Is there something special about the 28th day of the month and precisely 90 days?

A very obvious server-crashing / denial of service problem was called-out in Lemmy code two days before the Reddit deadline. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3394

Observations:

1. Why would anyone think 5 is a good design for production in the first place. It puts into question the developers for over 4 years of experience - they clearly understand the technical issue - it is the same coding / parameter issue for any programming language. What is the motivation / priority here?

2. lemmy.ml developer-run server (then the Lemmy server with the most data) was crashing from PostgreSQL overloads May and June 2023 every day…

3. there were active countdowns to the July 1 Reddit API change, This was June 28.

4. The change takes about 30 seconds to code, by no means is it difficult to understand. But it must be approved by the core developers of over 4 years on the project… and even notify live sites to urgently edit the Rust source code and re-compile. (And why not move this value to an environment variable that can be set without recompiling Rust code?)

June 28 issue opened / code created
July 1 Reddit API deadline
September 28 code published

90 days to change what has contributed to lemmy.ml, beehaw, lemmy.world - and the entire network of Lemmy servers crashing constantly from Lemmy overload. Almost as bad as GitHub Issue 2910 being ignored all month of June 2023!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3394