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Lemmy.World Announcements

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Status update July 4th

Just wanted to let you know where we are with Lemmy.world.

Issues

As you might have noticed, things still won't work as desired.. we see several issues:

Performance

  • Loading is mostly OK, but sometimes things take forever
  • We (and you) see many 502 errors, resulting in empty pages etc.
  • System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

Bugs

  • Replying to a DM doesn't seem to work. When hitting reply, you get a box with the original message which you can edit and save (which does nothing)
  • 2FA seems to be a problem for many people. It doesn't always work as expected.

Troubleshooting

We have many people helping us, with (site) moderation, sysadmin, troubleshooting, advise etc. There currently are 25 people in our Discord, including admins of other servers. In the Sysadmin channel we are with 8 people. We do troubleshooting sessions with these, and sometimes others. One of the Lemmy devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml is also helping with current issues.

So, all is not yet running smoothly as we hoped, but with all this help we'll surely get there! Also thank you all for the donations, this helps giving the possibility to use the hardware and tools needed to keep Lemmy.world running!

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[โ€“] Sentau@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

People of lemmy.world should encourage the new users joining up on lemmy.world to other create accounts on other instances instead

[โ€“] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

Shouldn't we be discussing closing registrations?

[โ€“] humanreader@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Federation-wise it would be better if new users spread out. Between clueless redditors and impossible ideal, I prefer if they at least made an account and check out what Lemmy has to offer. The curious ones will eventually settle down and even redistribute into smaller instances.

[โ€“] DudePluto@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The curious ones will eventually settle down and even redistribute into smaller instances

Absolutely. I migrated from lemmy.ml when that was having too many sign-ups, and I'm not opposed to migrating from lemmy.world to help with their load. I'm sure I'm one of many

[โ€“] Thief@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 years ago

We have loads of space at https://lemmy.myserv.one if people want to spread the load.

[โ€“] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It'd help a lot if we had a convenient way to export a user profile to a different instance. It doesn't even need to attribute posts/comments in any way. Just saving settings, subscriptions, and blocks would be plenty for most people.

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[โ€“] Sausage_Mahoney@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The work you're doing is greatly appreciated! It's like you invited half the internet into your house. I feel like I should've brought a cake or something

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[โ€“] SeaMauFive@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Huge respect for what you've built here, but it might be worth reaching out to the lemm.ee admin. I only know enough DevOps and cloud hosting to be dangerous, not helpful. But his instance seems stable and scalable. He might be able to offer some insight into the issues here

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[โ€“] bledley@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for your hard work. Noticing janky bits getting ironed out everyday. Has anyone had any luck making Lemmy.world work in Qutebrowser? It just hangs on loading comments/posts..Any work arounds? I'd love that..working quite well in Firefox and mobile though.

[โ€“] Prasaedonium@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Appreciate the clarity and hope things keep moving in the right direction

[โ€“] shashi154263@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's not perfect but becoming better everyday.

[โ€“] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all of your effort on this. Adjusting to rapid growth is a huge challenge, and we all appreciate the effort you and everyone else is putting in to trying to make this instance run smoothly.

[โ€“] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks team, love your work! Appreciate the updates and improvements but happy to have this place despite the bugs and quirks :)

[โ€“] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It has become way smoother the last few hours. The work you guys from .world and Lemmy's devs have been doing is amazing!

[โ€“] Stuka@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The biggest frustration is 502 errors on submit. Sometimes th8ngs go through, sometimes not

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[โ€“] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That DM sending bug was already fixed in a later rc version. Although in rc.9 (and possibly rc.10) there is a weird bug where you can't sign out. Fun stuff.

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[โ€“] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup, I'm having the 2FA problem. I can't log into mobile, because no code gets generated. Luckily I'll just stay logged into a browser for now.

But thanks for all the hard work! :) You're probably getting a flux of Reddit migrants, such as myself now

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[โ€“] PieMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks y'all.

[โ€“] mordred@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks a LOT for your work. It's amazing seeing what people can do when they work together for a good cause.

[โ€“] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Thanks u/ruud!

How are you managing all of this in addition to having a life outside of Lemmy? This kind of went from 0-60 in a blink.

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[โ€“] Candelestine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)

What was that? We're going to need more and better hardware soon, and you have a Patreon and a paypal on the sidebar?

Yeah, that sounds pretty reasonable, we can work with that.

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[โ€“] Cshock159@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Could I get a discord invite? Iโ€™m an ex sysadmin with a. Lot of free time

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