Good luck.

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.

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.

This is like that scene in a sci-fi movie where they're trying to repair the ship mid-battle. Good luck!

PSA from Admin Team: The update completed roughly two hours ago. Since that time, the Admin team (and other site admins) have been working on the noted performance issues. We believe we have found a solution, but we still need time to test this out. You may still see brief outages and differences in performance as we are testing different configurations. We are trying to prevent rolling back.

While I know this can be frustrating - especially today - please keep in mind we have a team of volunteer techies (from around the globe!) collaborating on this issue. It is an inspiring situation. Also keep in mind that lemmy.world is quite a bit larger (and more active than any other instance). As such, we are a bit of a ‘test instance’ in regards to high volume requests. This is just part of the growing pain. We appreciate your understanding.

@[email protected] will provide a debrief once we have completed testing.

Godspeed. I really hope this is the one and the age of randomly redirecting to sports game threads will be over!

Thank you for the heads-up. 🤙

Is it wise to do a big deployment on the day when you may receive a massive influx of new users from Reddit? The API changes take affect on the 1st.

Server feels a lot better now than it did an hour ago. Comments are going through quickly and upvotes are working for me.

Hey man if y'all have planning meetings or anything for this stuff I'm willing to jump on and read the source code. 15 years engineering and dev, willing to put time in for you guys.

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.

Fingers crossed. Would love for the auto refreshing to finally stop.

I can only wish you the best. You are an amazing person for signing up for all of this.

Thanks for all your hard work Ruud and team. This place is seriously shaping up well to completely replace my Reddit addiction.

Heyo! Small update from someone who is watching the upgrade live; it's ongoing still. Seems like they are still facing some performance issues. So grab your popcorn and wait! 🍿 (Btw, i am not a sysadmin, just a moderator)

Looking forward to it. The lag has been brutal.

Keeping my eyes crossed for you!

US people: This is 2p EDT today. I had to look it up, so I thought I'd save you the trouble.

EDIT: I'm assuming that Ruud means CEST (the summer daylight savings time version of the time zone that's currently being used there).

For those that were about to Google it... 20:00 CET is 12pm PDT and 3pm EDT

Waiting for the update so I can sign into Jerboa.

Lemmy looks like it's shaping up nicely to take over my Reddit habit

I hope it works! I'm so over posts just spawning into a page that is already loaded.

Latest version of Jerboa on Google Play doesn't work with servers below 0.18;

For those who want to use Jerboa to access lemmy.world before the upgrade to 0.18.x happens, you can install a specific release from GitHub instead of Google Play. I found version 0.0.34-alpha to work (using it rn to post this). https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/releases/tag/0.0.34

Edit: since the update is done, it's probably best to go back to latest version. Glad I helped someone!

Performance is extremely uneven. Sometimes loads instantly, sometimes I get a timeout. Upvotes don't show up until reload. Still a lot better than the last attempt.

The server hamsters seem to be on fire, but I won't hold it against the service/community/individuals (except spez; fuck you spez). Lemmy is in the unfortunate position of being forced into a development model called "fuck it, we'll do it live!"

edit: commenting and editing seems to be fine.

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Godspeed you absolute madlads.

@[email protected] Your energy is amazing and commendable! Your Fediverse hobby is like what most people call a job! Thank you so much for all the hard work and attentive management, and also thanks to those that are helping! I hope more folks take a moment to look into the options for donating to the cause via Patreon and the other options you have. Excellent work ethic!

And… we’re back!

Godspeed. I really hope this is the one and the age of randomly redirecting to sports game threads will be over!

May the odds be ever in your our favor.

This is our home now. May the road rise to meet us. And FUCK Spez

Good luck! Really looking forward to the new version

Good luck! Posted 19:59 CET.

I sadly couldn't use the web version of lemmy.world at all cause of the websocket issues. 0.18+ is gonna be an amazing upgrade fore this instance! All the devs and staff who made this happen have my undying respect.

Y'all are so nice and transparent here. This place is lovely, unlike Reddit and their admins lol.

Hopefully third time's the charm and the upgrade will be successful.

Thanks for giving me a new home.

o7

Bon courage mon ami with the upgrade. You guys rock.

Nice work with everything so far, really liking it. What all is being changed/fixed in the new revision? Is it just more efficient code to support higher site traffic?

Good luck! 🍀

I’m going to begin supporting this instance on Patreon starting this month, I guess symbolic of the changing times and server demands.

It’s awesome to see some teamwork between server admins. Best of luck with the upgrade, hope it goes smoothly for you this time!

I can't login on my lemmy.world account, neither on Jerboa nor in the browser, I'm getting "Incorrect login" :(

(I'm posting from Liftoff because I was already logged in)

Fingers crossed and thanks for all the transparency!!

Looks like it works, but it's very slow - 25 seconds to load the page. https://i.imgur.com/ghiofDC.png

Is the update done? I hope not because can't i upvote😅

Best of luck with everything. This is the fix that would fix the instant crashing with Jerboa if it works, correct?

o7

May god help us all

Seems I can't upvote

Edit. I can upvote, but with a lot of delay!

You have the support of Dragon of Dojima. We'll take out reddit ourselves. You have my word

Server has sped up significantly. Things are getting faster / better.

Maybe 0.18.1-RC4 will stick? Lets hope!

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.

looking good so far, the instance is back, testing to post!

GL! And while at it, a big thank you for running (and fixing occasional server oopsies) this instance. :) I started to donate for the server costs, even if 1€ is mostly symbolic

Looks like the update is showing, but it's been slow since. Hopefully not permanent. Also having issues upvoting.

o7

My outdoor BBQ Im hosting starts at the same time as the lemmy upgrade. See you all on the other side and good luck LW admin!

Stay on target.....

Seems to have worked! Typed from Jeboa :)

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.

Posting and seems fine from Jerboa, can't log in using wefwef.

let's fucking go!!!

Good luck! And thanks for keeping us updated with what you're all doing, I don't know why but it makes me feel part of something big :D

Thanks for everything you do, [email protected]

Crossing my fingers, excited for the update

Crossing my fingers for everything to work out well. I’m looking forward to being able to log into Jerboa.

Feels very sluggish for me

Wow, this is much faster now that caches are built.

Slow, but working.

I don't know if we're slow because of the upgrade, or because of the July rush from Reddit losing 3rd party API access.

I am probably one of many refugees coming from Reddit. Here is hoping lemmy grows and grows well.

May the surf be calm and the sailing smooth.

Success?! Hello from 0.18 :)

The UI is a lot smoother. Feels good man.

Edit: servers are very sluggish though. Hopefully this gets fixed without needing to roll back.

Goodluck and thanks for the effort in all of this guys.

Something tells me it will work this time.

o7

Looks like it worked! Thanks for all you do @Ruud!

o7

See you on the other side

Thanks Ruud. In June I donated to the Lemmy Devs and in July I’ll donate to Lemmy.world I appreciate all of your work.

Godspeed, commander.

Finally able to register. Glad to be here.

I am probably one of many refugees coming from Reddit. Here is hoping lemmy grows and grows well.

Did I just check lemmy right after the reboot? Good timing huh

I'm here to stay 🤟

Good luck!

Good luck, we’re all counting on you

Can't login anymore. I'll just use my .ca account for now while things get sorted. Not a big deal. These things take time.

Great! Let's hope it goes well since many users will default to jerboa when migrating.

What is new with the updated version later today?

Good luck!!!

Good luck.

Hey man if y'all have planning meetings or anything for this stuff I'm willing to jump on and read the source code. 15 years engineering and dev, willing to put time in for you guys.

Is this happening now? Everything seems up and running

EDIT: absolutely perfect timing

Godspeed

Seems to have worked! Typed from Jeboa :)

No problem if you have to wait, it is the best instance. Do what you have to do.

No problema si toca esperar, es la mejor instancia. Haz lo que tengas que hacer.

Thank you so much. Im happy to be here

🤘🤞

May the force be with you. Live long and prosper.

Good luck!

0.18 gives us a feed that doesn’t auto refresh and moves the comment collapse button to its rightful place to the left of the username.

thanks for keeping us informed :)

Good luck! Thanks for all your hard work

God speed

Thanks for the heads up, and good luck!

Looking forward to the update. Jerboa for Android as available on F-Droid has 0.18 as a minimum requirement. Really wanna get that one set up for this Account.

Best of luck!

Good luck with this!

Update went good so far ;)

Seems to have worked! Typed from Jeboa :)

Is the update done? The platform isn't going too well 😅

Do logins work for anyone else?

I created a "in private" Firefox browser session. I can't seem to login through that.

looking good so far, the instance is back, testing to post!

The last few minutes the site seems to be very fast! Let's hope it stays this way!

Muuuch faster now. Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Just looked. First 1/2 loads were slow but after that it's lighting fast! I think by not everyone establishing a Websocket connection and just loading once performance should increase a tad bit.

My lemmy server is also running the same versions are you are now. I was getting timeouts with lemmy.world federation so I recompiled lemmy_server with timeout changes:

diff --git a/crates/utils/src/lib.rs b/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
index e5d07db2c..e2c592d82 100644
--- a/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ use std::time::Duration;

 pub type ConnectionId = usize;

-pub const REQWEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
+pub const REQWEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(13);

 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! location_info {
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index cc77ca48f..45c621a7c 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ use tracing_subscriber::{filter::Targets, layer::SubscriberExt, Layer, Registry}
 use url::Url;

 /// Max timeout for http requests
-pub(crate) const REQWEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
+pub(crate) const REQWEST_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(16);

 /// Placing the main function in lib.rs allows other crates to import it and embed Lemmy
 pub async fn start_lemmy_server() -> Result<(), LemmyError> {

Tried to logout, website on mobile won't release my session, and when I tried to login on jerboa it said password incorrect, not sure if that's a ui issue or a lemmy.world issue though

Good luck! I know you and the team will do the best possible work to get everything updated

Thanks and good luck!

Thank you so much for your hard work! I deeply appreciate it.

It's this why I can't login to the jerboa app?

Happy to be here. o7

Good luck!

o7

o7

Good luck

Can't wait

Page me if you need any halp

Hey man if y'all have planning meetings or anything for this stuff I'm willing to jump on and read the source code. 15 years engineering and dev, willing to put time in for you guys.

The progressive web app had ui issues after the update so I uninstalled it and now I can't figure out how to reinstall it 😕 tried wefwef but that doesn't load anything and can't log in. Happily staying patient though, hoping things smooth out!

New update sure is fire, post making process page is all cleared up!

Thanks for all the work you're doing, best of luck!

Working for me currently on connect for Lemmy.

Thanks

Super responsive, and I can login using Jerboa 37!

Best of luck! I really appreciate the transparency on here that you keep providing.

Best of luck!! “crossing fingers”

yay, instance is back! trying to post timed out two times, this is the third try.

Thank you for all of your hard work!

Here for it! This is the last chance to catch the wave of signups, if there's gonna be one.

yay, instance is back! trying to post timed out two times, this is the third try.

o7

Good luck!

Working super slow. Like 45 seconds per page load.

Thanks for the heads up! Fingers crossed indeed!

Hoping the update works well this time !

Thanks for all your hard work Ruud and team. This place is seriously shaping up well to completely replace my Reddit addiction.

What happened? Or is this not yet done? Sorry I’m kinda lost in the whole CET timings.

o7

my fingers are crossed for you, good luck. o7

Thank you for all of your hard work!

I hope it helps with the speed. It's like trudging on molasses right now, but can't complain much.

GLHF

A bit concerning perhaps hold this off for a week or so seems like this is very important moment for the users from r**dit to decide if they want to be here or not.

Thoughts and prayers! /s

Seriously though, good luck!!

Good luck!!!

o7

o7

You got this ruud.

Good luck, hope it works this time

May the git repos bless the server 🙏

Nice work with everything so far, really liking it. What all is being changed/fixed in the new revision? Is it just more efficient code to support higher site traffic?

wew. noice!

Good luck!

Hell yeah

This hasn't gone well! Fingers crossed it sorts itself out without a rollback.

Super responsive, and I can login using Jerboa 37!

Looks like DB's struggling under the load 🤔 Any chance to move DB to the separate server?

Thanks for all the work you're doing, best of luck!

It's working! Writing from jerboa.

It's working! Writing from jerboa.

I get an error message when replying to comments tho.

Thanks everyone for your hard work!

It worked this time, nice!! Feels a lot better, much more responsive.

Things look better. Thank you for the updates!

Instance got faster now, but still impossible to log in after you've cleared cookies.

Logging in doesn't work - returns 404 record not found. Resetting password does log you in though,

A lot of improvements, but some weird problems. Jerboa finally allowed me to log in but not much else. Connect is working better, but won't allow me to reply to one particular post ("incorrect language" or something). The browser version and wefwef are slow and glitchy - my comment about birds ended up in a conversation about Lemmy apps. I don't know anything about tech stuff but I get the impression that people are working very hard to fix all the issues. And the spezidus wouldn't be making things easy. Looking forward to a bigger better Lemmy!

How loaded are the servers? It would be good to see it maybe in the instance sidebar or a website

O7

entire instance proceeds to fucking obliterate itself

Srs though, hope it works well.

o7

Looking better! Let's go!

Godspeed friend haha

Good luck!

Good luck, and Godspeed.

o7

Nice work!

Was it succesfull?

I like the new layout better, just hope everything keeps working

Pages loading slowly here and sometimes not loading content. Could be due to the number of new users.

🙏

Super responsive, and I can login using Jerboa 37!

Looking awesome! faster, more responsive, new sorting types, tighter layout, no auto-load of random posts 🥳 🥳

Just need to sort out the wefwef issue, and we're back in business...

I feel like that time. On that day. Is a bad time to do something that will likely end up with people creating accounts being turned.

I feel like that time. On that day. Is a bad time to do something that will likely end up with people creating accounts being turned away.

You couldn't have picked a worse day to try something risky. There's going to be a huge flood of newcomers tomorrow, and if things aren't working, it could send them straight back to Reddit.

How this goes through this time.

Oh.... that's why it's unstable right now.

What happened? Or is this not yet done? Sorry I’m kinda lost in the whole CET timings.

How this goes through this time.

How this goes through this time.

How this goes through this time.

How this goes through this time.

What happened? Or is this not yet done? Sorry I’m kinda lost in the whole CET timings.

Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.