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2025-03-24infra

Data freeze and wind-down

  • Change: Every main page switched from live upstream calls to static JSON under public/data/ in a single day: global data (0b94f10b), world feed (f68921f6), /users (5967959a), /scenes (cea52f5c), /parcel (1aa49fc6), /maps (7bc89f73), /worlds (9bccb79f), /status (15a687db). Front-page world data frozen (dcc23bd8). Search buttons removed (4bcb41bc). /users/:id and /scenes/:id rerouted to their parent list pages (f3c27d09). GitHub Actions workflows disabled (769e7310). Note: GA scripts were already off since 2024-11-01 (3fc4a429).
  • Why: The upstream DCL API stopped refreshing reliably. Keeping live-fetch paths meant showing stale-and-erroring data to every visitor. A frozen snapshot of the last good cache was a better user experience than broken charts.
  • Affected Modules: All page getStaticProps handlers, src/lib/data/fetch.ts, public/data/, .github/workflows/, sidebar search
  • Trade-offs:
    • Pro: The site loads fast and never shows errors; the data is consistent and predictable.
    • Con: Data frozen at the last cache date (2025-03-24); the project is now a read-only artifact rather than a live dashboard. Any future reactivation would require re-plumbing every page's data source.