Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-04

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 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!

Cshock159,

Could I get a discord invite? I’m an ex sysadmin with a. Lot of free time

kratoz29,

Thanks for the update!

So seems that Reddit refugees influx indeed hit this instance.

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ronondex,

Small remark instead of /u/… you should use the at-sign @ to mention somebody. For example: Hey @Ghostalmedia.

teraflopsweat,

How do you know which community the user is from?

LeberechtReinhold,
@LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world avatar

It should tell you on mousehover if not straight up listed. If there’s no community, it’s because they come from lemmy.world.

TBH its all confusing and all names should be full names like email adress.

ColonelPanic,

In the browser when you hover over the display name, you should see the full username. I don’t know how it’s shown in the various apps but it should appear if you view the user’s profile.

ruud,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

Same happened with mastodon.world in November. Family goes first, then work, and then all of my hobbies, of which this is one. (But the one taking up most time at the moment…)

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

You’re a legend! Thanks so much Ruud!

Glad to hear that your priorities are in the right order. Family comes before helping random strangers posts pictures of beans on the internet.

Dr_Fetus_Jackson,
Dr_Fetus_Jackson avatar

Blasphemy!

YellowtoOrange,
@YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world avatar

As much as I hope that Lemmy grows, I wouldn’t want lemmy.world to suddenly get 1 million signups and multiply your headaches.

Perhaps we need more well run servers by other people to take the load.

AlmightySnoo,
@AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world avatar

That is, if we restart Lemmy every 30 minutes. Else memory will go to 100%

who’d have thought memory leaks would be possible in Rust 🤯

(sorry not sorry Rust devs)

pseudo,
@pseudo@lemmy.world avatar

c/programmingcirclejerk when?

maiskanzler,

Ackchually, leaking memory is totally possible in Rust! But so is hogging way too much of it because you're hanging on to too many things in memory at once🤷

inclementimmigrant,

Connect for Lemmy, Android and yeah still happening.

Mantis_Toboggan,
@Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, I’m having the 2FA problem. I can’t log into mobile, because no code gets generated. Luckily I’ll just stay logged into a browser for now.

But thanks for all the hard work! :) You’re probably getting a flux of Reddit migrants, such as myself now

ruud,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

I removed the 2fa for you

Mantis_Toboggan,
@Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world avatar

Oh thanks so much!

figaro,

Nice! It feels better now.

erik1984,

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

WubbyGeth,

Do you need any spare server hardware? @ruud I would be happy to donate some!

ruud,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

No thanks, it’s all at Hetzner, and thanks to all donations we can extend when needed!

inclementimmigrant,

Don’t know about anyone else but I keep getting a "cannot load comments"error and the whole post goes blank.

ruud,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

Still happening? What browser/app and OS?

Tag365,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

Can we configure the website to not automatically collapse deep replies? Or at least to collapse them only past six or seven layers deep?

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

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  • Guster,

    Same here

    slimarev92,

    How can I donate to lemmy.world?

    lemming007,

    By moving to another instance

    alaphic,
    CuriousLibrarian,

    Not an expert, but here is where I set up a recurring donation. Apparently Mastadon.world and Lemmy.world are run by the same admins. Took me a while to understand this, please correct me if I’m wrong.

    assassin_aragorn,

    Thanks for giving us all these updates all the time!

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