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, @[email protected] 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!
This has been such a refreshing change from reddit! I’m willing to deal with occasional hiccups, and I know it will only get better with time. Keep it up!
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Respect to all lemmy.world admins!
Thanks for all the work you, and all the others do to welcome so many new users, and thank you for keeping us posted on your efforts to smooth things over.
From what I see the general sentiment is very positive and understanding, and it feels special to be part of a community that’s more upbeat than what you see in most online places.
Keep up the good work! Things have been really snappy the past few hours 😎
Please keep working on it, thank you for your effort.
Are there any plans to make user up and down votes not viewable publicly? I know for a lot of new adopters this can be a deal breaker.
If someone cares about their privacy that badly why vote at all? I’m sure votes are tracked by the sites on other websites?
On reddit only reddit knows your up and down votes which are never made public unless you check an option in settings. The fediverse is already a target for brigading due to the decentralized nature, allowing bad actors to figure out who to target seems like a terrible idea. Imagine what people like /r/againsthatesubreddits would do with that info.
On the flip side, it also makes brigading easier to detect, so instances can defederate communities that routinely vote in bad faith.
So only group think supported brigading is allowed, even better.
Instances cannot defederate individual communities.
It also doesn’t really stop people making an alt and continuing to muck about either.
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Keep up the great work! We believe in you! Just a reminder to everyone to help sustain lemmy.world by donating in the sidebar! If 1000 people all donated $2/month then that’s 24K a year to keep the hardware running! Reddit is what happens when you rely on Corporate Overlords to provide the services you love.
Keep up the good work!
I created an account in lemm.ee until the issues are fixed. Then I will happily go back to my lemmy.world account.
If I have an account at lemmy.world, but have another instance selected, does that take some of the burden off the admins or do I need to do something more?
Thank you. Y’all are doing great.
I’m sure it’s stressful but I know I’m here to stay. It’s been a blast so far
Really appreciate all the time and effort you all put in especially while Lemmy is growing so fast. Couldn’t happen without you!
People of lemmy.world should encourage the new users joining up on lemmy.world to other create accounts on other instances instead
Thanks y’all.
Thank you for everything you do. With any luck, you’ll get all the support you need, and have it running smooth as silk.
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
You should consider setting up a small donation to the site, if you can afford it. If you throw $5 a month at them, you’re not only covering your own hosting fees, but covering for some of the folks who can’t afford to as well. And maybe Ruud gets to buy some beans.
It appears I have no idea how to imbed an image, but good call. Subscribed.
