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Beehaw Support @beehaw.org Mika @beehaw.org

every single time I send a beehaw link to my wife on discord, we get 502 error for 5-10 minutes after, as if we were being rate limited? I'm a bit lost what's going on

unless everyone else is getting those same errors and they just happen to perfectly correlate with when i send a link on discord

anyone have any ideas?

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  • lemmy is, and i cannot stress this enough, not built for the primetime. our setup is currently being held together by scotch tape so the site flickers a bit like this; we're about to do a bunch of upgrades and other stuff (in the near future) to try and make the site more stable

    • This whole situation reminds me of when pokemon go! came out and their servers just got mauled for 6 months straight I feel empathy for yall and couldn't imagine the stress yall are in with the influx of people.

    • fair enough, good to know we're getting some upgrades!

    • I really hope I am not being annoying by asking this here, but I don't quite get what primetime entails? I am assuming that the paragraph talks about fediverse not being built for large scale? Apologies once again

      • lemmy was designed for exactly the number of users who used it before the reddit influx (and exactly the sort of tech-savvy user who would find lemmy and think it desirable) and not a user more, and now it's having to accommodate about 10x that number and people who expect it to slot into the hole reddit used to fill for them. how running this place has transpired since June began is genuinely less of a "stress-test" and more of a "systemic revelation that everything here is designed in a way that is completely antithetical to scale or baseline usability"

  • Ah, so it's your fault! /s

    More seriously, it's not just you. I'm getting them as well and I'm pretty sure everyone is. They usually resolve pretty quickly though. I think we're just getting a lot more users than we ever have in the past, and the server bees are struggling to keep up, especially since they have to work around a lot of jankiness with the Lemmy software.

    It kind of reminds me of Reddit when I first started using it. Reddit downtime was basically a meme, it crashed often enough that there was a whole "downtime bananas" trend where people would draw stuff on bananas during downtimes and post them when the site came back up.

  • Sorry :(

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