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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I go to Admin -> Site Profile -> Icon and choose a .webp or a .png picture and click the Save button at the bottom, I get a message at the top Settings saved. but the Icon is not changed anywhere. Not in the top left, not the favicon and so on. Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding the functionality?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Definitely a bug! I'll get right on that one.

Nice to see people trying PieFed out. How was the setup process & documentation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh it was a delight! Actually I am trying to switch because I'm so tired of how badly the lemmy software works.

Already last time updating to 0.19.3 I spent so much time tweaking things just so it would not hog all the servers resources, but after the update to 0.19.4 I'm ready to give up on it.

I have like 15 services or so running on the server and they all run nicely together and making a load of 0.5, but once I start lemmy the load goes first up to 8 then over time to 12 and by that time there are so many problems that my other services start hanging and I have to restart the server. This is why I had to stop it yesterday.

But because the threadyverse is my main source of news I couldn't just quit it. I remembered PieFed and that it's written in python and in a simple way like my other services. No need for docker and complicated deploy mechanisms.

But the biggest pro is that with the same communities subscribed to, the load is always between 1 and 1.5 which is totally amazing!

The setup was very stright forward too, just following the instructions, even if I never worked with flask or celery before. I think it took me half an hour to have everything running without problems.

Then it took me a lot of time to subscribe to all the communities only shortly after I did to realize that there is a import communities from lemmy tool 🤦.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's so good to hear!

I've paid close attention to performance because I've seen the huge expensive servers people are renting for their instances (Mastodon, especially) and it's difficult to see the financial sustainability of that.

Once I fix the logo issue, you'll want to deploy the latest code. To do this, change into the PieFed directory and then run ./deploy.sh to pull down the latest changes from codeberg and restart all the services, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've written some code to make this work, please give it a try.