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There's a setting called "content cache retention period" that you should leave blank. If you put any numbers in there, it can start permanently breaking threads on your server.

This feature is NOT intended for general use on normal servers.

Thread all about it here:

➡️ social.growyourown.services/@h

There's a pull request on Github for moving this to a "danger zone":

➡️ github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Added a page to fedi.tips:

➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-admins-leav

Can you build mastodon disabling this option all together, or till upstream changes it?

@FediTips

@yianiris

If you leave it blank it will disable the option.

@FediTips @yianiris I think they meant one meta level up, i.e. disable the existence of this input box which are not meant for general servers

@analogist @yianiris

I guess you could remove it if you have the coding knowledge?

I'm not sure why it is there at all to be honest, as it's dangerous and 99.99% of servers will never need it.

I took a look at a tarball and the git (near 1GB), I didn't readily see traditional configuration options, but I am not very familiar with rubi and rust.

@FediTips @analogist

@FediTips Thanks - seems I have had that set to 7 days for some reason. Blanked it out now.

@rolle @troed

Mastodon's devs really should have hidden this option. It just causes damage in almost all cases.

@FediTips @rolle @troed calling it a Cache is also straight up wrong - a cache can always be rebuilt - it’s just there to make things faster. That’s definitely what is going on here though

@jippi @FediTips @rolle @troed 🤞 the PR to help explain it better can get merged soon.

@FediTips thanks for highlighting this (and the PR)

@FediTips Can confirm. I screwed up and broke loads of threads on this server for a month before I reverted to fix it.

@pre

Sorry to hear 😞

Hopefully this option gets a bit more hidden in future, or at least gets a better warning message.