Lemmy, in particular lemmy.ml, is so good that I've got completely used to checking it out almost every hour to enjoy the content. Kudos to all the mods and developers โค๏ธ
Recently, in the past few weeks, I couldn't help but notice that momentary outages of lemmy.ml, ranging from a couple of mins to longer than 30mins, have become more frequent.
Is my observation correct? Or I'm just addicted to Lemmy? ๐
If it is correct, have we got any idea what are the possible causes of the outages? In particular, I'd like to know if there's anything that I, as a member of this safe & welcoming community, can do to potentially help ยน.
On a related note, if the outages are of such a nature that may be predicted but not prevented (such as routine maintenance restart, load-testing or new feature deploy), do you folks think it makes sense to have a post here in "meta" at least a few mins prior to the action?
ยน I've got about a quarter of a century experience dealing w/ code and systems.
I appreciate my post may sound like a criticism of lemmy.ml (and hence the downvotes.) It's not. As I said, I'm genuinely trying to see if there's anything I can do to give back to one of my (few) favourite online communities.
That said, it seems like no one else shares my views. And that is understandable ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Yes, written communication is so tricky, esp RE sensitive topics like this. As a non-native speaker, I kind of knew I was going to mess it up, but I guess I just couldn't help my OCD ๐