Over the past 48 hours I have been glued to my screen trying to figure out how to make Beehaw more robust during this Reddit exodus.
My eyes are burning but I am thankful for so much financial support as well as the work of two sysadmins that have given us all a breath of fresh air.
One of the sysadmins was up until 2:30 am helping us out as a volunteer. I am so very grateful for persons such as this.
Thank you all for your continued support and patience.
Rest up! I worry about what this place will look like on July 1st, when Reddit shuts off API access entirely.
You guys are amazing and are building something great here. Thank you for all you’re doing. Where can I make a donation?
you can do that here
Done!
Done!
Thank you!
Thanks Beehaw admins & mods & sysadmins. Even before this week it felt like such a welcoming community with good principles. Beehaw made me want to try Lemmy again. And it’s been fun. We appreciate you.
Get ready to call on more help with scaling, because if Reddit shuts down their API in July looking back this week may seem like a small event in comparison.
Really appreciate the hard work.
I think you’ve built a great community here, and the hard work isn’t going unnoticed. Thanks all!
Echoing other comments in saying thanks for all your (collectively) hard work! I’m one of the new joiners, and grateful for the welcoming vibe here even despite the scramble we’re causing.
Thank you for all your hard work and for being so welcoming even though we are causing you problems!
I gotta say, it’s so nice to think this place is run by people and not by megamaniacal megacorp data miners out to exploit everyone.
Yes I join in thanks… And funding!
Where are the bottlenecks? Frontend servers or on the db? I have a lot of experience running postgres at scale.
I had a first look last night and my preliminary findings are that the DB is actually fine, but the frontend (server.js from Lemmy-ui) and the Pict-rs service are the culprits.
Pictrs doesn’t have lots of configuration options and often calls on exiftool to to… whatever. Pictrs also seems to have to deal with a few large pictures, so we reduced the upload size.
Sadly the error users get is some JSON parse error, so this doesn’t really tell them the issue and they might try to upload again.
Found a few things which we might want to open a bug report for, but we first have to set up a test server to check my suspicions.
Thanks for sticking around during this influx and working your sysass off to improve the performance.
Sleep is definitely well earned especially for the sysad who stayed so late.
Thank you all for the work you’ve put in to keep things up and running! I can’t imagine how many fires can pop up when a user base quadruples nearly overnight. Massive kudos to everyone that puts effort in to keep this place going. Go get that well deserved rest.
As a newbie, I am so grateful for your time, effort, and expertise. I can already tell this place is so cool - thank you!!!
It seems to be working a lot better now than it was earlier today, so I’d say you and your sysadmins did a great job. Thank you!
We appreciate you and everyone involved!
Seriously thank you for all of this as a convert. I left digg for reddit when it went to shit and now I’ve left reddit for lemmy and mastodon. Happy to be in these communities
