Sorry for the announced reboots.

We're still working through some things trying to get everything tuned correctly. If things go dark just retry in a minute or two and we should be back.

I'd also be interested in hearing if anyone is experiencing errors or delays when browsing or posting that seem out of line with the rest of Lemmy. Sorry it's such a pain!

Please don't let this discourage you from participating in the communities. If anything now is the best time to tax the server. Thanks for all your patience.

Update on instance performance upgrades

The server is running on double the RAM it was previously which should help with the slowdowns. !gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz in particular is really putting the hardware to work from all the growth which is great to see!

Federation Desynchronization

A few instances have fallen out of sync with walledgarden.xyz so some posts, votes, replies, etc may be lagging behind. This should sort itself out as federation syncs back up assuming we aren't rate limited somewhere.

If you notice anything unusual please don't hesitate to post about it here or DM me.

Thanks for hanging out with us!

Greetings all.

The last few weeks have seen a lot of new things for our community, and with it have come some hiccups and growing pains. While I think most of the major issues are behind us we seem to hit snags here and there that I could use the fediverse's help to get ironed out.

If you happen to notice slow downs, timeouts, errors, or other anomalous behavior related to walledgarden.xyz please report it here or to me via DM.

I've been working with our host to ensure the smoothest experience possible but as we continue to grow and try new things we've run into some issues and sorting them out isn't always immediate. Things like losing federation sync to random instances are hard to keep track of without help from people using our communities reporting it. If you are a regular user of !weedtime@walledgarden.xyz, !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz, !gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz, etc please speak up when you run into problems so we can get them sorted.

THANK YOU ALL for your contributions and support in our communities, we'll see you around the fediverse!

We will be waiting approximately 2 weeks (probably slightly less) before updating to the latest Lemmy version. I'll try to post a warning before things go down but it isn't expected to take long.

Apologies for the recent downtime, our instance was being migrated to upgraded storage. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

Since this instance is very new there isn't a lot of data cached on our server. As more of you join and add your own subscriptions to the community, we are being rate limited by other instances. This is a natural part of how federating works currently and it will sort itself out. Growing pains.

Depending on the communities being joined it can take anywhere from a few minutes to hours or even a day or so to smooth back out. It isn't anything to worry about, join whatever you feel like and the servers can sort it out. There isn't anything we can do about it.