Problem:

My account does not currently have an email address configured, and I'm trying to add one for account recovery purposes. However, when I try to add my email via the settings page on the web, it doesn't work.

Expected Result:

If I update another field (e.g., languages) by itself, the save button briefly turns to a spinner, then turns back, and there's a message saying "Saved", followed by a page refresh. The relevant changes are reflected in the contents of the page.

Firefox dev tools shows a PUT to save_user_settings with what looks like a reasonable payload, and a 200 response from the server.

I would expect adding/updating an email address to behave in a similar fashion.

Actual Result:

If I try to add an email address (either by itself, or along with changes other fields), the save button turns to a spinner for quite a bit longer (probably 60ish seconds, but I haven't timed it), then turns back. No saved message or page refresh. Manually refreshing the page shows the changes did not apply to any of the changed fields.

Firefox dev tools shows a PUT to save_user_settings but the request payload is empty and there's no response from the server.

Additional Comments:

For reference, I was able to make a similar change on a different instance with no problem maybe an hour ago, so I'm inclined to think that it's not an issue with my setup. The other instance is on 0.19.16.

I'm getting a Cloudflare warning about an expired certificate when I try to access bytes.programming.dev.

Hello! I'm working on my home server trying to get some networking problems solved, and out of nowhere my nginx is suddenly being hit from this instance tens of times per second. I'm at several thousand lines in just 10 minutes. I'm still new to networking stuff, trying to learn what I can. Is this normal?!

Edit: For some background, I used to roll my own instance, but as I wasn't very comfortable yet with network security and all that I pulled it down. This was maybe a year and a half ago. I get lots of lemmy instances looking to check in, since they think my instance still exists, but this is a bit much...

Edit 2 to fix the photo

Edit 3: I'm reading that returning 410 Gone should tell the instance that mine is permanently gone, so I'm going to set that up in nginx. According to pull #5256, since I'm returning a 4xx error more than 3 days it should have already stopped.

Update: programming.dev seems to be respecting the 410 pretty quick! I installed Grafana to finally see some network stats, and hopefully lemmy.world and .ml will respect it as well in the next couple days (Stats started recording when the container went live, and .dev stopped pretty quick afterwards)

I was curious if this was a Jerboa issue or just the instance, but I get the same problem when I use the web version. When I try to go to the second page of posts (by clicking next or scrolling down) it seems to hang forever. Is this affecting others or just me?

I recently opened a new show and tell community for devs to share their projects but I can't see the posts when I access through community through programming.dev, but I can see when I access the community through lemmy.world. If I can't see the posts, I can't imagine that other people can see posts. I have not seen other communities with the same issue, I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do.

Solution: if you set your account to hide read posts then the back end will not even serve the posts so it appears as though there are no posts. I'm such an idiot

Hey everyone! Sorry for the few hours of outage on the site. There was an issue with the renewing of the SSL certificates and in standard fashion it happened at the worst time when nobody could fix it quickly.

Drove back to my PC and renewed it so the site should be fine now. Hope everyone has a good rest of the holidays!

All alternate frontends have been updated to their recent versions.

• Alexandrite (a.programming.dev) has been updated to version 0.8.20
• Photon (p.programming.dev) has been updated to version 2.2.2
• Tesseract (t.programming.dev) has been updated to version 1.4.41
• Voyager (v.programming.dev) has been updated to version 2.42.0

Hope you enjoy the new changes on them! Theres too many changes to list them all here but if you’re interested you can look at the releases page for each one.

• https://github.com/sheodox/alexandrite
• https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/releases
• https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract/releases
• https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Been getting this "Invalid SSL certificate" (Error 526) for a week? (more or less). Accessing through Android app and web browser from Spain.

The Photon menu is showing 1.31.2

https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon

Reddit moderators could use this to tell their communities all content plus extra will be here instead

Hi all,

First off, I want to apologize for all the server instability. We long ago outgrew our instance size, but I was unable to afford a larger node on our provider, Vultr. We were maxing out every part of the server whenever any even slightly significant number of users were on the fediverse.

I've finally found the time to migrate us to a new provider, which allows us to step up to a much more powerful configuration. That migration has now been completed. I actually intended to post about the downtime on this community this morning before beginning, but when I went to do so, the server was already down and struggling to come back up. So I went ahead with the migration.

Server before 4cpu/16GB/400GB NVMe Server after 8cpu/64GB/1Tb NVMe

Please update this thread if you are seeing any issues around any part of the site. This means duplicate threads, things that aren't federating, inability to load profiles, etc.

There is still database tuning that needs to occur, so you should expect some downtime here and there, but otherwise the instance should be much more stable from now on.

During this process I also improved several other aspects of operating the server, so any 'actual' downtime should be accompanied by proper maintenance pages (that hopefully don't get wiped by ansible anymore), so that will also be a good indicator of legitimate maintenance.

Once again, I really apologize for all of the downtime. It's very frustrating to use a server that operates like this, I understand.

snowe

This is more a technical curiosity than a complaint.

And it's not only about the last two days. I have been finding this instance to be intermittently unreachable more often than any other popular(ish) instance I occasionally visit, and more than what some instance trackers show (I don't know how they work).

And luckily when that happens, cloudflare helpfully informs me that the problem is not at my end, although not always.

EDIT because the post didn't go through!

I used to prefer to go to https://old.programming.dev/ but this frontend is not working anymore (for a few months I believe). As I get a bad gateway response, hopefully, this is something that could be fixed.

But maybe I was the only user of this frontend, in which case, I think this might not be worth to revive it.

Yesterday programming.dev was down for hours.

I checked https://status.programming.dev/ and it is indeed a working status page, but with no monitors added.
Which is already surprising.

But even more confusing is the consequential claim of "All Systems Operational", even when the instance is down/unreachable.

What's the state and plan for the status page?

Today I haven't been able to login through Jerboa. It worked fine in the past. I downloaded Voyager to try and it failed as well. Weirdly the browser works perfectly fine. Any idea what might be happening? Thanks, friends!

programming.dev has been having some server issues lately. I've also occasionally been getting REALLY slow response times, waiting 5+ seconds to refresh the page.

Seems like federation has been broken for a little over a day. Comments don't seem to be propagating to or from other instances, checking All/new it suddenly switched from a constant stream of posts from other instances to exclusively posts by local users.

Programming.dev seems to be experiencing slowness intermittently again. It is most pronounced on Tesseract, but also on the default UI. Using a mobile client such as Voyager seems more responsive, so maybe the API isn't suffering from it.

Hi,

I saw that someone replied to one of my topics, and I wanted to react or reach him back. But I've saw the following :

I suppose it's only the Network community ? (where the post was hosted ? )

I've discovered the modlog

https://programming.dev/modlog?page=19&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=1227688

But this user seem to have a lot of activity :) So I don't find why on Network he was Banned ?
is there an easy way ?

Thanks.

If you ever run into issues with the instance make sure to report them to someone on the admin team so we can fix them (Ive seen some people mention some stuff I didnt know about before since it wasnt brought up). Duplicate reports about the same issue is better than no report at all so dont worry about reporting something someone else already might

Most of the team can be reached quickly through the discord and matrix channels (more of the team is on discord but theyre federated to each other)

As well since I already got this question due to the lemm.ee shutdown just wanted to also mention here we did onboard someone new to the admin team since when we asked in the post and the instance is doing fine

I fixed a slowness issue so you might see the instance get quicker but if it still bad let me know. Ive been clearing out some tasks in my backlog for other projects im doing and am planning to start doing development work on some things relevant to the instance again sometime in the summer. For things related to the community side of the instance prioritize reaching out to someone on the community team (list is on the legal site) as always since they are the team that deals with those aspects)

Hi everyone! Were currently looking to get two new members of the community team: one for programming.dev (our forum and link aggregator) and one for bytes.programming.dev (our microblog)

Tasks would include making sure the community side of the instance runs smoothly so that people can enjoy the content on it

For programming.dev that would include helping with handling reports that come in, handling applications and making sure content hosted on the instance follows the CoC. For bytes it would be the same bar applications as bytes does not have an application process. You can see the full administration guidelines on our legal site here: https://legal.programming.dev/docs/administration-guidelines/. The primary communication platform for the admins is discord but all channels are also bridged to matrix

Anyone interested feel free to reach out to one of the team members listed in the administration guidelines (apart from snowe) or comment on the mirror of this post created on the programming.dev side (you can reach out on discord, matrix, programming.dev, or bytes)

The process for getting added onto the team would include an interview and permissions being added slowly to make sure new additions understand the guidelines and how they should be handling reports

Programming.dev finally got official administration guidelines. This document codifies what has up until now only been loosely discussed topics throughout the year in the private administration chat channels.

We hope that by putting the guidelines into writing and making them public, we can ensure a consistent level of moderation by the administration team. But also more importantly, let everyone know by what guidelines and metrics the administration team should follow, making it easier for you guys to hold us accountable and report any instances of an administrator overstepping their role, or decisions you disagree with.

While the primary focus of the document is aimed at administrators specifically, it also includes information to users on how they can contact the admin team if they want to report another admin for deviating from our guidelines.

As always, feedback is more than welcome and we would be happy to discuss any thoughts you may have on our guidelines, nothing is ever perfect.

I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

Aeharding, Voyager app dev, released a tool showing if an instance has improperly configured progressive streaming, which seems to be the source of images and videos sometimes not loading properly on third-party apps. This instance shows up with an error with this tool.

This post is just to raise awareness of this tool to admins and if it was something that can/should be investigated? Has anyone else had the issues described on this page? I can say I've had images and videos fail to load from time to time.

Progressive Streaming Tool

It's pages and pages of this. Maybe you want to restrict who can log in and create repositories.