Has something happened? I made 3 posts and a few comments late yesterday and they're all gone today (but still appear on the federated instances I posted them to)

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[–] admin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We're having some technical difficulties with backups and such. Things should be back to normal sometime later today. Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the crappy Lemmy software that runs this site. We'll, more than likely, be leaving the Lemmy platform in the next several months.

[–] forestG@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even though the data loss is a little sad (much time went into thoughtful comments now lost), it's on version 0.18.4... Bugs are to be expected.

I don't know whether this was caused by the timestamp issue mentioned by Penguin in the other thread about delays, but yeah, it's obvious that the technology is not yet mature enough. Let alone it being suitable (alyaza mentioned the growth of storage space, which doesn't even make sense when there is no data mining in place, since actual people pretty much never return to older posts)...

On topic, from the outside, the data loss, looks like a database rollback to a previous snapshot.

Anyway, I hope this doesn't make you feel bad, you 've got a good thing going here, regardless of the technical issues, lemmy, or the fediverse as a whole.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Even though the data loss is a little sad (much time went into thoughtful comments now lost)

On the bright side, those comments still got federated, so they reached whoever you were talking to, and are still available on federated instances, even via mastodon... and if Beehaw doesn't have a copy anymore, and doesn't publish an updated version with a delete action on them, they may stay there forever... 😐