Base: "Switching to an incorrectly configured backup sorter" caused a 33-minute interruption in block production yesterday

On Tuesday, Ethereum's Layer 2 blockchain, Base, experienced an outage, halting block production for 33 minutes due to a switch to an incorrectly configured backup sorter. The incident occurred at 2:07 PM Beijing time on August 6th. The active sorter was lagging behind in block production. Conductor, the system that manages sorter reliability, switched to a different sorter, but selected a "mainnet sorter" that was still under configuration and "not yet ready," resulting in a block outage. The Base Build account, account X, subsequently published a post explaining the cause of the outage.