update: Editing posts is now resolved as well!

Hey everyone -- thanks for your patience over the last few days around forum issues.

TLDR: The caching issue that was causing new posts to not appear should be resolved.

Technical Explanation A few months ago we updated our version of laravel which is the backend for our API and features like the wardrobe and forums (and in the future the whole site). I missed a configuration update that made the default caching interface the file system which was causing a lot of issues around the site. You might have noticed forum posts not loading, or the wardrobe not loading, and that was because the cache was filling up the disk drives of those servers are causing them to become zombies ?‍♂️ essentially. They weren't sending out that they were broken or down, but couldn't really do anything because everything requires putting something on the disk.

So -- we resolved that and made changes required to move the cache back to our memcached instance. Unfortunately that changed the expected behavior of caching on things like the forums / elsewhere (which... may have not been working at all for months??) and I've spent the last few days tracking that down and fixing it.

So:

1. We're correctly caching forum posts, and able to cache them for much longer. This means significantly less pulls for information when you load the forums and should make the forums (and the site) a much smoother and faster experience.
2. Forum edits are WORKING ?

Editing posts now works as well ?

Please see today's site update post for some info on the character limit problem! (Good news - we DO have backups so there is a good chance we can help with anything you are missing.)

General Updates: February 2