We will be doing maintenance on the database tonight beginning at 11pm Pacific time to improve performance. During that time you'll see a message regarding the downtime and we'll promise any backlog into very early Sunday morning. Thank you for the support and for being here!
Last night's maintenance went very well, thank you for your patience. The main issue is indeed a surge of traffic across the fediverse with other instances, not just ours, experiencing a backlog which has caused slowness and timeouts. We had spare equipment on hand to spin up and it seems we're doing better now but we will continue to monitor the queues and support this positive growth of the fediverse.
@SDF thank you for the updates and of course, continuing to serve us. I noticed that the support link in the announcement today is truncated. Shouldn't it link to: https://sdf.org/support/ ?