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!

      • Amanduh@kbin.social
        111·
        1 year ago

        I’m thoroughly confused by most of what is going on. I’m using kbin on mobile. The interface isn’t terrible and it fills the random surfing void that I am used to.

        • Mr_Jabroni@kbin.social
          241·
          1 year ago

          Just a heads up, you’re using kbin which is a different “website” than lemmy. You are also seeing a thread that originated in lemmy. That means both kbin and lemmy can see each other’s content, but the website UI is different between them so if you read about some UI element and can’t find it in kbin that might be one of the reasons.

          That being said, kbin also has a sidebar with useful information. In the mobile site you can find it at the very bottom on the page, since it doesn’t fit to the side in such a small screen.

          • Amanduh@kbin.social
            16·
            1 year ago

            Omg I never scrolled that far down lmao, now I can go block 196 and the other shit posting magazines

            • BrerChicken @lemmy.world
              5·
              1 year ago

              Yesss! Lemmy was difficult to use until I did that. Then eventually I had a long enough list of communities/magazines that I could browse subscribed only and that really supposed the issue. I’m busy not a fan of random porn and bigoted memes y’know?

              • Amanduh@kbin.social
                2·
                1 year ago

                I mean if a random nude crosses my feed I’m not bothered by it but I really just want to read some cool stuff maybe news etc for like 15 mins at a time throughout the day and this is scratching that itch for me.

            • T156@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              If you’re on Kbin mobile, you can also tap the hamburger bar on the top left to bring up that menu directly, instead of having to scroll all the way down.

              Also great for if you want to fiddle with dark mode and all of that.

    • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      Every community has a sidebar. If you’re at the page for the community it should be at the top of the website. “sidebar+”

      If you’re using a 3rd party app it’s different for each one in terms of how to see it.