Pocket Queries go from 500 to 1000

[nccachegeek]

PQ1K

Our fearless leader made a promise some weeks ago, and by extension issued a challenge to the web team: Make PQ generation stable enough to increase the per-PQ cache limit. The challenge was accepted with not a little apprehension at first -- after all, the PQ generator had already been under an extremely heavy load, and "now you want us to deliver more!?" -- but in the end it came together and PQ generation time was cut in half. With the PQ generator now stable, we can comfortably increase the per-PQ cache limit to 1000.

Some specifics:

* If you change nothing about the way you use PQs you will not be affected by this change
* PQs requesting between 501-1000 caches will be available as a file download only, although we will still notify you by email when it is ready
* PQs with less than 501 caches will be emailed as attachments and available as a file download
* PQs will remain available for download a maximum of 7 days from the date it was generated
* My Finds PQs are no longer sent as email attachments, but will be available as a file download

[tomanoble]

That sounds great! So how will the file download thing work? Will there be some type of announcement on where to find the file after it is generated?

[ladybugkids]

You will receive an e-mail that your PQ is ready to download.

The Pocket Query page in your profile has a new tab to click for the downloadable files.

[tzipora]

Thanks for the info about the new PQs! After reading it, I was only confused for a little while - just the amount of time it took me to realise that the 500s work differently than the 1000s.

[ladybugkids]

I'm planning for a family trip to the East Coast at the end of the month. Here's what a pending PQ queue looks like on the new system.