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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€“] Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update, glad you guys are being transparent about the issues everyone seems to be facing. Looking forward to the coming improvements. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] quinten@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great work! We believe in you guys.

[โ€“] rostad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think most of the users can understand the current situation. Take care guys and girls!

[โ€“] Sneckster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Your work is much appreciated!

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update!

So seems that Reddit refugees influx indeed hit this instance.

[โ€“] suckaduck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You lot are internet heroes. Thank you for putting in the work and creating this community!

Thanks a lot for addressing these issues. It's really nice to see how this platform keeps growing and growing.

[โ€“] neblem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hope hosting all these massive communities is enough a portfolio to land Ruud a crazy job offer one day that pays him stupid levels of money while allowing him plenty of time off to maintain these massive hobby projects.

[โ€“] joetom01@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In which country is this server located?

[โ€“] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your hard work and transparency

[โ€“] Achsonaja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Curious about the server info. Is there more info available somewhere else?

Is lemmy.world running on a single server? What's the CPU and memory capacity? You mentioned a percentage of CPU usage and an amount for ram, so that made me curious about what's available for each.

Does restarting take down all services or is the application clustered or not monolithic somehow?

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[โ€“] patsharpesmullet@feedly.j-cloud.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything to be said for using me cache or redis?

Appreciate all the work. Iโ€™ve only been on Lemmy a few days but the openness is refreshing and I think this place has been pretty cool.

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

Thanks for the update and keep up the great work! :)

Connect for Lemmy, Android and yeah still happening.

[โ€“] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Growing Pains

[โ€“] solrize@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all your hard work. Wow that is a lot of CPU usage. I hope it can be tuned more. Is it mostly postgres causing the load?

[โ€“] YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

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.

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