Wasn't there a post on here recently about OSM going to vector-based tiles? I did a quick search and it seems like this is already a widely-offered option. Can anyone jog our memory on what the change is?
Most vector tile sets today generated from OSM are hours behind the current state of the map data in the best case, much more commonly they are months behind.
You are probably talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339182