Thanks for the support! One thing wouldn’t be so bad but I have another dozen I run on a home server, and I’ve been making some big changes so trying to tidy up that first (especially so I can free up the space for cloning Lemmy’s 300GB+ of data to do a test run). I’d hoping that work will be complete soon so I can create the lemmy test instance and try out some changes plus test the lemmy upgrade.
I’m going to try to work out the setup running multiple front end Lemmy containers because it’s super annoying when it freezes up. People shouldn’t have to switch frontends just to use Lemmy!
Things have come a long way in the 18 months+ since I started this instance. The default UI may freeze occasionally but back at the beginning there was a cron job to restart it each night so it didn’t run out of RAM (IIRC, Lemmy.world had to restart every 30 mins). It has come a long way.
Plus now there are tools like the one to check federation is working, the automod, the batching tool that helps us keep up to date with the Lemmy.world flood of federation, and more.
Yeah I find it painful to use other sites without ad blockers. Often with ad blockers it’s still hard. The feed is often half ads or content you aren’t following. It’s quite refreshing to have a feed that is what it says it is.
Thanks for the support! One thing wouldn’t be so bad but I have another dozen I run on a home server, and I’ve been making some big changes so trying to tidy up that first (especially so I can free up the space for cloning Lemmy’s 300GB+ of data to do a test run). I’d hoping that work will be complete soon so I can create the lemmy test instance and try out some changes plus test the lemmy upgrade.
Just had the freeze problem and the alternative back end works fine. So, thanks for the tip!
I’m going to try to work out the setup running multiple front end Lemmy containers because it’s super annoying when it freezes up. People shouldn’t have to switch frontends just to use Lemmy!
Silver lining is I like this front end better (The old.lemmy one).
Oh nice! Yeah that can be pretty nostalgic.
Unfortunately I always get stuck with mod/admin activities on the alternative frontends so end up back on the default one.
Fingers crossed that one day a lemmy mod/admin will write a client for you.
I really like info-dense screens.
Things have come a long way in the 18 months+ since I started this instance. The default UI may freeze occasionally but back at the beginning there was a cron job to restart it each night so it didn’t run out of RAM (IIRC, Lemmy.world had to restart every 30 mins). It has come a long way.
Plus now there are tools like the one to check federation is working, the automod, the batching tool that helps us keep up to date with the Lemmy.world flood of federation, and more.
If you like data, you could check out: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=lemmy.nz
You can play with the settings, that’s set to Lemmy.world to Lemmy.nz federation. Or visit https://grafana.lem.rocks/ to see the different dashboards.
Edit: I’m wondering now if you meant the compacted post view of old.lemmy.nz but hey now you have some info screens of federation data 😀
Yeah I did just mean the compacted view but those grafana pages are fascinating so it worked out well for me.😃 Thanks!
We are so lucky to have the fediverse. I’m still blown away by how much better it is than overtly commercial algorithm-driven web 2.0 stuff.
Yeah I find it painful to use other sites without ad blockers. Often with ad blockers it’s still hard. The feed is often half ads or content you aren’t following. It’s quite refreshing to have a feed that is what it says it is.