Blaze (he/him)

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • but they aren’t the only one seeing thumbnails fail intermittently.

    Indeed, but their case is quite worse, and I know this first hand because lemmy.cafe was my main instance for a few weeks, before I had to come back to this alt as the issue was preventing me from seeing most of the thumbnails. Sopuli is fine, and also running on 0.19.7.

    My point though is that an instance having an issue at a point in time isn’t a reason to discount it.

    Indeed

    All instances have issues occasionally.

    Yes, but the main difference is how long it takes them to resolve those. Programming.dev is a good example, if you look at [email protected], you’ll see a lot of posts from 2 months ago when the update to 0.19.5 corrupted their database, and now they have quite a few large of their communities that cannot be accessed from the community page.

    The issue has been on-going for 2 months, with the single database admin expert getting support from other members, but still unable to fix it. If I were to migrate a tech community today, I might not consider programming.dev due to this reason.

    We all know that everyone here is a volunteer, but you still want the instance you choose to be stable, and issues to be resolved “reasonably” quickly. That’s why I’m always impressed with lemmy.zip reports, it shows a level of dedication to their instance that you don’t always see elsewhere.