Lemmy, in particular lemmy.ml, is so good that I’ve got completely used to checking it out almost every hour to enjoy the content. Kudos to all the mods and developers ❤️

Recently, in the past few weeks, I couldn’t help but notice that momentary outages of lemmy.ml, ranging from a couple of mins to longer than 30mins, have become more frequent.

Is my observation correct? Or I’m just addicted to Lemmy? 😂

If it is correct, have we got any idea what are the possible causes of the outages? In particular, I’d like to know if there’s anything that I, as a member of this safe & welcoming community, can do to potentially help ¹.

On a related note, if the outages are of such a nature that may be predicted but not prevented (such as routine maintenance restart, load-testing or new feature deploy), do you folks think it makes sense to have a post here in “meta” at least a few mins prior to the action?

¹ I’ve got about a quarter of a century experience dealing w/ code and systems.

  • bahmanm@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I appreciate my post may sound like a criticism of lemmy.ml (and hence the downvotes.) It’s not. As I said, I’m genuinely trying to see if there’s anything I can do to give back to one of my (few) favourite online communities.

    That said, it seems like no one else shares my views. And that is understandable 🤷‍♂️

    • xhci@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think I agree with you, and maybe it’s people misinterpreting tone? At the end of the day it’s a FOSS non-profit effort, but there are a ton of nerds here (like myself) who would probably enjoy hearing more about the technical behind-the-scenes work.

      • bahmanm@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, written communication is so tricky, esp RE sensitive topics like this. As a non-native speaker, I kind of knew I was going to mess it up, but I guess I just couldn’t help my OCD 😂

  • Damoun@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As always, the best support is to donate to you instance. Servers are expensive and improving reliability will increase hosting cost.

    • bahmanm@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      donate to you instance.

      That’s a good sign of support and I’ve already done that 😎 Honestly the quality of the software and the friendliness of the community made it a no-brainer for me only a few days after logging in for the first time.

      That said, I think there’s more I can do than my humble donation - I’ve got plenty of, hopefully, relevant experience under my belt and am eager to put it to good use for Lemmy.

      Servers are expensive and improving reliability will increase hosting cost.

      Definitely 💯

      What I was trying to get at in my post was not rather improve the hardware or ask lemmy.ml folks to sweat more for free. By the gods, no! Rather I was suggesting that maybe w/ a couple of, hopefully, easy and not time consuming moves we could up our level at lemmy.ml. Though I realised what I was talking about, wasn’t among the main concerns of the community. Which is totally reasonable.