Hi all,

Two weeks since my last post about working on Rose's performance. Uneventful for Rose, but very eventful for me, as I've been hard at work adding new optimisations in the background to fix any bottlenecks that had creeped in! We now have:
- a faster blocklist matcher
- improved caching logic
- tuned database/cache connections
- and more to come; still have some things I'd like to mark as done!
And all the changes have given me the opportunity to add some more performance metrics, so it'll be easier for me to spot where issues come from in the future. Really happy with the progress so far 🎉

As part of these changes, I released a small update to Rose earlier today, which now has Rose asking users to do a one-time verification of new groups via a webapp before Rose starts working. I understand this has caused some confusion - don't worry! All normal, I'm just trying out something new to help fight spam groups who add Rose but then don't use her. I've just updated the message to try and make that clearer.

Thank you, and enjoy :)