RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117394751058470756
The two middlewares we removed had to do with two factor auth checks, and verified email checks.
We used to do that on every webUI request. Now we only do that during auth, like it should be.
At scale, this is noticeable, and a nice side effect is that our oauth flow now properly supports 2FA when authenticating with our app, like I did with Loops!
The performance improvements we've shipped in the past month are HUGE!
This means you can host more people with less resources, thanks to more db indexes, improved redis data structures, and the removal of two expensive middlewares!
Our new webUI will further reduce backend load, by intelligently caching data across pages.
