We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.
Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.
Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.
We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.
Cleared my cache and cookies as I thought it would be necessary like last time, but now I can’t log in. The login button just turns into the animated wheel and then nothing happens. I’m typing this on a mobile where I still have an active session.
I can’t also login
Server is overloaded
Same here. Can’t log in on Jerboa. Luckily I am using multiple apps and am able to stay logged in from Connect right now 👍
Don’t log out; got it!
update: opened Firefox’s inspector, the login form sends a POST request to lemmy.world/api/v3/user/login but that request seems to always return a 404 error. Maybe there’s some issue with paths @ruud? On lemmy.ml if there’s really a login issue the request returns a 400 status code instead.
I’m trying to login on Jerboa now and it spins forever :(
I can’t not login also
Good luck! Posted 19:59 CET.
Looking forward to it. The lag has been brutal.
Happy to be here. o7
Just a heads-up. I ended up having to create a new login at lemm.ee because even after the improvements in speed and so on with the upgrade, for all intents and purposes it looks like my account here may have been wiped. Can’t login from anywhere, getting “Record not found” whenever I try to sign in on Connect, “incorrect login” from Jerboa, and a spinning button and then nothing on a PC browser, basically treating my account as if it doesn’t exist. Some folks appear to be able to login though. Is this an ongoing server issue, or did my account actually get wiped? Same username (Grangle1) as on lemm.ee.
Logins are returning non found errors. It’s a bug. If you had a previous session that’s as already logged in, you should be able to access it.
Godspeed. I really hope this is the one and the age of randomly redirecting to sports game threads will be over!
Working for me currently on connect for Lemmy.
Thanks
Wow, this is much faster now that caches are built.
The last few minutes the site seems to be very fast! Let’s hope it stays this way!
Fingers crossed. Would love for the auto refreshing to finally stop.
TFW you run a small server with an open source social platform for shits any giggles and one month it explodes a thousandfold because of one greedy pig boy.
I’ve spent almost an hour trying to just to sign up. Poor servers. This is my first comment here and I sincerely hope this takes off in the best way.
Been here for a month~. Other than a few growing pains it’s been pretty smooth. An initial learning curve on the whole instance/lemmy/fediverse thing and learning to sort by all/hot or active instead of just “local” to get ALL if the lemmy-verse instead of just your own instance. Once you learn how to use it it’s a much better experience the reddit. Right now it’s getting the reddit hug of death. But it will survive and flourish.
I’ve been on here almost a month and there are usually very few issues and the admin team are quick to troubleshoot when an issue does arise. It should calm down soon!
Amusingly you sent that twice, presumably because of aforementioned server squeeze 😂 The first thing I noticed in my settings menu is the ability to hide bot accounts. That in itself makes this x10 better than Reddit. All those automated bot posts became such a huge pain in the arse to me.
I’ve been on here almost a month and there are usually very few issues and the admin team are quick to troubleshoot when an issue does arise. It should calm down soon!
Servers are being hammered hard right now lol, but it should calm down soon, you’ll see it’s pretty stable outside of reddit hugs of death :D
It’ll calm down as in more resources are provisioned or redditors looking to ditch reddit give up and go back to reddit because of stability issues, thus lowering use count closer to normal?
Because the later isn’t ideal 😬
I have business fiber and my own compute, can nodes be ran distributed? I’d be happy to spin up VMs to run a node service. Or does this rely on a single central host?
You can host your own instance, which will be federated with this one by default. Every little bit helps.
Can you tell me more?
Can we have distributed compute? Is there some official process to be federated with lemmy.world to provide resources? How do upgrades work? I assume some sort of consensus algorithm is in use (ie. Raft)?
It’s not distributed computing, they are different servers independent from each other but that replicate data among them because they use the same communication protocol (ActivityPub), that’s what federation does.
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Best way to make it take off is contribute content. Find some communities you enjoy and post 😄
Good luck. This is my favorite instance so I will be eagerly awaiting. Lemmy has been incredible and strangely what I needed. I would doom scroll reddit and see the same posts and the same comment chains and just redundancy hell.
Lemmy feels so different and the community is so welcoming. Thanks again everyone for making this lost Redditor a found lemming (is that the correct term lol).
Can’t you disable the post button within the upgrade progress? It’s a shame to see posts to disappear due to it.
The best would be to redirect to a 502 for the duration of the migration. Better safe than sorry
I think a static page page explaining to users that the server is being upgraded would be best.
You know, maybe I’m being overly dramatic, but I really feel like we’re at the beginning of something special. I realize that Lemmy has existed for some years, but the whole Reddit thing is really pushing it into the limelight, and it’s new to me (I joined just before the blackout).
Seeing all the developers and admins dealing with the inevitable bugs, working together to keep the federated instances operating together during a huge surge in users, like a flotilla of disparate ships lashed together facing a major storm - it makes me excited, nervous, and hopeful. I fully intend to support developers and instances financially, but also want to give a big “yay team” shout-out.
Not dramatic at all. This feels like starting fresh, and the enthusiasm and excitement makes it feel like the early 2010s of the internet again. I love it 😍
I think the solving the bugs and server issues is great to see, but I also think Lemmy is facing some deep issues about its design in the future, and it’s going to take more than technical know-how to fix it.
Yeah, I agree. I think they can be worked out, but I don’t think they have been yet. I think there’s a lot of potential in the distributed architecture, and am excited to see it progress.
