"After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database that’s preventing new articles from being saved."
It gets better:
"We’re aiming to get the full archives available by next Friday, February 17 at the latest. We appreciate your patience and understanding in the interim."
-- http://blog.instapaper.com/post/157045376396
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"After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database that’s preventing new articles from being saved."
ouch.
It gets better: "We’re aiming to get the full archives available by next Friday, February 17 at the latest. We appreciate your patience and understanding in the interim." -- http://blog.instapaper.com/post/157045376396
Gotta love the cloud. Sounds likely to be Heroku for the db if I had to guess.
did somebody make the id column an int rather than a bigint? good luck running that alter table query on 2 billion rows.