Two week (well 17 days) update!
Two week (well 17 days) update!
Hey all,
It's been slightly over two weeks since lemmyrs started. It's been pretty fun watching the community grow!
Some instance stats for you:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 97M 1.7M 96M 2% /run
/dev/vda1 24G 15G 7.1G 68% /
tmpfs 485M 0 485M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 97M 4.0K 97M 1% /run/user/1002
$ free -mh
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 969Mi 445Mi 77Mi 134Mi 445Mi 240Mi
Swap: 2.3Gi 571Mi 1.8Gi
lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user;
count
-------
294
(1 row)
We're cutting it pretty close in terms of RAM and Disk usage, the user growth rate has mostly flat-lined though once r/rust came back online so I'm not too concerned. When (If) it's time I'll likely bump up the Vultr instance plan to something which will continue to serve us for the foreseeable future.
Previous relevant posts:
I think it's likely to spike again when the api goes dark. I haven't been back there, is any consensus forming regarding whether people will use /r/rust, !rust@lemmyrs.org, or !rust@programming.dev going forward?
Looking at the stats, !rust@lemmyrs.org is slightly more popular than !rust@programming.dev. But I don't think there's a consensus on how to proceed; the r/rust moderators have been reluctant to recommend Lemmy, even though they want to move away from Reddit – which makes sense, since Lemmy still lacks good moderation tools, from what I've heard.
The user UX could use some work too. I'm pretty comfortable now, but getting set up subscribed to the communities I wanted wasn't straightforward. And I keep expecting my !community@server.tld links to work even though (I think) I know how to do it.
That's a fair point. I think I might bump up the specs of this instance over the weekend (will make an announcement prior).
I am still of the opinion that both can (and probably should) co-exist. This particular instance will always be Rust focused, federated and have rust dedicated micro-communities. Whether it continues to grow only time will tell I suppose.
Will you update to Lemmy 0.18.0 (announced today)? The new HTTP API is allegedly more lightweight.
By the way, I updated my dark theme published here for lemmy-ui 0.18.0 :)
Would you be open to hosting communities for Rusty projects? I assume the answer is yes, but not with free-for-all community creation enabled.
While this is just curiosity with no group in mind, I jumped onto /r/bevy (which I wasn't even sure existed) and there's a sticky saying they're looking for a new home.