Comment on Slrpnk.net outage
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
This is making me want to create an alt on slrpnk.net , since you’re so chill and communicative about issues.
You’re very welcome! Kris@feddit.org / @poVoq@slrpnk.net is an incredible admin, and up until now has declined donations, funding the entire instance several years now from his own pocket.
This current downtime is the exception that proves the rule. I hope he’s not stressing out too much. We’ll all be ready to jump right back into it when he gets back.
Already thinking about how to make the best of it 🤷 Maybe we can use this opportunity to try and migrate to Piefed? I had this in the back of my mind for a time already and Rimu seems optimistic that it is possible.
That’d actually be pretty rad if it’s doable, especially now that the API for piefed was released and mobile apps are already beginning to support it.
That would be so nice if we could move to Piefed.
Wouldn’t that mean the instance would completely restart? I mean I don’t know much about piefed but logically it seems like the DB structure would be incompatible.
Not necessarily, no. We aim to preserve users, communities and posts/comments. Image uploads might get lost though.
Such an in-place migration will need extensive database operations and likely some support by the Piefed developer (to add support for bcrypt hashed passwords), but we are hopeful to make it happen and maybe this will result in a database migration script other Lemmy instances could also use.
If this turns out to be infeasible, we will stay with Lemmy rather than reset everything.
What do you like more about Piefed compared to Lemmy?
Lemmy has a lot of individual parts that don’t interact very well with each other, especially the image host part. Futhermore the main UI is quite a mess and we were thinking of switching to an alternative already, but this would further increase the “too many moving parts” issue. Piefed on the otherhand has an integrated and very lightweight UI, which also has some nice additional filtering and moderation features Lemmy currently lacks.
And I personally feel more at home with the Python codebase, as it allows better troubleshooting and more standartized (Flask) tooling. The Rust codebase of Lemmy has a lot of obscure custom stuff and the error messages are extremely obstruse from a sysadmin perspective.
And looking at the performance metrics of Lemmy, the main limiting factor seems to be the Postgres database anyways, so the theoretically slower Python codebase of Piefed should not have much impact.
He’s pretty awesome. He has a monthly thread with updates and actually responds to you too.
Yeah! It’s definitely worth adding to my list of migration contenders now that lemm.ee is closing and I have to jump ship
Yeah me too, I’d wanted to for a while but never got around to it. Now I probably never will (unless they get the servers back up at some point in the future).
it seems they will, just not too soon
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Aren’t most admins this way?
*glances at your instance*
Ah…
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Lol. Yeah, sdf.org feels pretty hands-off. They have longevity going for them–I’ve had an sdf account of some sort since 2009 at the latest. The system has been around since the 80s. The name comes from the anime “Super Dimension Fortress”, which I’ve never seen.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Given that the single admin @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org hasn’t been active in two years, yeah, I’d say that counts as “pretty hands-off”. The SDF organization as a whole will probably be around for decades to come, but they don’t seem to care that much about their Lemmy instance.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have stepped in when a lot of people complained, it took their whole instance complaining to do so while a Nazi troll spammed hate across the local feed.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I miss BBS.
julian@community.nodebb.org 3 weeks ago
you can still have it with NodeBB!