RFC: Changing Frontpage's lexicon NSID

[tom-sherman]

Status of this RFC: proposed

Overview

We intend to change the Frontpage lexicon NSID prefix from fyi.unravel.frontpage to fyi.frontpage.

After a period of deprecation, new posts/comments/votes on the old NSID won't be consumed within the AppView.

Why?

The unravel.fyi was used while we were testing and never updated it

How?

• Enter a communication phase where we advertise change to folks that may be using the lexicon. During this period nothing will change but the rest of the timeline will be firmed up (with actual dates). Timeline: 4 weeks after this RFC is accepted
• Enter a deprecation period where we will create records using the new NSID, but the AppView will accept records from both old and new. Timeline: 2 weeks
• Decommission the old lexicon. The AppView will stop accepting new records with the old NSID.
• We'll run a record migration process at this stage to move user's records (of the users we have active sessions for) to the new NSID. New records will maintain the existing rkey