As you reading are undoubtedly aware now, the Lemmy.one instance experienced a massive failure this weekend. Unfortunately the data was not in a recoverable state, so the server was restored from a July 26th backup, and data after that time is likely lost.

Since this occurred while I was out of town, I haven't had the time to collect all the details of what happened, so I will have to post more information at a later time.

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[–] 24 points 3 years ago (3 children)

My biggest concern was that there was no way to find information about what was going on. Your Mastodon had no information.

There was a thread on Lemmy support about it and some people thought the instance was gone forever.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I got confused, and ended up making an alternative account in another instance. Glad Ido not have to worry about it, but redundancy is a virtue.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    With each day with no news I started considering making another lemmy account in case this one didn't come back. I didn't know which one to make my new home though, since I liked privacyguides run one the best.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for your work! No one is expecting you to be always available, considering this is voluntary work you are doing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    @jonah can this post be unpinned? Don’t think I need it at the top of my feed anymore :)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Why is this still pinned?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Just another appreciation comment here. Thank you! Glad it was just temporary, and hope it doesn't cause you too much stress.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Can we please remove this as a pin?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for getting it back up.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    ty 4 ur work 🙏 look after yourself.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you for your hard work none-the-less.

    I had a feeling it was just that. I heard rumbles about some type of issue in the lemmy software itself; although I don't know the exact details. It appears similar problems happened to other instances as well; so don't take it too hard...several massive instances did in fact crash.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for your work! I'm glad everything is back up and running.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Unpin this. It's 3 months old.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for the hard work and expense of hosting. Appreciate it

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Does anyone know why this is still showing up at the top of my "active" feed?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    Uptime robot can provide both monitoring and status page for the user. Could be an option?

    https://uptimerobot.com/status-page/

    If something where to happen I think a message could be added to the status page as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Welcome back! We were all terribly worried about the outage and the radio silence. Thanks for posting up an explanation!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I never used mastodon so much in my life.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for your hard work! I love this instance the best.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Glad to be back; Thanks, man!

    What's up with browsing lemmy.world? Did it de-federate from us here or is it a syncing issue?

    [Edit]Fine now

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Thanks for all you do! Can someone (either you or someone that knows) post a link to your funding page? I've been meaning to set up a donation since this is my preferred instance but haven't got around to it. Missing it all. Weekend is a good reminder!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are we having a server failure today? I seem to have no ability to post comments.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    So I have a question. Since the last backup using which the server was on the 26th, there are several posts and comments missing. But since most of these comments and posts originate from other instances and are still there, why can't lemmy.one pull these comments/posts from the instances¿?

    Also Jonah thanks for all the hard work.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Are new signups not being accepted? It's been nearly a week since I applied. I thought I answered the questions appropriately. Other instances accepted relatively quickly, within a couple of days.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Is it me, or are some of our comments missing? I feel like I made some comments on another server, but they are not there. I guess I don't understand how this works.
    By the way, thanks for your help.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    restored from a July 26th backup

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't underhand why the comments disappeared from a different server.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Maybe because that server synced with this server, assuming this is your home instance. If the comments aren't on any record here, they might get deleted from the other server.

    Option 2: you attempted to make those comments but they never went through because this server was already having problems. So they never truly existed on the other server?

    I'm just guessing, I don't know how the hell this fediverse stuff works.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    And there is lies the point of failure. If we generate posts and so on...will they also disappear if a particular lemmy server disappears?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thanks for your work on this instance!

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago*

    I’m just glad it’s back up. Thanks for the hard work.

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