Anyone know why? Any way we can promote sh.itjust.works to lighten their load possibly?
Only way to do that is have redditors understand that they don’t need to be on the most popular instance in order to have a great experience.
In other words, nothing we can do, it’s gonna take a while :)
Hey I’m a redditor and I’ve gone as far as setup my own instance rather than register on the “big ones”.
Just being a bit snarky, don’t mind me :P
The lemmy_server code is not scaling well, lots of database contention.
Supposedly they are working on major performance improvements for the next release. No idea when it is scheduled to come out though.
The database stuff was solved today. The bigger job, happening as we speak and hopefully finishing in a week or two, is ripping out all the WebSocket stuff and replacing it with simple HTTP. No more crazy updating feeds and weird buggy vote numbers, on top of the performance stuff.
