The instance has been down several times over the past few days?
Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?
volunteer run and volunteer paid servers sometimes go down. you may not be used to this happening with large, for-profit websites.
I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We’re so used to crazy uptimes that it’s easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.
I remember the “by what right do you exclude the population” video when Reddit was down. Good times long before the enshittification.
Edit: here’s the video: https://youtu.be/KqRPOEa3P44?si=d5k94eccnJz7SauS
I remember when ‘literally’ wasn’t the only adverb people knew.
Who’d have guessed that volunteers without big bags of cash usually only actually have one or two actual servers running and they somehow can’t afford a whole fleet of failover servers for when traffic gets too high.
Actually, I’m more used to the big sites going down, than small ones, but considering the fact that they are well-fed to come back online, compared to volunteer projects, just gave me some concerns
I totally understand, and it’s a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, it’s entirely possible that monitoring isn’t in place, or it is in place but notifications aren’t setup, or that is the case but people can’t respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours… I’m speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.
https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/#month
They do a lot to be transparent and monitor availability.
There is an big usage jump before Xmas, I assume because of the recent lemmy version upgrade that many admins are saying uses more resources.
Give em some time, I’m sure there will be a patch soon.
Best part of the fediverse is you can just use a less popular server until things calm down.
It has? I haven’t noticed. I’m guessing a lot of people have been bored over Christmas.
World is probably overwhelmed again. I switched from world because of frequent outages. I don’t think you have to worry about UK scenario however, since the problem there was that the instance owner went awol.
Lemmy.World hasn’t had many major issues since September, at least when I’ve been using it. It was really bad in the early days from June to August when they were constantly getting traffic + getting DDOS’d. It seems like they’ve had the best uptime overall, since then though
Are you donating to Lemmy world? If you have concerns, start donating. Money makes the Lemmy.world stay online
Easy there, Chicken Little, the sky isn’t falling. That was just an acorn.
I don’t think lemmy.world is going anywhere, but I keep this lemmy.ca account as a backup just in case of .world outages. It’s been coming in handy the last couple of days.
glad to have you here :)
Feddit.uk is still up you nonce. What are you on about?
There was a whole lot of drama around it a couple of days ago.
Think I’m getting deja vu or Mandela’d. I swear I read that week’s ago and it sorted itself out.
So what’s the new instance URL?
It eventually came back online, and the people behind the new one don’t want to share the new instance until it’s “ready”. I don’t understand it either.
They need a dashingly handsome and charismatic leader such as me to show them the right path to glory. Unfortunately, I’m going to bed.
For me it is more often slow than actually down.
I have noticed sometimes posting a comment will take longer but I just swap apps for a few when that happens.
You go when you’re ready lemmy pats mouse’s head
The instance has been down several times over the past few days?
That reads like a statement but you’re asking a question.
I have other concerns about lemmy world, you might want to look for another instance and see how you like it.
You misspelled, “Hey it seems like this thing I get to use for free needs some help. What can I do?”
I welcome your condemnation
This is just lemmy.world being lemmy.world, that’s been a constant for them.
