Doing some server upgrade testing.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    i’m a software engineer and i’ve worked in IT for 15 years before that. i’d like to pay back how much i’ve been enjoying .ml

    how can i help?

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        i want to contribute to .ml and minimize how much of my effort goes to .world or .shitjustworks; i think my IT experience would be more beneficial to this end.

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          lemmy.ml runs on the vanilla Lemmy codebase, so from a software development standpoint, you mostly can’t pick & choose which instances you’re helping. You can work on whichever features/GitHub tickets you’d like to see on lemmy.ml (though keep in mind that a few features are optional/configurable, and the lemmy.ml admins might not want some enabled).

        • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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          1 month ago

          So you don’t want to contribute to the Lemmy project, because other instances might benefit from it?

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 month ago

            they already have plenty of support; but if that’s the only way to contribute then i’ll do it.

            is it?

        • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Best way to decentralize users more would probably be to make your own instance. .world is certainly centralizing Lemmy’s userbase too much right now.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 month ago

            no reddit diaspora sites has ever survived and no instance on the lemmyverse has the critical mass of users necessary to recreate reddit’s subreddit communities.

            the people looking for a reddit alternative will leave and .world will become like any other instance after .worlders start to miss the niche content enough.

            • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              1 month ago

              As for this valid focus on critical mass of users, perhaps a linked tags approach is better than a multiple-communities structure, until specific tags gain enough friction to become communities. Just thinking.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Of course right after I start work 😢 but forreal thanks for all the work y’all do.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    That’s dinner time for me and tomorrowI’ll be having a first date dinner: we both hope there are going to be good news after those two hours.
    Good luck to the both of us!

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sry for the downtime, we’re back up.

    We tried several things but weren’t able to diagnose the specific problem, but we’ve narrowed it down to a specific file. We’re keeping track of it in this issue. Most likely its gonna be one of those extremely simple things that got missed.

    Thx for being patient, we’ll probably have more downtimes in the future as we need to test more fixes.