Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else?
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days agoI made a donation once, with the idea of making one every year, because I believe in paying for the things I use, and particularly small-time, old-style services like SDF.
But the plain and sad reality is, most of the things I DON’T pay for work much better than SDF services.
So yes, it truly was money poorly spent. It wasn’t much money and it didn’t make a dent in my quality of life in any way, but that’s just what it was - money poorly spent.
My one donation will remain a single donation until SDF services improve to the point when I can reasonably myself that the occasional slowness and downtime are reasonable for a small gig like SDF. Sadly, it’s not even up to that standard and has never been in the 2 years I’ve joined: it’s more slowness and downtime than it is working normally.
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
Small instances probably aren’t for you. If that was my main concern, I’d stick to major servers with more than just a couple people running it.
Personally I’m here for the atmosphere. Feels like the old internet. And as someone who has been around for the entirety of the internet; sometimes shit doesn’t work and you have to go do something else for a while.
Monthly recurring donation here. No ragrets.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
I’m sorry but… no.
Look, I’m a child of the 70’s, I know what shite internet feels like and I’m a patient man. Hell, half of the reason why I stick to SDF is exactly because I’m patient (the other half being because SDF defederates almost no other instances and I appreciate that).
But I’m running a BBS with 32 lines and quite a few users (yes, old-stylee, with modems) and also a few Echolink repeaters for hams, and I provide better service and better uptime than SDF most of the time. And it’s just me, myself and I with little time to spare after work.
I’m glad you’re satisfied with SDF. My bar is a bit higher than yours apparently, yet goodness knows I’m not demanding…