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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] yumpoopsoup@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

If someone cares about their privacy that badly why vote at all? I'm sure votes are tracked by the sites on other websites?

[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

On the flip side, it also makes brigading easier to detect, so instances can defederate communities that routinely vote in bad faith.

[-] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

So only group think supported brigading is allowed, even better.

[-] Sausage_Mahoney@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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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[-] TomFrost@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Cloud architect here— I’m sure someone’s probably already brought it up, but I’m curious if any cloud native services have been considered to take the place of what I’m sure are wildly expensive server machines. E.g. serve frontends from cloudfront, host the read-side API on Lambda@Edge so you can aggressively and regionally cache API responses, anything other than an SQL for the database — model it in DynamoDB for dirt cheap wicked speed, or Neptune for a graph database that’s more expensive but more featureful. Drop sync jobs for federated connections into SQS, have a lambda process that too, and it will scale as horizontally as you need to clear the queue in reasonable time.

It’s not quite as simple to develop and deploy as docker containers you can throw anywhere, but the massive scale you can achieve with that for fractions of the cost of servers or fargate with that much RAM is pretty great.

Or maybe you already tried/modeled this and discovered it’s terrible for you use case, in which case ignore me ;-)

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[-] Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Growing Pains

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

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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