Announcement: Update to Database

[wphampton (Wes Hampton)]

I think @btk nailed it here – possibly not a technical limitation but a decision regarding allocation of their engineers time and energy.

@btk

If I had to guess what went down in the ST war room, it’d be that they determined moving to new database clusters was a solution to one or more of the current issues. Then they discussed how long it would take to properly migrate everyone’s event histories. Seconds after that they decided that whatever that amount of time was, it wasn’t worth keeping the platform in its current state and they should just do a clean cut-over.