The last 5 days have been very busy, as expected. Things always get intense for a while when other people start using new software out there in the real world.
The main purpose of this phase is to fix problems that show up and to get enough #ActivityPub data flowing through the system to highlight any fundamental design problems with either the structure of the database or the code. I have been pleasantly surprised at how well it handles a high volume of incoming Activity data. After 5 days of operations there are now 7,000 posts, 28,000 comments and 500,000 votes while all database queries are still returning their results in under 100ms and CPU load average is under 1.0 (under 0.20 during quiet times). It seems to be about 33% as heavy as my #Kbin instance (running on the same server) was.
As well as fixing bugs and monitoring performance, I’ve added a slew of improvements and features:
Image posts can be viewed ‘inline’, without having to go to the post itself. Look for the magnifying-glass icon. This will the body of text posts in the same way, soon.
Community subscriptions can be imported from #Lemmy
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