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Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

#101

Post by elihu » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

gnulinux wrote: post #90

speg wrote: post #21

I’m getting frustrated with Lemmy. I’ve tried to reply to a post this morning and the submit button just spins. No error, nothing. This is a bad bug, but there are plenty other small things. Like why is “Join Lemmy” link still displayed when I’m logged in? Feels like unbaked software to me. That’s on top of all the multiple federated instances you need to wrap your head around. I’m not sure this can compete :(

The reality in 2023 is all software is unbaked software. All software is buggy, frustrating, and almost-broken to the point of almost-unusable. There is simply nothing else, and we all navigate through this dystopic universe by finding software that are tolerably frustrating for each of us. The threshold is different for everyone. Reddit is buggy as hell and experiences downtime most weeks. I'm sure Lemmy has bugs to…

I think the important thing is the trajectory. Is it getting better over time, or worse? It seems like a lot of software eventually hits a peak and starts a long, slow decline -- especially internet services and social media platforms.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

#102

Post by BashiBazouk » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 8:35 PM UTC

garrettjoecox wrote: post #15

A bit off topic, but why does it seem like not a single page on this site uses caching of any sort? Every time it’s brought up and I click into it I’m met with minute(s) long loading screens. Surely they aren’t pulling all of these stats from every node every single page load right?

Odd. I think it might be something else. I've been lurking Lemmy as I decide what to do about reddit and have not noticed any unusual loading times. The page linked to above takes two seconds to load (the spinny things stop turning and the data is given) for me. Literally, a 1-1000, 2-1000 and it's up...

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

#103

Post by shagie » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 9:33 PM UTC

littlestymaar wrote: post #100

balder1991 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just some more info, they were working on Lemmy full time. Source: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_a...

Yeah, the two of them …

Its a matter of setting the expectation of involvement.

This isn't two people working on it on the weekend as a hobby project that got too much attention during an unforeseen event.

Rather, it is two people who worked on it as a full time job (no other sources of income) from grants for three years (with funding running out this year).

For a rough estimate, one would expect about 10,000 hours have been put into the project (2 people, 2000 hours a year, 2.5 years).

It is less of a hobby project than Minecraft was in 2012.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

#104

Post by user_named » Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 2:38 AM UTC

taywrobel wrote: post #32

garrettjoecox wrote: post #15

A bit off topic, but why does it seem like not a single page on this site uses caching of any sort? Every time it’s brought up and I click into it I’m met with minute(s) long loading screens. Surely they aren’t pulling all of these stats from every node every single page load right?

I don’t think this is off topic, because this is a common theme across all of Lemmy. Not necessarily no caching, but abysmal performance across the board. As much as I want the project to succeed it’s unusable currently, and with more Reddit communities coming back from the blackout, their opportunity to claim the user base in the long run is already passed. The stats over the last month are impressive (if you can ge…

I just get a spinner when I try to login to lemmy but browsing works.