Is lemmy slow for anyone else?
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A few Lemmy.world users have been complaining that the website is slow for them, what is your experience? - Divisions by zero
Most recent examples, seems like Americans users are mostly impacted. > the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t. https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438 [https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438] Additional example > It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried. > Is lemm.ee [http://lemm.ee] much faster than lemmy.world for you? > Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference. https://lemm.ee/post/53056454/17657107 [https://lemm.ee/post/53056454/17657107] 3rd comment below > So slow unfortunately https://lemmy.world/comment/14661546 [https://lemmy.world/comment/14661546] > Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so… Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt. https://lemmy.world/comment/14676091 [https://lemmy.world/comment/14676091] > Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos https://lemmy.world/comment/14676052 [https://lemmy.world/comment/14676052] Note: if this post seems familiar, it’s because it was originally posted on [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy] . It has since then been removed as a “support question”. Not sure why asking people if they’ve been impacted about the instance that hosts 30% of the whole Lemmy userbase is a support question, but I’ll revisit that tomorrow.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Wow, you weren't lying about them "running a very old Lemmy version." For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
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Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it's taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it's just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
I rarely see any performance issues. Maybe once a month or so the main page won’t load for a couple hours.
I comment and browse a lot, but not obsessively so. I can’t say I’ve ever had an issue with performance with .world
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Wow, you weren't lying about them "running a very old Lemmy version." For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 6+ months since the last update.
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They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 6+ months since the last update.
I use Summit as well, it's great. It's not FOSS however.
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or both.
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They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 6+ months since the last update.
I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you're told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you're going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it's just vulnerable. But yeah, I've been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn't notice right away, so lots of instances had applied the broken update...
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You are on the biggest instance using software that passes your comment to every other instance that is federated with yours. I'm surprised it doesn't take longer than that most of the time.
To be fair, the federation happens in the background after the posting is done. So just posting alone only depends on the capabilities of the instance you're on.
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Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it's taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it's just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
[Solved] Is Lemmy.world getting slow or is just my connection? [Update] Is better now - Lemmy.World
[Update] Was just a pick [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32094371-22c7-4fc3-94de-80d89d67ee82.jpeg] https://www.lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world [https://www.lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world]
(lemmy.world)
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Lemmy is cheap compared to Mastodon though. You can probably fit a multi-user instance on the free tier of any hosting provider, provided you sweep media
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They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 6+ months since the last update.
Building apps is hard. I figured out we could instead steal the work Reddit has done and have been working on turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client. I know many of you don't like it but hey, this might be a selling point during the next exodus
