Had an exciting day today.
(TL;DR: I accidentally created a Cloudflare Tunnel fight club.)

So I moved my #GoToSocial instance to a new server today. The move went really smoothly and the instance was back up in less than 30 min.

Then weird shit started happening: sometimes my new posts/replies disappeared and reappeared, images were not always loading, notifications acted up.
This confused the fuck out of me.

Restarting the server didn't help. I even reinstalled the #Pachli app but it only got weirder: I started seeing "invalid token" errors after logging in, but only 50% of the time and the other 50% it worked perfectly fine.

Then came the realization! The old server was still running alongside the new one. Shouldn't really be a problem because the domain is pointing to the new one, right?

The thing is though, my instance is running behind a #Cloudflare tunnel so now the same tunnel was running on both servers, fighting each other for control. After shutting down the old server, everything started working fine again.

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