• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    15 hours ago

    I just gotta say, this is the coolest part of the feddiverse by far.

    Problem: I don’t want to stop doom scrolling.

    Solution : Doom scroll on another instance!

    • Microw@lemm.ee
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      10 hours ago

      Some apps have “guest accounts” that you can use to lurk while upgrade downtime on your instance

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      in my whole (last I checked) 8 months on Lemmy I’ve never had to move instances because of downtime, even temporarily 🤷‍♀️

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        My instance had a few hiccups after it was started, but they were resolved quickly enough.

        But it’s disingenuous to pretend that an instance going down is something the fediverse is immune to. If we had account portability or something similar, then maybe.

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      17 hours ago

      Meh, you can always browse another instance or pick a new instance to register at as a backup.

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    16 hours ago

    I’m just happy they exist. Thanks admin team. Yeah it’s better for the long run if we haveany instances, but it’s very nice they have this service for free. Lemmy world is cool.

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    18 hours ago

    It’s always a good idea having multiple accounts. Not for smurphing, but honestly just for having a backup option if there’s performance or connectivity problems.

    Every once in a while I recommend backing up your subscribed communities and importing it into your secondary account as well, just in case.

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    16 hours ago

    It’s nice that so many clients offer a guest account so I can at least lurk when my instance is down

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukM
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    18 hours ago

    World users will finally have access to things the rest of us have grown accustomed to (like I don’t think world has alt text support). Also, one hour downtime is mighty ambitious (esp with the controversial rank recalculations), must have some mighty server hardware.

  • It is kinda weird that they have to take the entire site down at once to do maintenance. It still is spread across multiple servers, so why couldn’t it be rolled out in a way that only the smallest possible fraction is down at a time?

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      17 hours ago

      The Lemmy docs do go cover a bit on rolling releases, but it’s not recommended for large jumps or any upgrade that involves a database migration

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      with db migrations the database structure changes. it’s not possible to do db schema migrations without downtime unless the application has been built with that in mind and the application is able to run with a partially upgraded schema.

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      17 hours ago

      Maybe they don’t want to complicate things trying to go with 0 downtime? Even though depending on how proper their infra is that might not be that hard.