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Programming.Dev is going to be going down starting at around 00:01 UTC Monday Dec 2 to attempt to fix the database corruption that happened relating to communities.

This has been affecting attempting to look at the pages for certain communities (it would end up loading forever instead of actually showing the posts for the community) and was affecting federation in some cases.

This is the second attempt to fix the issues with the first one needing to be rollbacked from due to the fix not working.

This fix could take several hours, so the outage window is going to be from 00:01 - 06:00 Dec 2.

The last post that was federated to LW is from three days ago, and I can't see the community at all via https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21031156

Slightly triggered by the post My blog now has Lemmy comments, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at another great representative of the Fediverse world: Lemmy. Of course, also with an eye on the possibility of developing another Mentions United Provider Plugin, along the lines of what “Coship” can do, I also can do and that for everyone ;) ...

Posting here also, because [email protected] commented that the API should work as expected on lemm.ee for instance and I don't know where is the right place to post my question. Can someone help?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/20954226

I try to get comment data for my posts via API from my Lemmy instance, but whatever I try on using the GetComments endpoint it delivers an empty array.

For example ... GET https://programming.dev/api/v3/comment/list?post_id=20878811 leads to:

{
  "comments": []
}

I want to ask here, before creating an issue. Has someone a hint?

Looks like all of the alternate theme subdomains are down. I'm assuming this is due to the maintenance but wanted to point it out just in case.

https://t.programming.dev/

https://p.programming.dev/

https://a.programming.dev/

https://old.programming.dev/

https://v.programming.dev/

I tried accessing https://programming.dev/c/programming_languages but it tells me that the community can not be found. Is that a lemmy bug?

When I click on it, all is I see is this 3 dots going 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3,... I can get into other Communities fine.

Ever since the database maintenance two Weiss so, I’ve seen far less content in my home feed. I decided to dig a bit today and found that I’m just not seeing content from certain subscribed communities such as [email protected]. Turns out the most recent content from there is 15 days old. That lines up perfectly with the db maintenance.

Sooo. Are there any known issues since then? Maybe something with federation?

My bytes.programming.dev's main feed is erroring again. It looks like everything else is loading fine, I just can't see anything on the timeline for some reason. Is it the same DB issue that was happening last time?

EDIT: I just checked and it seems like it's back

Since the last update, it's not possible to get the [email protected] community page to even load. Can anyone take a look at the problem?

I've been coming across a lot more 0-score posts in New in the past few days. Weird thing is, most of them have a (sometimes significantly) higher score when I look at them from my lemmy.world account:

Could this be a federation issue? Has anyone noticed the same thing recently?

I signed in this morning and checked my profile to find I'm not actually here. Did anyone else accidentally stop existing overnight?

We recently did an update to 0.19.5

Along with this came a bug that makes hidden communities not function properly so that they will still appear in the all feed

I have reported this on the lemmy repo and once the devs fix that bug our all feeds should go back to normal (but for now content such as politics and bot communities may appear for a bit)

Heres the bug report if anyones interested in that https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5074

We are going to be upgrading to 0.19.5 at 3:00 UTC on Thursday Oct 3 (10 minutes from now).

Downtime is expected to be about an hour. Hopefully it is not more.

We have over a period of time gotten repeated reports of unmarked NSFW posts in certain communities. All of these communities share the same singular mod, who have shown indifference when content has been reported. As leaving NSFW posts unmarked is against our instance rules, we have moved to set the rule-breaking communities to hidden.

Those of you who subscribe to hidden communities will continue to see them as normal, for everyone else these communities will look empty and hidden from c/all.

The newly hidden communities are:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that programming.dev's policy is to by default hide political communities, pornographic communities and communities hosting bot spam. Users seeking such content can subscribe to hidden communities so see them as normal.

Just recently we also went ahead and hid communities from lemmygrad due to the politics clause.

As always we encourage our local users to report content that break our instance rules. All content you report are seen by the admin team and helps inform the team of what's going on across the fediverse.

Not really sure if there is a better place to put this, but is bytes.programming.dev having issues for anyone else? I can log in but my timeline doesn't load at all.

Hi all, I have a blog and I wanted to start sharing it on lemmy, but I am wondering, should I post the entire content of the blog post when I post it?

For context, my blog is ad-free, so I'm not concerned about missing out on ad revenue.

But my blog posts are longer than average, so it may be quite long to post them here. Moreover, the blog post may have graphics or mermaid diagrams that are not easily copy able. Is it a good practice to share the full text in the lemmy post despite this, or should I only share the URL?

Not sure exactly how long this has been happening, but it's been bugging me for the last week at least.

Running Firefox 129.0 (64-bit) on Linux Mint, it seems like the login session is just constantly expiring. Every time I boot up my machine the first time I open programming.dev I have to sign in again. Closing all programming.dev tabs and navigating back to programming.dev without closing Firefox seems to always preserve the session and not require a new sign-in.

~~Closing all Firefox windows then opening Firefox and navigationg to programming.dev is a semi-reliable way to reproduce, about 75% of the time it requires a new sign-in even when I'd signed in less then a minute ago before closing the window.~~ Further testing shortly before submitting this post and those steps no longer reproduce the issue, I'm signed in even after closing the window. Maybe it's a recurring transient issue with login service?

Potentially relevant add-ons are UBlock Origin (0 blocks, shouldn't be an issue) and Privacy Badger (also 0 trackers blocked). I'm connected through VPN, but the issue seems to appear regardless of whether I stay on the same VPN server or switch servers. Firefox reports Content-Security-Policy issues but these seem unrelated and also appear when the session is successfully preserved.

Possibly helpful, occasionally when I open programming.dev I'll see it's signed out then automatically signs in after a second or so; this might have been a known Lemmy issue at some point with delayed authentication as a (now insufficient) solution. A good chance that's a dead-end, might be worth checking anyway.

Edit: It's worth noting that I'm also signed in via the android Jerboa app on another device and don't get signed out there. This could definitely be relevant if it turns out the Jerboa session somehow interferes with the Firefox session.

Hi. I’d like to inform P.D admins that Lemmy Federate integration is not working for P.D because Fediseer preferences.

P.D is using “don’t follow censured instances” option in Lemmy Federate while blocking 3rd parties on Fediseer. So Lemmy Federate can’t fetch P.D’s censure list.

So please either:

• Disable Fediseer usage in Lemmy Federate
• Grant access of censure list to 3rd parties in Fediseer

Hi, I am getting Invalid SSL Certificate (Error 526) from Cloudflare on alternate frontends. Voyager seems to be working fine though.

The title says it all. Not even sure if it's going to keep me logged in long enough to submit this post.

So, I think the admins are doing a great job and wanted to donate, however it only seems to be possible to donate via Github (snowe's account). Saying Microsoft isn't my favorite company would be putting it lightly, so going through them to donate is... not happening.

Is there any other way to donate? I'd even do bitcoin or monero if so requested (crypto market is having meltdown right now, so it's cheaper than usual 🤑 ).

I like browsing Local here because of that.