Lemmy.World Announcements

Good luck.

TFW you run a small server with an open source social platform for shits any giggles and one month it explodes a thousandfold because of one greedy pig boy.

You know, maybe I'm being overly dramatic, but I really feel like we're at the beginning of something special. I realize that Lemmy has existed for some years, but the whole Reddit thing is really pushing it into the limelight, and it's new to me (I joined just before the blackout).

Seeing all the developers and admins dealing with the inevitable bugs, working together to keep the federated instances operating together during a huge surge in users, like a flotilla of disparate ships lashed together facing a major storm - it makes me excited, nervous, and hopeful. I fully intend to support developers and instances financially, but also want to give a big "yay team" shout-out.

This is like that scene in a sci-fi movie where they're trying to repair the ship mid-battle. Good luck!

PSA from Admin Team: The update completed roughly two hours ago. Since that time, the Admin team (and other site admins) have been working on the noted performance issues. We believe we have found a solution, but we still need time to test this out. You may still see brief outages and differences in performance as we are testing different configurations. We are trying to prevent rolling back.

While I know this can be frustrating - especially today - please keep in mind we have a team of volunteer techies (from around the globe!) collaborating on this issue. It is an inspiring situation. Also keep in mind that lemmy.world is quite a bit larger (and more active than any other instance). As such, we are a bit of a ‘test instance’ in regards to high volume requests. This is just part of the growing pain. We appreciate your understanding.

@[email protected] will provide a debrief once we have completed testing.

Godspeed. I really hope this is the one and the age of randomly redirecting to sports game threads will be over!

Thank you for the heads-up. 🤙

Is it wise to do a big deployment on the day when you may receive a massive influx of new users from Reddit? The API changes take affect on the 1st.

Server feels a lot better now than it did an hour ago. Comments are going through quickly and upvotes are working for me.

Hey man if y'all have planning meetings or anything for this stuff I'm willing to jump on and read the source code. 15 years engineering and dev, willing to put time in for you guys.

Good luck. This is my favorite instance so I will be eagerly awaiting. Lemmy has been incredible and strangely what I needed. I would doom scroll reddit and see the same posts and the same comment chains and just redundancy hell.

Lemmy feels so different and the community is so welcoming. Thanks again everyone for making this lost Redditor a found lemming (is that the correct term lol).

Can't you disable the post button within the upgrade progress? It's a shame to see posts to disappear due to it.

Fingers crossed. Would love for the auto refreshing to finally stop.

I can only wish you the best. You are an amazing person for signing up for all of this.

Thanks for all your hard work Ruud and team. This place is seriously shaping up well to completely replace my Reddit addiction.

Heyo! Small update from someone who is watching the upgrade live; it's ongoing still. Seems like they are still facing some performance issues. So grab your popcorn and wait! 🍿 (Btw, i am not a sysadmin, just a moderator)

Looking forward to it. The lag has been brutal.

Keeping my eyes crossed for you!

US people: This is 2p EDT today. I had to look it up, so I thought I'd save you the trouble.

EDIT: I'm assuming that Ruud means CEST (the summer daylight savings time version of the time zone that's currently being used there).

For those that were about to Google it... 20:00 CET is 12pm PDT and 3pm EDT

Waiting for the update so I can sign into Jerboa.

Lemmy looks like it's shaping up nicely to take over my Reddit habit

I hope it works! I'm so over posts just spawning into a page that is already loaded.

Performance is extremely uneven. Sometimes loads instantly, sometimes I get a timeout. Upvotes don't show up until reload. Still a lot better than the last attempt.

The server hamsters seem to be on fire, but I won't hold it against the service/community/individuals (except spez; fuck you spez). Lemmy is in the unfortunate position of being forced into a development model called "fuck it, we'll do it live!"

edit: commenting and editing seems to be fine.

Latest version of Jerboa on Google Play doesn't work with servers below 0.18;

For those who want to use Jerboa to access lemmy.world before the upgrade to 0.18.x happens, you can install a specific release from GitHub instead of Google Play. I found version 0.0.34-alpha to work (using it rn to post this). https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/releases/tag/0.0.34

Edit: since the update is done, it's probably best to go back to latest version. Glad I helped someone!

@[email protected] Your energy is amazing and commendable! Your Fediverse hobby is like what most people call a job! Thank you so much for all the hard work and attentive management, and also thanks to those that are helping! I hope more folks take a moment to look into the options for donating to the cause via Patreon and the other options you have. Excellent work ethic!

o7

Godspeed you absolute madlads.

And… we’re back!

Godspeed. I really hope this is the one and the age of randomly redirecting to sports game threads will be over!

May the odds be ever in ~~your~~ our favor.