Lemmy.today had its first unexpected downtime today (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

The disk on the instance ran out of space today, due to the way Lemmy software caches images from all other instances. That cache had filled up about 60 GB's of disk, despite us being a small instance with very little local activity.

I had to delete the last 10 days of cached images again, and I plan to delete quite a lot of older cached images as well. The mobile apps seems to not be affected by this (they have a local image cache I believe), but on the web site, this leads to missing thumbnail images.

They are working on a fix for this in the Lemmy software so the disks dont fill up so enormously with cached thumbnails, and as soon as its out, we will install it here.

Hope you guys didnt get too annoyed or sad by the instance being unavailable for a while.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just keeping me productive is all. Actually, I appreciate that I don't normally spend nearly as much time in the Fediverse as I did on Reddit. My daily life is improved by it. I guess I'd selfishly rather this remain a small thing, but maybe I ought to take better control of my habits instead.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I feel the same. I use Lemmy a lot since it feels like the early days of the internet, but there is not enough interesting content to stick around for hours. Maybe it will grow but even if it doesn't, it's cosy and gives time for other things in life. :)

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