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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

Status update July 4th

Just wanted to let you know where we are with Lemmy.world.

Issues

As you might have noticed, things still won't work as desired.. we see several issues:

Performance

  • Loading is mostly OK, but sometimes things take forever
  • We (and you) see many 502 errors, resulting in empty pages etc.
  • System load: The server is roughly at 60% cpu usage and around 25GB RAM usage. (That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%)

Bugs

  • Replying to a DM doesn't seem to work. When hitting reply, you get a box with the original message which you can edit and save (which does nothing)
  • 2FA seems to be a problem for many people. It doesn't always work as expected.

Troubleshooting

We have many people helping us, with (site) moderation, sysadmin, troubleshooting, advise etc. There currently are 25 people in our Discord, including admins of other servers. In the Sysadmin channel we are with 8 people. We do troubleshooting sessions with these, and sometimes others. One of the Lemmy devs, @nutomic@lemmy.ml is also helping with current issues.

So, all is not yet running smoothly as we hoped, but with all this help we'll surely get there! Also thank you all for the donations, this helps giving the possibility to use the hardware and tools needed to keep Lemmy.world running!

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[-] slimarev92@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

How can I donate to lemmy.world?

[-] Taxxor@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just look at the sidebar:

Donations
If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the mastodon. world donation URLs:

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

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[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To all the folks that are worried, don't be. Let me tell you, Mastodon was a wreck when Musk took over Twitter and that all got sorted out within a week or so. The mods and sysadmin are obviously working hard to get things up and running, but growing pains are growing pains. To paraphrase an old adage: "Facebook wasn't built in a day." In the beginning, Zuck and Co literally limited signups to only people with college email accounts and only added universities a few domains at a time... scaling is very difficult, but it's not impossible. The way things are going, Lemmy is going to thrive!

[-] HiddenTower@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Please keep working on it, thank you for your effort.

[-] erik1984@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Thanks again for all the hard work on Lemmy World. It feels fast today

[-] Sentau@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

People of lemmy.world should encourage the new users joining up on lemmy.world to other create accounts on other instances instead

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Thank you for everything! Can we donate to cover the costs? If more people throw in $5, we all will benefit. Can Lemmy server scale up without needing RAM exponentially growing with the user number? I hope the system will get better optimized for bigger user base as the time goes on..

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[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Thanks for giving us all these updates all the time!

[-] parachute@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Would donations help in the long run? How can we donate?

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[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Thanks team, love your work! Appreciate the updates and improvements but happy to have this place despite the bugs and quirks :)

[-] popemichael@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I'm very much so okay putting up with hiccups right now. I know things will improve in the future.

Thank you and everyone for all your hard work!

[-] ryannathans@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

The good thing about the fediverse is we can sign up on federated servers and still interact with everything on lemmy.world without the errors, then come back to our lemmy.world accounts when everything is smoother

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[-] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I feel that lemmy runs smoothly the past few hours with very few hiccups and mostly on the upvoting and commenting side. I encountered no issues yet on the loading of the post.

Thank you so much for all your hard work.

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

Its amazing this site hasn't completely melted down yes it sucks trying to use it and having nothing load but the fact that the site has mostly worked when I want to use it and the fact you guys have less than 1% of 1% of reddits resources is mind blowing

[-] COOLSJ@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine how hard it is to rua server that has influx of large users. I Thank you for your hard work to run and maintain this instance. Hope it works out well and future will be a smooth sail.

[-] ThaijsClan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I love the community here and am excited to see it grow. Thanks for giving a report, it awesome how invested y'all are and makes me want to stick with this instance even through the hardships. Keep up the good stuff!

[-] el_cordoba@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I am sure the stress is unreal, but It is appreciated. You all stepped up when everyone was stepping down (or trying to sellout). I am hopeful this will turn into something great.

[-] GlintingKingfisher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the transparent update!

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks u/ruud!

How are you managing all of this in addition to having a life outside of Lemmy? This kind of went from 0-60 in a blink.

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[-] EpicMuellsTime@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Can anyone give me a link to donate to help out? Ever since discovering lemmy I hardly use reddit and would like to contribute to this community more!

[-] Gold_ghost057@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yep! Donating to both their Open Collective page for Mastodon.World (didn't grab that link by accident), as well as their Patreon page for Mastodon.World works!

They have a note up on Patreon that donations there also contribute to World.Lemmy, as well as another Lemmy instance!

Here's the link to their Patreon; https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

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[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It has become way smoother the last few hours. The work you guys from .world and Lemmy's devs have been doing is amazing!

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for your hard work! ♥️

[-] ben914@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the transparency, and communication. I think it's always better when the userbase is able to understand what is going on rather than being left in the dark wondering what is going wrong. Keep up the good work, but also be sure you guys get enough rest, and take care of yourselves too.

[-] thatguy_ie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the transparency @ruud@lemmy.world It is rare for platforms to scale this quickly so issues like this are inevitable. Good luck for the troubleshooting!

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