Theo Brandt
@theob
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Self-hoster since 2.x. Docker, ARM, and strong opinions about backups.
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- Automatic daily backups to S3-compatible storage
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- Running two Threadwell sites on one server
Yes — use multisite. One container, two databases, routed by hostname. In your container definition: hooks: after_postgres: - exec: sudo -u postgres creat
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- Threadwell 4.2 is out: sidebar sections, faster search and a new composer
Rebuild went through cleanly on a 2 GB droplet. Took about 11 minutes, which is a bit longer than 4.1.
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- Automatic daily backups to S3-compatible storage
What's the recommended way to get daily off-site backups on a self-hosted install? We use an S3-compatible provider (not AWS).
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- Automatic daily backups to S3-compatible storage
Worked with path style on. Restored one onto a test box to be sure — all good.
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- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
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- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Usually it's the image optimisation jobs after a big upload. Raise the worker count: env: THREADWELL_WORKERS: 4 And rebuild. Mail goes in its own queue, but i
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Liked by Dmitri Volkov
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Liked by Kwame Mensah
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Liked by Aiko Sato
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Email notifications arrive 20 minutes late
Liked by Hal Whitcombe
Check the job queue in Admin › Jobs. If the default queue has a backlog, something is hogging the workers.
Likes received · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
There's a "compact list" setting in the theme options for exactly that.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
Paperback is a calm theme for reading-heavy communities: serif body text, generous line height, muted colours and a narrow topic column. It supports light and d
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Theme: "Paperback" — a calm, bookish theme
Paperback is a calm theme for reading-heavy communities: serif body text, generous line height, muted colours and a narrow topic column. It supports light and d
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
That's the point! Glad it helps.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
Installed it on our test site — the first email was humbling. 19 unanswered questions we'd missed.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
A small plugin that emails moderators a weekly list of questions in Support with no replies after 72 hours, oldest first. every :monday, at: "08:00" do stale
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Plugin: weekly digest of unanswered questions for moderators
A small plugin that emails moderators a weekly list of questions in Support with no replies after 72 hours, oldest first. every :monday, at: "08:00" do stale
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- What’s the best way to run a weekly AMA?
One per week. Titles like "AMA: Queen rearing with ..." are searchable later, and each one gets its own moment at the top of Latest.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Reaction counts look wrong after merging two topics
Reproduced. The merge moves the posts but doesn't recount the destination. Fix is in review.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Reaction counts look wrong after merging two topics
After merging two topics, the merged posts kept their likes but the topic's total in the list is the old topic's count only. Rebuilding stats fixes it, so it's
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Translations: help finish Portuguese (Brazil) before 4.3
Took 120 of them this weekend. The admin strings are a bit dry but fine.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Translations: help finish Portuguese (Brazil) before 4.3
Portuguese (Brazil) is at 91% — the last strings are mostly in the admin panel. If you speak it, the translation platform link is in the docs. Every string help
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Translations: help finish Portuguese (Brazil) before 4.3
Portuguese (Brazil) is at 91% — the last strings are mostly in the admin panel. If you speak it, the translation platform link is in the docs. Every string help
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Running two Threadwell sites on one server
Exactly what I needed. Thanks Theo.
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Running two Threadwell sites on one server
Liked by Kwame Mensah
Yes — use multisite. One container, two databases, routed by hostname. In your container definition: hooks: after_postgres: - exec: sudo -u postgres creat
Likes received · 10/12/2026