I made a big postmortem on it over at https://pawb.social/post/15732006 :3

Really glad to hear! Please do let us know if you encounter any problems! (CC @natebluehooves@pawb.social :3)

I THINK I’VE SOLVED THE MYSTERY.

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It’s also hard to pin down too…

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Thank you for doing your part, and thank you for the cute sticker!! :3

Apologies, a configuration change resulted in the entire database being taken down affecting all of the services. This was a preemptive change for the upgrade we’re planning in the next few days, but clearly the existing DB was not prepared for it. https://t.me/pawbsocial/210

We’re looking to perform an upgrade this weekend to see if this alleviates the issue. There seem to be quite a lot of problems lately with emails and comments where they either don’t send, or return an unhelpful “this is a toast” prompt… which isn’t useful. We’ll have a follow-up announcement soon.

Yes! This is on our radar for the next service we set up! We’re working to migrate and stabilize the database before rolling out new services, but expect that’ll occur this weekend, so hopefully before the end of the year we should have some news on the Pixelfed front :3

👋 This isn’t just you! We’re aware of the issue and believe that the latest version of Lemmy should fix it; It seems to be an issue with the cookies being set with Strict instead of Lax causing it to not be sent by your browser.

Full announcement for maintenance to perform the upgrade: https://pawb.social/post/14286683

👋 Apologies for the late reply, but we have been investigating and believe that this isn’t an isolated case.

It initially appears like our database is being overloaded due to the vast queries that Lemmy runs for generating statistics, so we’re trialing a hardware upgrade for a new database server backed by NVMe drives to hopefully improve the throughput.

We’re not quite ready to go live with it yet, we’re still ensuring everything is in working order and the database replicates successfully from the live copy to the new database reliably.

We’re hoping to have this in place before the end of September and we’ll post an announcement for maintenance when we go to do the switchover, as the change will also affect furry.engineer and pawb.fun.

Fixed: https://pawb.social/post/11661170

Should be fixed now, if folks could give it a try again!

As a test, have a picture of a sandwich!

US Mountain Time! (I put that on the other posts, but forgot here, my bad!)

Maintenance will typically be as needed, but I think I’ll need to make a new poll for capturing weekend / weekday preferences, I hadn’t thought about differentiating that.

Case 2 - Overnight (10 PM to 8 AM)

Case 2 - Evening (5 PM to 10 PM)

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