Sometime early this morning, our database started having issues, most likely due to a disk corruption issue.

Unfortunately the postgres database was unrecoverable, and we had to restore from a nightly backup, so a few hours of posts and comments will be missing.

Apologies again for the downtime, and for the disruption.

    • Stache_English
      370·
      9 months ago

      Oh holy cow, those servers are running at some pretty high temps!

      • TheSausEnglish
        200·
        9 months ago

        Liquid cooling required

      • morrowindEnglish
        70·
        9 months ago

        That’s the power of optimized rust 🦀🦀

    • DandroidEnglish
      110·
      9 months ago

      Holy fuck. I thought this was a joke before I saw who was posting it.

  • bigkahuna1986English
    460·
    9 months ago

    Do you know that you are doing to me?! I actually had to work while lemmy was down…

  • v_krishnaEnglish
    330·
    9 months ago

    How does lemmy federation work in this case? Conceivably after being restored from backup the lemmy.ml instance could see those few hours of lost history as federated to other lemmy instances and resync it back as the host instance. Obv I’m vastly oversimplifiying things but what happens today?

    • DessalinesOPMEnglish
      180·
      9 months ago

      I believe they’re lost, as recieved apub content doesn’t have the original post / comments, but I’m not totally sure. cc @nutomic@lemmy.ml

      • AdaEnglish
        160·
        9 months ago

        It strikes me that there is the potential to use trusted remote servers as a means of recovering the lost data. I mean, nearly every lemmy instance except lemmy.ml will have copies of the missing data, and given the hugely redundant availability of that data (including the ability to compare from multiple sources to establish/verify trust), using that data to rebuild missing content seems like it could be useful functionality.

        • heyfrancisEnglish
          30·
          9 months ago

          If I understand, federating contents through ActivityPub only works once. Sounds a good feature to re-download contents again, but may introduce additional work as there should be some way to know if a content is missing then another job to rebuild

    • nutomicMEnglish
      30·
      9 months ago

      That doesnt work because we generally cant trust remote servers. Plus we dont even know where to fetch from, so wed have to run a complete crawl of all known instances which isnt practical.

  • RealityCavesInEnglish
    290·
    9 months ago

    Awesome that it’s back up! Thanks for all your hard work

  • ipkpjersiEnglish
    270·
    9 months ago

    No worries, glad to hear you got it up and running again :)

  • beta_testerEnglish
    260·
    9 months ago

    No worries! Is there an announcement anywhere in case it’s down? Mastodon? Matrix?

  • magnetosphere
    240·
    9 months ago

    No apologies necessary. Y’all have been working overtime to get things back in order, and I appreciate it!

  • spaphyEnglish
    222·
    9 months ago

    I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM MAD

    HOW DARE THIS FREE SERVICE I USE GO DOWN HOW EVER WILL I POST MEMES FROM MY OPAL THRONE

    Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

    also thank you for hosting us and working on the issue!

  • Omega_HaxorsEnglish
    141·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    When I saw LemmyMl was down I went to sleep and had a dream where I was eating extremely large fries that that were labeled on the fryholder “Sadistically Large” (chicken fries as well as potato fries) and drinking probiotic shakes so dangerous they literally had to be bundled with a free antibiotic shake by law which of course I took one sip of in front of the clerk to calm them down before guzzling the other shake down with impunity. Woke up before I found find out what the burger was. Maybe those anti-woke types are on to something.

    • chaoraceEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      This was, without any doubt, a prophetic dream. The apocalypse will soon be upon us! Be wary of the four horsemen: Ronald, King, Wendy, and… Chihuahua

  • originalucifer
    110·
    9 months ago

    looks like some replay action too. my instance just got spanked.

  • Ramin HonaryEnglish
    80·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    I saw the “502 Gateway” HTTP error message, but I never even closed my browser tab. I refreshed again today and Lemmy.ml was back online! Thanks for your hard work!