possible; If someone is spamming the API it can easily bog things down.

Is that why the site seemed to slow down suddenly, not that long ago? It does seem better now.

It was about 5 or 6 spam bots blasting out lots of spam; probably just someone abusing lemmy/smaller instances. I've turned off new account registration for now. Unfortunately the captcha system included in lemmy isn't the most powerful. If you see any others report em and they'll be banned

Can you try posting it here

https://lemmy.world/c/support

Right, but that shouldn't give me a 404, bad gateway, or gateway timeout from ttrpg.network itself - which is what tends to happen.

The servers are sleepy and need regular naps.

federated content lives on its original server for non-text stuff; Posts and comments federate over, but stuff like images are basically proxied to your current instance. If you go into a post that is from another server and there are images, it will go to TTRPG.network to begin to load, then need to load those resources from the remote instance, so there is a bit of a hop/back-and-forth there. There could be lag between instances that could cause issues.

But I always accessing ttrpg.network. That's the server I use. So if I "hit a server" which is having issue - this is the one. It doesn't matter that content is federated in from other servers - I'm not accessing them directly, I'm just going to https://ttrpg.network/.

you might have hit a server that was having an issue.

How would federation be the issue? I don't understand. Do you mean that the federation process somehow overloads the servers?

Certainly always appreciated. I will continue working with the host; It's worth noting that things have gotten better than we first migrated. I prepaid for a year with the host because there was a 10% discount vs monthly, so somewhat locked in at the moment (not really locked in, but ya know, sunk costs), so we'll see where we're sitting as the year goes on.

The way these servers are federated may be the issue. As federation becomes more prevalent this may become more robust.

I see. Thanks for the info. I signed up for a small monthly contribution to help offset the hosting costs.

Hey there, we swapped to a new host back in December after our old host went out of business. So far the results have been.... lackluster. I've been reporting to the host when I notice outages, which seem to be reasonably frequent unfortunately.

Yeah, there was some indexing issues with some of the images when we migrated. Stuff had to be cleaned up, but i think we lost a number of thumbnails with those issues. It should just be mostly thumbnails that were affected of some existing stuff; I'm not aware of way to regenerate thumbnails outside of just uploading a new image.

I'm seeing a lot of broken image fallback icons; mostly for community icons and banners, as well as thumbnails for images posted before the migration. Am I the only one experiencing this?

Things appear to be faster already.

Thanks for all this work. Also, thanks that you communicated wat you where doing and how it went!

yeah, there was some database indexing issues, so we had to reindex it, plus the server needs to catch up on 3~4 days of fediverse activity. Hopefully things should even out. I'm not noticing too much slowness myself, though.

Glad a new host was found.

It does seem to be really slow, but hopefully that changes as everything caches and indexes or whatever it does.

letsago

Damn and I just posted the cure for cancer.

Good luck.

good luck!

Thank you for doing the thing, and keeping us updated!