Alright, real talk for a moment. I think it's time to... talk about money. Yeah, I know. Honestly, I'm not in there for the money. Like, at all. I'm having fun, that's the point. However, running an infrastructure costs money. NOW, let's be real. Not THAT much money. Thread:

Finally found the rootcause for the site being super slow, and of course it's a very stupid bug. Pushing a hotfix as fast as I can...

Alright. Time for a little 4am thread. As I wrote in the about page, I started Voresky as a joke. "Hey guys, it'd be fun if we could do this, right?" And then, as I kept spooling it up, playing with a few friends on it, I started to realize that "Hey it's... actually viable...? Cool!"

WELL I HOPE THIS WILL BE ENOUGH FOR NOW BECAUSE I COULD ONLY GET 6 AND WHEN I TRIED TO INCREASE THE QUOTA- Yes, I'm a new project! No, I don't have billing history! I still have $290 in free trial credits, and it's going to last for a while still. YES I KNOW HOW TO BUILD AN APP FOR PEANUTS SO WHAT

OKAY, YOU ANIMALS, YOU WIN I've bumped the number of replicas from 2 to 8. Enjoy.

My DMs right now: "HEY VORESKY IS BEING SLOW TO LOA-" Yep, I know. Rootcause is, I built it a little bit too fast, and didn't try caching anything yet. Any profile enrichment is hitting the database directly at the moment. AND I WASN'T EXPECTING SO MANY OF YOU TO USE IT TO BROWSE BLUESKY omg.

If anyone is mostly prey on Voresky like me you can be in multiple bellies at once by enabling them to use universes. Its off by default but if you go into your character settings you can turn it on and even restrict specific universes so that you cant be grabbed in those.

Glad someone caught up on that~

Okay! Megathread for all the info anyone could want about voresky! Because it's a cool site but I feel like a lot of things are not immediately obvious. Each reply to this is gonna be a short thread on something basic about the site, with alt text in most of the images including extra explanations.

Alright, it is time to push this new auth flow. The userbase is now at 500+ and growing, and the Bluesky API rate limit is extremely close to display errors on people's feed. This unfortunately means people will be kicked out, and will need to re-authenticate, since the auth backend changed.

#voresky #technology #security #bluesky #rant Voresky has grown to 200+ users in just one week, entirely through word of mouth. That's incredible! But it means I need to make some changes to how the app connects to Bluesky. Here's what's happening and why. A thread:

On voresky, who wanna get munched? :3