This morning I finally got around to fixing an issue that mysteriously came up during the migration to the new #k3s cluster where the pod is now hosted. For some reason the pod wasn’t serving static assets correctly, and as a workaround I was sending them instead to the Diaspora Ruby code rather than the lightttpd server that’s both faster and non-blocking.

In any case, a bit of experimenting fixed the issue and it’s all better now; there should be fewer pauses in loading pages as a result.