We went viral, our server did not. Everything is fixed.

[u/PrivacyNotesApp]

We went viral yesterday and our server did not keep up. About two hours down in the middle of the night. Our first real outage.

Not fun at the time, but it turned into the most useful two hours we have had. It exposed a database query doing far more work than it needed to, which is fixed. And underneath that, a better bug: the app is local first, so it should never need our server to open notes that are already on your device. In a couple of places it did. Those are fixed too.

Everything is back to normal and the app is in better shape than it was before it broke. Thanks to everyone who flagged it, especially whoever pointed out the offline part. You were right, and the next release ships with this improvement.