Helen Czerski
I was not expecting Sellotape to make me ponder the definition of “plastic” today. But my departmental stationary cupboard has “zero plastic sellotape” (similar to Scotch tape, if you’re from the USA).
Plant-based things can be made non-biodegradable, bamboo fabric being the obvious eg - it’s rayon, which contribute to plastic marine waste & doesn’t decompose. And this “zero-plastic” tape will only compost in an industrial composter.
If it looks like plastic and quacks like plastic…
#plastic
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@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.
Claire Barnes
@feditips Wanting others to see the conversation to which I'm replying here, discovered an issue I've not experienced before, & hope for your advice please? I used "open original page" earlier to see all replies & there was a vibrant conversation (my instance now shows 21 posts from 14 participants). Now if I #OpenOriginalPage for the initial post https://fediscience.org/@helenczerski/110894945034117659 I see only the first & last posts... a fraction of the riches contributed. What's happening here?
#MastoHelp
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@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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@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.
Claire Barnes
@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.)
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@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!
Frank Sonntag
@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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@FrankSonntag @ClaireFromClare
Yeah, that does sound like it ought to have a warning on the setting to make it clear 😬
Frank Sonntag
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.
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