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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?

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[–] Ategon 6 points 2 months ago

Community table currently has issues. Should be fixed once theres time to do more database maintenance again but for now the posts can be accessed in the main feeds

[–] lysdexic 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It looks like many communities are still down following the last update.

Does anyone have any update on this issue? I'd love to continue using Lemmy but I won't be able to do so if it's unusable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ategon 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its been getting looked at and we have some more people that are being added on to help out as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you for coming back, good luck!

[–] MagicShel 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My whole feed has been hosed for a couple of weeks. I'm seeing zero posts in about half my subbed communities and scant few posts even in the ones that do get them. I'm also not seeing all the comments or votes. I assume this is being worked on, but Lemmy might as well be dead for me. I can go 9 hours without a new post anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I just had a look at https://programming.dev/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=New , everything seems to be working fine.

Comment made a minute ago on LW:

Do you have any example of a community not federating property?

[–] MagicShel 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here is [email protected] through lemmy.world.

Here it is through PD:

lemmynsfw is the same: 12 days since a post.

Here is a link of me asking in comments if I was missing something and someone confirming I was: https://programming.dev/post/20400237/12746874

It's the same on desktop so I don't think it's a phone/cache issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MagicShel 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's super aggravating. Lemmy is pretty much my only social outlet. I've had to go back to Discord.

But hey, it's free/no ads. I'll probably soon be in a position (after several months out of work) to donate, but until I do I guess I can't exactly complain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered creating an alt on https://lemmy.zip/ ? They are very reactive and their instance is solid.

You can export your settings from your current instance to the new one in your account settings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Happy to help, enjoy lemmy.zip, it's a great instance!

[–] fool 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a programming.dev-specific problem.

  • A bit of federation funkiness ([email protected]: last post is a month or so ago?)
  • and a bit of local splunkiness ([email protected] is only directly usable from other instances rn iirc)

but I believe in our volunteerist leaders. Even so...

[–] Ategon 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Been getting worked on and people have been figuring out how best to fix the issue

[–] lysdexic 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just checked the status of communities such as [email protected].

They are still fucked.

I understand not everyone can be a pro or spare time from their personal life to fix problems they barely had time to create to begin with.

But the truth of the matter is that programming.dev is proving itself to be unusable.

Just to think that not so long ago Lemmy was being portrayed as a Reddit alternative.

[–] Ategon 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was some maintenance to try to fix things but things ended up not being resolved so had to be rolled back and there should be another maintenance period in the future again

[–] SuperFola 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi there! Like many others, I’m wondering where this issue is at?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From the Matrix channel, @[email protected] has been sick for the last few days.

As mentioned elsewhere, you could consider opening an alt on Lemmy.zip

[–] SuperFola 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn’t solve communities being inaccessible though, does it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It addresses some of the federation issues some of the PD users are experiencing.

For the communities themselves, it does not fix that indeed. I hope they can fix that at some point, but it's been a month and it seems more complex than expected

[–] lysdexic 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It addresses some of the federation issues some of the PD users are experiencing.

It solves nothing, and feels like spam at this point. I mean, who do you think is not aware they can create an account somewhere else and shift their presence there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello,

As suggested elsewhere in the thread, you might consider opening an alt on Lemmy.zip, it's a stable and well managed instance.

Exporting and importing settings takes a few clicks.

[–] lysdexic 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Very proactive admins, they regularly publish this kind of reports: https://lemmy.zip/post/25516571?scrollToComments=true

Good uptime: https://status.lemmy.zip/status/lemmy

Alternative front ends

  • m.lemmy.zip - Our Mobile/Tablet site
  • old.lemmy.zip - A familiar desktop experience!
  • a.lemmy.zip - A desktop-first UI
  • t.lemmy.zip - An alternative Mobile/Tablet UI with lots of features!

High number of active users (491 per month)

Detailed federation status page: https://grafana.lemmy.zip/public-dashboards/bac0acae9cd942f88a65b1a7c94503d2?orgId=1&refresh=1m

[–] Die4Ever 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I filed a bug report for this https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5117

there's something else to the issue though, because I see other communities with underscores still working

[–] Nothing4You 3 points 2 months ago

this feels like more db index corruption that already existed for users previously, unlikely to be an issue in lemmy itself

[–] lysdexic 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This issue still persists.

Communities have been broken for over a month. This is quite bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Some discussion is happening on the Matrix chat, but indeed it's not ideal.

Have you considered Lemmy.zip as an alternative ?

https://programming.dev/comment/13142676

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I just reached out to the admins on their Matrix chat, to see if they would consider recommending people to move their communities to other instances

[–] lysdexic 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just checked the Matrix channel, no update since Friday

[–] lysdexic 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The whole site is broken for 2 months now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am well aware, I suggested you to move your community to another instance a few weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

~~All~~ Some communities that have _ in the name seem to be broken if you try to view them on programming.dev

e.g. https://programming.dev/c/learn_programming

[–] Kissaki 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How fitting for the discard operator _.

C# discards, but IIRC it is in some other languages too

[–] lysdexic 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably was closed

What do you mean "probably was closed"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought it had been closed by the mods or admins.

Seems like it's a different type of issues

[–] lysdexic 1 points 2 months ago

I thought it had been closed by the mods or admins.

I'm the mod and the guy who created the community, so I dare say that was not the case.