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What's happening: official notices and reliable storage

UK What's happening now shows National Rail official notices with an Official tag and stores passenger posts in Neon Postgres, applied automatically on deploy.

What changed

The What's happening strip on UK station boards now includes National Rail official notices tagged Official, alongside passenger tips. Official messages no longer appear in a separate notices strip when What's happening is enabled. Passenger posts are stored in a dedicated Neon Postgres database instead of shared key-value cache, so the feed stays available at busy stations.

Why it matters

You see verified network disruption text in the same chronological feed as crowd-sourced tips, clearly labelled. Moving passenger posts to Postgres stops them competing with departure board caches for storage space.

Who benefits

UK passengers reading or posting What's happening updates at a station.

Affected regions & features

uk