Hi all,
We're continuing to work through some reliability and stability issues with our host.
The TLDR is that random hardware restarts are causing some services to crash and become unavailable for short periods of time while they're restarting. This isn't something we can do anything about and our host is working hard to track down the problem and solve it.
Most recently and commonly this is affecting our pictrs service which causes images hosted on walledgarden and image previews to become unavailable for short lengths of time. Usually the service is back up within a few minutes.
This is separate from the crashing and slowdowns we were going through last week that appear to have been ironed out. Last week's instability was a combination of organic growth of our communities and higher than normal load on the server for a personal project on the instance. If you're still experiencing extreme or frequent slowdowns on walledgarden communities, please report it to me via DM so I can get it resolved.
The update to Lemmy 0.19.7 is scheduled for next weekend.
Please note this will take us offline for a short time, hopefully not longer than 30 minutes.
As always, feel free to contact me if you notice anything out of the ordinary and I'll see what I can do to sort it out. Thanks all!