PSA from Admin Team: The update completed roughly two hours ago. Since that time, the Admin team (and other site admins) have been working on the noted performance issues. We believe we have found a solution, but we still need time to test this out. You may still see brief outages and differences in performance as we are testing different configurations. We are trying to prevent rolling back.

While I know this can be frustrating - especially today - please keep in mind we have a team of volunteer techies (from around the globe!) collaborating on this issue. It is an inspiring situation. Also keep in mind that lemmy.world is quite a bit larger (and more active than any other instance). As such, we are a bit of a ‘test instance’ in regards to high volume requests. This is just part of the growing pain. We appreciate your understanding.

@ruud@lemmy.world will provide a debrief once we have completed testing.

Server feels a lot better now than it did an hour ago. Comments are going through quickly and upvotes are working for me.

Heyo! Small update from someone who is watching the upgrade live; it's ongoing still. Seems like they are still facing some performance issues. So grab your popcorn and wait! 🍿 (Btw, i am not a sysadmin, just a moderator)

Performance is extremely uneven. Sometimes loads instantly, sometimes I get a timeout. Upvotes don't show up until reload. Still a lot better than the last attempt.

The server hamsters seem to be on fire, but I won't hold it against the service/community/individuals (except spez; fuck you spez). Lemmy is in the unfortunate position of being forced into a development model called "fuck it, we'll do it live!"

edit: commenting and editing seems to be fine.

And… we’re back!

TFW you run a small server with an open source social platform for shits any giggles and one month it explodes a thousandfold because of one greedy pig boy.

Nice work with everything so far, really liking it. What all is being changed/fixed in the new revision? Is it just more efficient code to support higher site traffic?

I can't login on my lemmy.world account, neither on Jerboa nor in the browser, I'm getting "Incorrect login" :(

(I'm posting from Liftoff because I was already logged in)

Good luck! Posted 19:59 CET.

Seems to have worked! Typed from Jeboa :)

Looks like it works, but it's very slow - 25 seconds to load the page. https://i.imgur.com/ghiofDC.png

Cleared my cache and cookies as I thought it would be necessary like last time, but now I can't log in. The login button just turns into the animated wheel and then nothing happens. I'm typing this on a mobile where I still have an active session.

Seems I can't upvote

Edit. I can upvote, but with a lot of delay!

looking good so far, the instance is back, testing to post!

Is the update done? I hope not because can't i upvote😅

Just a heads-up. I ended up having to create a new login at lemm.ee because even after the improvements in speed and so on with the upgrade, for all intents and purposes it looks like my account here may have been wiped. Can't login from anywhere, getting "Record not found" whenever I try to sign in on Connect, "incorrect login" from Jerboa, and a spinning button and then nothing on a PC browser, basically treating my account as if it doesn't exist. Some folks appear to be able to login though. Is this an ongoing server issue, or did my account actually get wiped? Same username (Grangle1) as on lemm.ee.

Posting and seems fine from Jerboa, can't log in using wefwef.

Server has sped up significantly. Things are getting faster / better.

Maybe 0.18.1-RC4 will stick? Lets hope!

Godspeed you absolute madlads.

Good luck.

Wow, this is much faster now that caches are built.

Can't you disable the post button within the upgrade progress? It's a shame to see posts to disappear due to it.

You know, maybe I'm being overly dramatic, but I really feel like we're at the beginning of something special. I realize that Lemmy has existed for some years, but the whole Reddit thing is really pushing it into the limelight, and it's new to me (I joined just before the blackout).

Seeing all the developers and admins dealing with the inevitable bugs, working together to keep the federated instances operating together during a huge surge in users, like a flotilla of disparate ships lashed together facing a major storm - it makes me excited, nervous, and hopeful. I fully intend to support developers and instances financially, but also want to give a big "yay team" shout-out.

Feels very sluggish for me

Looking forward to it. The lag has been brutal.

Looks like the update is showing, but it's been slow since. Hopefully not permanent. Also having issues upvoting.

Slow, but working.

I don't know if we're slow because of the upgrade, or because of the July rush from Reddit losing 3rd party API access.

This is like that scene in a sci-fi movie where they're trying to repair the shop mid-battle. Good luck!