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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 253 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

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 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] antik 28 points 1 year ago

See, and that makes us happy

[–] PutangInaMo 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perfect thank you!

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

[–] Oneobi 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] PutangInaMo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Blamemeta 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] veroxii 17 points 1 year ago

It feels good to be home

[–] cheerjoy 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] BadRS 29 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I saw someone suggest Connect for Lemmy yesterday, Android app that has both instance blocking and keyword filtering. Overall the app is fine but until I find something I love that supports the filtering it's more than sufficient.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] remotelove 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a status page for the status page?

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[–] [email protected] 11 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.

[–] Discoslugs 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] moistclump 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] antik 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Was down this morning for me

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