Good morning,
Some of you may have experienced a small hiccup this morning (eastern time). I went ahead and upgraded our lemmy instance to 0.17.4. I also took this opportunity to make some small adjustments to the instance that required a restart of services. These changes were mainly related to increasing Federation worker count in hopes to decrease synchronization times with other instances. A small fix to help slow down the storage growth was also applied (limiting log sizes that get generated).
Everything should be back up now. In the future my goal is to be more transparent with scheduling downtime.
edit: updated link
Thanks for your amazing work !
Good sh.it
We should all adopt this when posting! LOL
Cat pics arent loading fast enough…
Please post donation link so we can upgrade the server!
Thanks for your hard work!
Thanks for your effort. I really have to say the performance here is very good compared to other instances (tried two others before I landed here). Shit just works.
Thanks for your hard work! It’s greatly appreciated.
Thank you! Can you confirm that we are having federation issues? I cannot seem to locate magazines on other instances. I just wanted to make sure its not just me doing something wrong.
As I understand it, part of the issue on kbin is that the default federation threads value is too low for large sized instances.
I gather this will improve over time.
Keep up the good work eh!
Are you sure that’s the right link for the version? That changelog only goes to 0.17.2, 4 months ago. Wanted to see what changed.
You are right, wrong link! I just updated it. Thanks for the heads up
Thanks! Ah, so this is just a DB optimization patch. From the sounds of that changelog, all the big stuff is coming down the pipe in the next version. Presumably that’s when they’re finally turning off WebSockets.
I believe the devs were saying that they were moving away from websockets in v0.18.0 which is scheduled to come out in a few weeks
Can confirm talked to some of the UI devs that’s a main focus right now
Security fixes - happy to see it applied quickly.
The security fixes were documented prior and manually applied on our old instance as well. This patch was to get the performance gains and align with the latest release!
Serious question: Is there a way to get the interface to dynamically expand to the width of the browser window? The narrow columns are giving me a twitch in my right eye.
Yes, there’s a greasemonkey script you can setup to change the formatting. Details here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53395?scrollToComments=true
Works as advertised. 10/10
Sweet. Thanks fren.
I built a style for lemmy that makes multiple changes in the UI. It requires an add on called Stylus, which is well worth it for a ton of other websites as well
jolly good show ol chap! Great server!
Great! Always nice to get new updates
thanks for the hard work
Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I’m not sure what “Federation worker count” is, but I also don’t know where to look to find the answer.
Not everything is documented but here is a link to the official lemmy documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html
