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. Since admins became aware of the bug and began restarting their servers as an ad-hoc fix, I've been seeing way more engagement on my instance.

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[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, the one thing not to break. They broke it.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 4 points 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.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 25 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Does my comment reach anyone?

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I’m seeing it on lemmy.ml.

I suspect the bug isn’t absolute, but inconsistent instead.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

World here.

[–] worldsayshi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] juja@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Hello World

[–] toroknos_07@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Sh.itjust.works here

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 10 months ago

Yep.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

Feddit.uk present

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I see it on kbin.social.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

feddit.it present!

[–] rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

🦈

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

No.

[–] shrugal@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

What comment?

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Federation seems to be working fine from where I stand?

Edit:

Edit 2:

Even the edit federated out to your instance fine...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My instance has been uo for over 3 days since 0.19.1 update with no issues - very little load though

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah it seems to work for some instances with 0.19.1 but Lemmy.today has issues and feddit.de as well, just from what I've heard. Probably plenty more.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 13 points 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 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Am I little naive in wondering how this isn't caught in unit, integration and E2E tests?

Edit: looks more involved than that, but it forced me to dig into how some of the components are tested. Educational.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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. A lot of times they forget normal web practices and rules, and a lot of side things like Jerboa are also just broken.

They also don't know how to interact with the community or how to be normal people. Let's not forget they have been working on Lemmy full-time and this is the state we've come to, ignoring all the database and security and everything else issues they already had.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude, lemmy is awesome, give them a break.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy IS awesome, that doesn't mean we can't want it to be better or criticize it. No one said Lemmy isn't great.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

The main Lemmy developers very often don't have the biggest clue of what they're doing

this doesn't sound constructive criticism to me.

that commenter has something personal against the devs. Lemmy is far from perfect but it's functional and improving everyday.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, but there are constructive ways to do it and what that guy did.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

😂😂 I got downvoted for that. I guess people dislike writing tests.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love writing tests, It's all the shit that comes after that that sucks.

Those first few pushes that all come up green feel like magic. That first red that points out something you missed, you go back and make a quick change and it's now green and it's the best thing you've ever seen.

It's sooner or later, you throw a couple big red bois on a production build that don't make any sense. You start digging through the code of some guy that only writes comments in haiku and has the impression he gets paid by the number of layers deep he can nest a ternary.

Sooner or later you figure out it's just an edge case there's nothing actually wrong. You'll need to refactor one of the systems but you still have production to push to fix a critical bug, so you hotwire the test and write it off as P1 tech debt.

Eventually, you end up with unit tests that aren't P1 and they fail. If you're understaffed, or overscoped, sooner or later you just have a bunch of half-assed zombie test sitting around. Unless you can convince production to let you go back and clear up your tech debt it's just a unit test graveyard. It still has the big bumpers in place so something serious can't fail. But you never seem to be able to get back to make everything bright new and shiny again.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wish more developers would do QA. After working with QA my code improved so much because I was proactively thinking about how things might break or potential issues that I never would have thought of.

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 10 points 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.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 10 points 10 months ago

Sheesh.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

oof

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yup, absolutely nothing I posted from lemm.ee yesterday made it out into the wider world. In fact I'll probably have to manually federate this comment too.

Hopefully they can get to the bottom of it. Maybe next year we need a rule about releasing anything in December when everyone's too busy to bugfix 😅

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Curious: what do you mean by "manually federating" a comment?

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My other account is on .world so I can use search to forcibly pull things onto at least that server (search for the original URL of the unfederated post or comment and then wait a few seconds). Sometimes doing that will also encourage whatever it was to federate more widely to more servers, but that doesn't seem to be happening as reliably either since the upgrade 🤷‍♀️

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

A restart of Lemmy seems to fix it temporarily according to admin of Lemmy.today.

But it's inconsistent and stops working after a while it seems.

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