The timer was load-bearing while the mint list was a build-time snapshot: a
rebuild was the only way a new mint, a new review count or a changed status ever
reached /mints. The list hydrates now, so all three arrive within a second of
load, in every language, and rebuilding 2,000 pages at 03:30 to refresh numbers
that refresh themselves is twenty minutes of CPU for nothing.
cashumints-web.service stays exactly as it is — it is the deploy-time publish
step, and now the only thing that starts it is a deploy. A build still produces
what only a build can: the prerendered HTML a crawler reads, a social card per
mint, the sitemap and hreflang set, and a /mint/{host} page for every mint known
at build time.
The one thing that gets staler is that last item. A mint indexed since the last
deploy has no prerendered page: /mint/newhost is a 404, whose resolver looks the
address up against the live API and renders it — readable, reviewable, noindex
until a deploy gives it a real page. That was already true between nightly
builds; this only lengthens the window.
README documents the one-time host commands to remove the installed timer, and
gains a "Live lists" section describing what replaced it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
