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Lemmy.World Announcements

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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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[โ€“] parachute@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] technopagan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] parachute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, done!

this is interesting indeed! could we help via donations?

[โ€“] jochem@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Donations definitely help. They are a real motivator and allow people to make more time for contributing. For instances it is also a way to cover hosting costs.

You can donate directly to the Lemmy development or you can see if your instance accepts donations. Personally I just signed up to the Lemmy Patreon.

[โ€“] Sightline@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Donations invested into REITs would fund Lemmy indefinitely, has anyone pondered this idea?