From c55783a0c941367ca7674e7020eb44f804fb8cbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kronovet <kronovet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:03:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Increase cache TTLs for entries and Discord profiles.

Jam slugs and Discord profiles now cache for 24 hours (rarely change between deploys). Active jam entries cache for 1 hour to pick up new submissions during jam periods. Archived entries remain at 7 days.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/src/services/discord.ts | 2 +-
 backend/src/services/entries.ts | 4 ++--
 spec/JUDGING.md                 | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/services/discord.ts b/backend/src/services/discord.ts
index a2107fc..bf581fb 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/discord.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/discord.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ interface CacheEntry {
   expiresAt: number;
 }
 
-const CACHE_TTL_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes
+const CACHE_TTL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 24 hours
 const cache = new Map<string, CacheEntry>();
 
 function getBotToken(): string | undefined {
diff --git a/backend/src/services/entries.ts b/backend/src/services/entries.ts
index 25297f8..6118bc8 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/entries.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/entries.ts
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ async function fetchEntriesFromGitHub(jamSlug: string): Promise<Entry[]> {
 
 // In-memory cache for GitHub-fetched entries
 const entriesCache: Map<string, { entries: Entry[]; fetchedAt: number }> = new Map();
-const CACHE_TTL = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes (slugs, frontmatter)
-const CACHE_TTL_ACTIVE = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 minutes for latest jam entries
+const CACHE_TTL = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 24 hours (slugs, frontmatter)
+const CACHE_TTL_ACTIVE = 60 * 60 * 1000; // 1 hour for latest jam entries
 const CACHE_TTL_ARCHIVE = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 7 days for older jam entries
 
 /** Latest jam slug, updated by getJamSlugs(). */
diff --git a/spec/JUDGING.md b/spec/JUDGING.md
index 8a61999..cccd529 100644
--- a/spec/JUDGING.md
+++ b/spec/JUDGING.md
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Backend fetches entries from GitHub:
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dojoengine/game-jams/main/{slug}/entries.yaml
 ```
 
-Caching: 5-minute TTL in memory. This balances freshness with minimal GitHub API calls.
+Caching: 1-hour TTL in memory. This balances freshness with minimal GitHub API calls.
 
 ## Pairwise Judging