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Lemmy Project Priorities Observations

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I've raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new [email protected] and [email protected] communities.

I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.

I've been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a "did not deliver" message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to "eat their own dog food" and actually use Lemmy's communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.

I'll toss it into this echo chamber.

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ORM and SQL .. I mean it's lived up to the bad side of the reputation.

It hides it. As someone said here:

"Osiris on June 18, 2021 | unvote | parent | context | favorite | on: DenoDB

I hate ORMs with the fury of a thousand suns. The problem is that I know SQL but now I have to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how to convert SQL into ORM X just so it can convert it back to inefficient SQL. SQL mostly translates between various databases but ORMs are unique and you have to learn a new API for each one.

I'm on a project using TypeORM and it has been fantastic at helping developers on my team make really bad schemas due to not understanding how to use TypeORM to make the right relationships.

Currently I'm looking at pg-types because you just write SQL and it just helps by making some TypeScript types for you.

(I have used ORMs in C#, PHP, and JavaScript and I hate all of them)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27547163

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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lemmy.world throwing this just on routine home page. It's been this way since I started visiting in May... and I can crash a single-user server pretty easily by matching the number of communities and posts in the database. IT isn't DDOS, it's bad SQL.