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@@ -31,3 +31,18 @@ Posts's `AsObject` APIs are called every time a Post is added/updated/deleted.
 It builds on `PlumeRocket` as main `Context`, and so we'd have to touch every API if we split either `DbConn` or `Searcher` out of `PlumeRocket`
 
 ## Solution Attempts and their Problems
+
+in the past couple of weeks, we've made the following attepts to at least partially dissolve `PlumeRocket`
+
+- [plume-model: refactor Searcher to have its own DbPool](https://git.joinplu.me/Plume/Plume/pulls/809)
+- [WIP: Experiment: extract Searcher into an Actor](https://git.joinplu.me/Plume/Plume/pulls/807)
+- [extract DbConn from PlumeRocket](https://git.joinplu.me/Plume/Plume/pulls/805)
+
+As soon as we attempted to delete out one of the members from `PlumeRocket`, compiles would fail all over the place, meaning we'd have to touch almost every single function's *signature* that uses `PlumeRocket`.
+This then means we'd have to touch every single function that in turn use those functions!
+That is a lot of broken code, before we've even started refactoring.
+
+## Strategy
+
+Despite ambitions to use an [Actor System (Riker)](https://riker.rs/), it is not magnitude of the ambitions, but the size of the steps we've taken.
+So, given past failures we devise a strategy: