Dashboard backgrounds are back!
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Tonight's user-facing change update is primarily UI polish - we've got the first instance of Zurg/Riven stats being reported on your dashboard, and the random background wallpapers are back! (We assumed these to be lost in the #fluxpocalypse, but it turns out unsplash just turned off their HTTP-based endpoint we were using to download them!)
Upon tonight's update, you'll end up with 2 random backgrounds on your apps dashboard, which may / may not look good. Think of these as placeholders - you can replace them with anything you like, provided you save your replacements into config/homer/backgrounds, and then restart homer with elfbot restart homer 
Behind-the-scenes
Behind the scenes, tonight's update also combines Gatus (health checks) with Homer (dashboard), with Homer joining Gatus on the gnome (observability) nodes, rather than the power-house, contended, jack-of-all-trades elf nodes.
The motivation here is to provide core services (health, dashboard, etc) on nodes isolated from contended load (Plex, Flaresolverr, etc), so that even if the elf nodes are workin' hard, your dashboard and management tooling will be available and responsive.
Dedicated nodes are dedicated
Hobbit and Ranger users get their heavy hitters running on dedicated nodes anyway!
Today's scoreboard
| Metric | Numberz | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| đ§ Total subscribers | 341 | -23 |
| đž Zurg mounts: | 153 | -13 |
| â° Riven pods: | 49 | +3 |
| đŦ Tenant pods | 2718 | -469 1 |
| đ§đģâđž Hobbits | 23 | +8 |
| đ¤ Rangers | 19 | +4 |
| đĻ¸ Elf-vengers | 8 | - |
| đ§âđ Trainees | 24 | +1 |
| đ Bugz squished | 1 | - |
| đšī¸ New toyz | 1 | - |
Summary
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This is expected - with the decommissioning of the 10 x HDD nodes, and the consolidation of some of the "minor" pods to reduce control-plane overhead, we can expect to see pod count dropping for a while. This is a good thing :) ↩