The high CPU issue that is causing midwest.social to slow way down and timeout on HTTP requests is still a mystery to me. But, it seems to do it less often and for less time now.
Here is CPU usage over 24 hours:
It’s a bunch of SELECT statements in Postgres that all seem to fire at one time and take a while to complete as a batch. I’ve inspected the logs and haven’t seen anything unusual. Just stuff federating and posts receiving upvotes.
It could be, can you try one more time?
@seahorse it’s just spinning for an unusually long time, with no specific error. Got to be 5 minutes by now. I’ve been bouncing between failing the Captcha and getting a “too many requests” error yesterday and earlier today. If it turns out I’m failing the Captcha because I’m a robot, please let me down gently 😉
It is rate limited by IP address. Close the page, wait 10 minutes, then try again is what I’d do.