So this week things seemed to improve -- access to the system was better, and the Notifier process abruptly caught up with the one-week backlog I was seeing. Not sure what, if anything, happened (if there was an announcement about something, I missed it), but things appear at the moment much better than they were a week ago.

As a user, today has been particularly rough -- about 3/4 of the times I've tried to do something, I've gotten:

Internal Server Error Apologies but the website is unavailable at the moment.

or

503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.

or a partial load (content but styling messed up). The problem sometime clears up with just another reload of the page, sometimes it takes a while before the system will give anything different.

And, as previously, Notify services aren't notifying, so nothing is going outbound to other servers/nodes.

The info I got back from Ruud in the ticket I submitted:

We are aware of the issues, and are currently waiting for the latest version (2026.1) of Friendica to be released as a docker image. We hope that upgrading will solve at least some issues, they have added some fixes especially for friendica.world :-) I hope they will release that in the coming days.

I hope so as well. The site is throwing nothing but errors for me today.