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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I remember when 'literally' wasn't the only adverb people knew.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Do you literally remember it, or merely figuratively?

[–] no_me_jodas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

🎶 “She is literally the Polaroid of perfection…” 🎶

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 72 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

It has? I haven't noticed. I'm guessing a lot of people have been bored over Christmas.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No i don't believe you'd have to worry about that.

Lemmy.world seems to get a lot of flack, which i guess comes with its size, but i am very happy with what they're doing. I think their team does a great job, thank you lemmy.world team!

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, we're trying ❤️

Also to address the folks in the thread. We've noticed a ton of lag spikes over the last week. This is new to us. Things were very stable for a long time, even after the Pictrs upgrade. It might be v0.19.x related. We're going to run some tests later, but sometimes it's difficult for us to get to things due to work and family.

We're still here and listening 💪😎💪

I try and post stuff to Mastodon here and there.

When in doubt, check the dashboard 🤓

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I checked the status dasboard, mastodon and even the announcements, but nothing has been posted there. That's why I was a bit concerned.

Thx for the clarification 👍

[–] DrRatso@lemmy.ml 27 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

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

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 19 points 9 months ago

Are you donating to Lemmy world? If you have concerns, start donating. Money makes the Lemmy.world stay online

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Easy there, Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling. That was just an acorn.

[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

glad to have you here :)

[–] Aurix@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

For me it is more often slow than actually down.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

That reads like a statement but you're asking a question.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Surely not as bad as asking a question in the form of a statement is it.

[–] Tatters@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

What do you mean.

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You misspelled, “Hey it seems like this thing I get to use for free needs some help. What can I do?”