The entire instance went down for me for a while. Also sdf.org itself has been failing to resolve all day. Has anyone tried logging into the system and popping on com or irc and asking around? Someone there might have a better clue what’s going on because I think there’s more issues than just lemmy right now. Dont forget the server that runs this lemmy instance is literally a public access server and you have the ability to raise issues directly with staff there.
I guess I'll check back in a few months to see how things are going. But for now I'll use other instances.
For anyone who chose this instance due to the low "blocked by & blocked instances" (see github link above), futurology.today https://futurology.today/ has low blocks too, but no old UI https://old.lemmy.sdf.org.
Things are more broken because of a undocumented upgrade from Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.4 to 0.19.0-rc.5 that happened sometime these past days and its been leading to connection issues all around
Its also concerning there has been no communication regarding these server upgrades in the main thread, Lemmy 0.19 doesn't seem to be anywhere close to stable to be pushed onto main, yet we keep upgrading (perhaps because a downgrade from 0.19 is not possible?)
You should login to the system and express your concerns! I do agree lack of communication from within the platform is frustrating. But the sdf does have a help desk and chat rooms where you can reach the people who maintain the system.
Ooh that's right. I just checked and it's true: I posted something in a thread hosted on lemmy.ml and it shows up here on SDF but not when I visit lemmy.ml directly.
Gee, and I thought I was going slightly crazy, seeing as though there's never any reaction or vote on anything I post outside of SDF anymore.