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For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I've been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.

The site isn't listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won't load.

It's often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don't because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working..

What's going on? Is there a status page for these places?

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[-] antik@lemmy.world 230 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a status page up on https://status.lemmy.world

We have been dealing with some DDOS attacks and are still taking extra measures to get everything more stable but we are working with people in different timezones so it's not always as easy to react.

So yes, we are working on improving things.

[-] techguy86@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Growing pains! I’m much happier here then elsewhere.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

See, and that makes us happy

[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Perfect thank you!

Do you guys need help dealing with the security side? I can help depending on the need.

[-] Oneobi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

How good is your karate? I think they could use another security guard.

[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I can break boards with my face if I'm drunk enough. That counts right?

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[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Hacker attacks, a tankie power mod, incel, /poltics being toxic. I think this site has really made it.

[-] veroxii@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It feels good to be home

[-] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You guys have been doing an awesome job maintaining the site, keep it up 👍

[-] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your efforts!

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[-] BadRS@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

There's been a DOS attack against the site and its database. The admins said they were going to move over to CloudFlare for DDoS protection and yeah, I just checked, they're getting served by CloudFlare now. Instability issues should go away.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

I bailed on them for now and made an account on a much smaller instance so everything loads again. Thankfully with federation you can still see all the same content, you just need to set up subscriptions again on the new account if you choose to go that route.

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I suggested joining a new instance in another support thread.

For some reason, even though it's the whole philosophy behind federated networking, people didn't like the idea.

Is the mentality here degrading to levels of Reddit fanboy-ism? If so, I'm DEFINITELY gonna migrate

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was really surprised by this too but yeah, people want to be on the same largest instance. I guess it's a community feeling by doing that. Or at least a feeling of safety, since it's unlikely the instance shuts down.

[-] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

In addition to a large instance being less likely to shut down and (presumably) having more resources, there's an additional advantage to being on a larger instance: you have a more comprehensive "All" feed. Since federation with a remote feed isn't established until (IIRC) someone subscribes to it, an instance with a larger user base should contain more subscriptions to a wider variety of content. Of course, not everyone will like that and you lose out on Beehaw content if you're on the two largest Lemmy instances, but I think it applies in general.

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

At this point, I don't believe lemmy.world will shut down. But the constant outages are going to push people away regardless. Luckily people have nearly limitless options of instances to join.

Though, the average schmo just recently coming from Reddit won't understand "Instances" or "federation", and just give up on Lemmy as a platform overall once they see how unstable it is. lemmy.world is currently the front-door to the fediverse for a lot of people here.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.

I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.

Once you have two or more accounts, it's just a click in the mobile client (Jerboa, Liftoff etc) to switch profiles. Takes a second.

You will have to set up your subscriptions to communities again though on a new account. That can be annoying but kind of worth it.

[-] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

My list of blocked porn communities is more than double my list of subscribed communities; reblocking would be the biggest pill.

[-] OldFartPhil@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I've used Lemmy Account Settings Instance Migrator, which migrates your blocked communities and settings as well as your subscriptions. It worked for me, but YMMV as the developer says it's alpha software.

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[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Use a different instance. That one is overloaded. Honestly I think they should close sign ups for a while.

[-] resol@mastodon.social 8 points 1 year ago

@PutangInaMo The instance is likely down. Luckily you can set up an alternate account on an alternate fediverse platform and browse your communities like nothing happened. That's what I did.

The fediverse is so awesome.

[-] GameWarrior@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

I have also been having issues with lemmy.world on Memmy

[-] antik@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Memmy could have an issue with the push notifications. I contacted the devs about this earlier today. Other than that, if the site is down you will have problems no matter which app you're using.

[-] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No clue. But, thank you for unlocking a decade old memory of a Tagalog phrase I didn’t know I still knew.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] Ph0mX@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Was down this morning for me

[-] adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml is also experiencing issues. both sites seems to have login disabled for almost 24 hours now. if they’re experiencing a DDoS attack, that would finally explain why.

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