
Hmm, yeah, the post I linked above is still missing some 50 comments, and most of the post and comment upvotes. Kind of interesting though that it acquired 92/148 comments (at time of writing), before you pushed the fix yesterday it had 2 upvotes and 0 comments. Guess the upvotes are just what has been added since then.
Would be nice if there was a contingency option for server admins for situations like this, no? Something like “Resynch federation events from <timestamp> to <timestamp>”, maybe limitable to certain instances/communities/posts. Not sure if that’s possible with how the federation works currently, but if it is it would be a good feature I guess.








Yeah I got that. But couldn’t you (theoretically) add a “resend activities from <timeframe>” option to the API? So you can ask other servers for things you missed. I mean what happened here is one problem where that may be useful, but another would be something like having to restore from day old backups, being a new instance with no history, a network outage, or missing things for whatever other reason.
Like I said I don’t know the data structures involved, but in my layperson head it sounds possible, although you may have to throttle it to prevent abuse I guess.