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EventStreams frequently replaying edits from beginning of queue
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:
Eventually, the recentchanges feed starts replaying events from 1 week ago, and will continue doing so at a faster rate until it catches up with the current time.

What should have happened instead?:
Unless the client requests otherwise, EventStreams should not send events from the past.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

This has been going on occasionally for a long time, but in the last week or so has started happening quite frequently. Restarting the EventStreams client sometimes helps and sometimes just starts over at the beginning again.

Event Timeline

stjn subscribed.

Also got reported a lot on DiscordWikiBot’s side. I’ve done changes to not post anything stale, but if I had a nickel for how often this happened with EventStreams infrastructure not just in this past week, I’d probably have at least a dozen by now.