Question about Lemmy front-end and feddit.de
Question about Lemmy front-end and feddit.de
feddit.de has been giving "Server error" for some time but I read that the server is still working when using a Lemmy app. Tried the Photon front-end today and choosing feddit.de as instance.
- Example post from All : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12459995
- Example (German) post from Local, 3 hours ago : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12475331
My question (I'm just curious, I have no account on feddit.de) is : Can an alternative front-end on their server co-exist with the other server software ? I guess it would be a matter of installing Photon and then point nginx configuration to that. Or am I missing something crucial ?
Unfortunately the feddit.de server has been broken for quite a while and we have trouble contacting the admin.
There is a matrix channel where the admin is answering from time to time. But he is currently very occupied with real life stuff. And he is also the backup admin, as the original admin is currently on a workation on the other side of the globe and seems to be unreachable…
Unfortunately the feddit.de server has been broken for quite a while and we have trouble contacting the admin.
Oh, that explains it.
It is not that the regular frontend doesn't work and alternative frontends do, it is that half of the stuff on their server (including image uploads and the frontend) don't work because the admin has no time to deal with it. The problem isn't the software used but the lack of maintenance.
Isn't there a software issue if it breaks with time unless you maintain it? What has happened more specifically? Memory leaks?
The server's hard drive filled up completely from image uploads, which in turn corrupted the database.
By the time the admin noticed it and had time to troubleshoot, the automated backup process had replicated the corrupted database, overwriting all backups that had a still-functioning database.
There was some personal event in the admin's life as well as a long planned vacation at that time.The lesson to be learned here is that a private server administrated by a single person in their spare time isn't something you can rely on.
The Feddit community is currently trying to found an organisation that can share the administrative load and is able to receive donations.
Lemmy front-end can be anywhere, it is front-end. It is an app install on your computer. Think, front-end is an app like mobile app on your phone. But front-end is on internet because it is a web-app, you got to download it first. THen your browser cache it.
Some instance host front-end for convenient, but you can access front-end from the project homepage.
For example: to use alexandrite front-end access lemmy.world, you can
I created my first lemmy account on feddit.de, it was in july 2023, and since some months i was unable to access to my account on pc but worked on Voyager. Tired, i decided to switch to sh.itjust.works
same, only I switched to .world
Most lemmings would probably disagree with this choice, but it's just a lemmy instances like others imo