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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Guster to c/wefwef
 

Can't access either webpage or app Had to post this through lemmy.world web.

Wondering if I need to fix anything on my end or if it's down for everyone

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[–] ruud 74 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hmm yeah I may have caused that... I'm suspecting it was WefWef that caused lemmy.world to slow down almost to a halt... I reverted a change I made for wefwef and now the site works again, but wefwef doesn't.. I guess we'll need to troubleshoot further

[–] FrankieDonkeyBrains 23 points 2 years ago

As a longtime user of Apollo and new user of Lemmy, I’m trying out a number of clients right now. I’m actually really impressed with wefwef. I’m definitely rooting for you!

[–] screx 7 points 2 years ago
[–] TheBig2023Meltdown 4 points 2 years ago

Single handedly causing carnage! /s

[–] Sunroc 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was conspiratorially thinking it was reddit doing a ddos attack. Lol

[–] Jackolantern 1 points 2 years ago

This would be like when WWE attacked WCW with DX front and center. But less awesome

[–] Sunroc 2 points 2 years ago

I was conspiratorially thinking it was reddit doing a ddos attack. Lol

[–] helloharu 1 points 2 years ago

Amazing. You made me go outside and touch grass.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

If you can, self host, there is a docker container as wefwef is open source. That helps distribute the load, and instances will not see tons of traffic coming from a single host (as wefwef proxies all requests).

[–] PineapplePartisan 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, wefwef proxies all requests? How is that not a man-in-the-middle attack? Are user credentials being stored by wefwef?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm selfhosting my client and still can't make it work with Lemmy.world.

[–] Guster 3 points 2 years ago

Would love to but not sure how to unfortunately and can't access lemmy documentation right now getting error 404

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. lemmy.world is either under heavy load or being updated to 0.18 (there was a post about it). As soon as the server comes back up, it should go back to normal.

[–] AlmightySnoo 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ruud just said otherwise lol

[–] LazaroFilm 1 points 2 years ago

Could be both. Update should start soon. Plus redditors are migrating today.

[–] twistedtxb 3 points 2 years ago

Using.world, I cannot access lemmy w/ wefwef. I can with any other client

[–] Rhoeri 3 points 2 years ago

It’s not working for me either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

When I was still on /kbin, I spent some time deciding which Lemmy instance to join, lemmy.world is the first to be crossed out since browsing it always feels incredibly slow.

[–] DriftingMangoes 2 points 2 years ago

It’s down for me as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’m getting the same issue on SDF’s instance. wefwef 0.9.0 was just released so that might be part of the issue.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I had to switch to vlemmy.net for it to work, which involved creating a new account and getting it approved. If this is the type of shit we have to put up with using Lemmy then I may as well just go back to Reddit

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

None of the people hosting these instances were prepared for the massive influx of new users. Lemmy is still a platform in it's infancy, many of the people running these instances are trying their hardest to keep things afloat.

Reddit is one of the largest platforms that exists and the number of people seeking an alternative is astronomical.

Besides that, if Reddit goes down, it's down. You can't just seek out another instance and use that, this is something I would personally consider a feature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Yup it’s not ready for prime time. I’m staying on Reddit until this platform matures a little bit more.