Thanks for the update Manager! Happy holidays!
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Same to you Lewdicolius :)
It's OK, all this is temporary and when a Lemmy fix comes, these issues will be a distant memory :)
Just this day caught lemmy.today down twice, and first time it was super very dead for much longer than a few seconds or minutes.
Wonder if others had the same experience.
But first, enjoy Christmas holidays! All that stuff can be sorted out later, if there even is a way to fix it on the server admin side.
Thanks for keeping us informed!
Yes, it seems the restart is not as reliable as I was hoping for.
Its a docker compose restart of the entire stack but that has proven to work only sometimes, which is not good enough. This afternoon it failed once (as you noticed), then worked 4 times, then failed once more.
We will figure out a more reliable way to restart, but for now, the restart has been removed again.
Really sorry about all this. Just trying to find a way to make federation work again since its very frustrating when it doesnt.
Anyway, merry Christmas and thanks for being understanding during all this.
For what it's worth, I set up a cronjob on my instance to restart just the lemmy container every 6 hours. It looks like 0 */6 * * * docker container restart lemmy-lemmy-1. Federation has been pretty good so far, but it has only been in practice for less than a day.
Yeah I could try to restart only the Lemmy container instead of the entire stack. Worth trying, thank you. :)
I tried it and it does give 20 seconds of downtime but could be worth doing a couple of times per day anyway. Its so frustrating with no outgoing messages...
We must have all been very naughty this year for Santa to bring us this heap of bugs. :/
Hehe indeed. :)
Sadly, even with the scheduled restarts it seems like only about half of my posts and comments make it out to other instances.
As far as I can tell, not one of my comments has made it out in the last 4 days. No replies, no votes, not visible on any instance outside of lemmy.today.
Such is life on the bleeding edge...
Edit: seems like at least some got pushed out, as I'm finally getting responses again.
Everything is pushed out but only when we restart the server... Hopefully a fix for that soon!
We had to remove the scheduled restarts since they didn't work reliably and brought the server down. So they are not in effect right now. We do manual restarts a few times per day only.
Still hoping for a fix from Lemmy devs soon...
Well, at least it appears that they are aware of the problem, and one guy said he may have found a fix for it. There is a pull request open that might fix it, so hopefully, this'll be over soon.
That sounds awesome. I really hope it fixes the problem, this is so frustrating. Thanks for the links!
I'm still having problems. None of my comments or posts go outbound. But thank you for working on the problem!
Yeah its really annoying and makes it hard to have any discussions at all.
I will try now to restart only the lemmy docker container and see how it seems to work out. If the restart seems to work reliably many times in a row, I can schedule it to happen automatically.
Not giving up on making this work somehow. :)
Edit: Tried a restart of only the lemmy container and it does give like 20 seconds of downtime so not ideal. But maybe worth doing a couple of times per day at least.
Thank you!
I can't vote, comment, subscribe, or post anywhere at lemmynsfw. Is because it's defederated here? Or is the cause because of the federation problems you've been seeing?
Hi,
It's because of the very annoying outgoing federation issues we have now on Lemmy 0.19.1.
All incoming data works very well but outgoing doesn't get sent until a restart of the Lemmy software, and then only once after restart. We will do a quick restart a couple of times per day and then your comments, posts etc will federate but of course it's really annoying with that long time in between your activity and others seeing it.
Hopefully there is a fix from Lemmy developers after new years. It has a bad idea to upgrade Lemmy before Xmas, and lesson has been very learned, believe me. :)