Lemmy has been feeling pretty empty the past couple of days. That just really goes to show how important federation really is.
PSA: the federation problem is still present in Lemmy 19.1, the GitHub issue has been reopened
Submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4288
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Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I noticed that as well, thought maybe things were just slowing down, but it’s good to know it was the software and not a sudden drop in community involvement.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yes and no, if you have enough users you do not need federation for a server to not feel empty. But overall many servers do not have that many users, so federation with larger ones is essential.
rtxn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like something a cardassian would say.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It took me a second to realize what cardassians you were talking about.
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Man, the one thing not to break. They broke it.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
for the most part federation works just fine. there are occasional issues, yes, but it’s not like it can’t federate at all.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I would comment on this but since federation is broken…this won’t be seen until the instance admin restarts Lemmy and federation works once again.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 10 months ago
Federation seems to be working fine from where I stand?
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I think it works for a while after restart of the server, and then stops working. Yesterday I was making comments that didn’t federate until 12 hours later when I assume the instance admin restarted the server.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 10 months ago
A while ago, programming.dev had a problem where nothing from the instance federated for a week. Lemmy felt so empty
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Am I little naive in wondering how this isn’t caught in unit, integration and E2E tests?
kattenluik@feddit.nl 10 months ago
The main Lemmy developers very often don’t have the biggest clue of what they’re doing, and they’ve proven that time and time again.
They also don’t know how to interact with the community or how to be normal people.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Dude, lemmy is awesome, give them a break.
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
😂😂 I got downvoted for that. I guess people dislike writing tests.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 10 months ago
I’m going to set up a cronjob to restart the Lemmy docker container every 6 hours. That seems to be around when stuff stops working usually.
aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
oof
willya@lemmyf.uk 10 months ago
Sheesh.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Btw: 0.19.1, leading zero. It’s not yet at 1.0 for a reason.
Blaze@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Added the 0
Aurix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I am not sure what you imply. Like Early Access it might be a descriptive factor, but it matters very little. Some use that label for finished products with full support adding new features, while others use it as a means they skipped quality control entirely or are prototyping heavily. In the end it still is a paid for software. In Lemmy’s case it is the first with its own financ model. It is highly usable and hopefully this bug sees the improvement in testing to avoid.
LibreOffice has a much higher version number, but as my small rant post on it, if I was responsible for QA I wouldn’t have let it release at all in the current state and am baffled what goes on internally to cause that.
joe_archer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This guy does not semantic version.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m implying that the headline of the submission is wrong and the leading zero is not decorative.