag

     @feditips Maybe! Thanks for investigating. Let's ask the FediScience administrator @FrankSonntag - Frank, is this possible?
     (I saw the missing posts on original page about 12 hours ago, so the glitch if any might have been in the time window approx 00:00-07:00 UTC today 5 Oct.)
     @helenczerski

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 21:53:35 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Helen Czerski
     • Claire Barnes
     • Frank Sonntag

     @ClaireFromClare @FrankSonntag @helenczerski

     Aahh okay, I missed that part.

     If they were there 12 hours ago and disappeared today, then it definitely sounds like some kind of server problem rather than anything working normally.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:06:11 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Helen Czerski
     • Claire Barnes
     • Frank Sonntag

     @FrankSonntag @ClaireFromClare @helenczerski

     Thanks for the fast response and explanation 🙏

     Ahaa... Didn't realise the retention period covered posts as well, I thought it just stopped cacheing media. Interesting!

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     Frank Sonntag (franksonntag@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:06:13 JST Frank Sonntag

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     • Helen Czerski
     • Claire Barnes

     @ClaireFromClare @feditips @helenczerski

     This was most likely caused by fairly short remote content retention period.

     Since this is confusing and intransparent to our people I have now turned off cache cleanup for remote posts (but not for remote media) and we will deal with any disk-space issues if and when required.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:28:16 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Claire Barnes
     • Frank Sonntag

     @FrankSonntag @ClaireFromClare

     Yeah, that does sound like it ought to have a warning on the setting to make it clear 😬

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     Frank Sonntag (franksonntag@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 22:28:18 JST Frank Sonntag

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     • Claire Barnes

     @feditips @ClaireFromClare

     Those are two separate settings, one for posts, one for media - plus a third for user archives.

     The problem is that remote posts cannot be fetched and therefore are not cached again. Something that wasn't clear to me when I turned on the cleanup and making it a pretty dangerous setting.