this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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I have wildly more patience for Lemmy's glitches than I do for Reddit's. Lemmy's devs are working on a shoestring budget with just a few people trying to prop up a whole social network. The project is still pretty early in its life cycle.
A lot of the mentioned issues are caused by instances having different versions.
This could be fixed with API versioning. As in you support the last couple versions of the API rather than only the new one.
I believe this most recent update to v0.19 was somewhat unique in the regard of login incompatibility across versions, as major breaking changes to authentication itself were the focus of it.
Yeah but take into account nobody was expecting reddit enshitificate so fast.
Before we get the massive exodus things were smooth.
Yeah I'm sure it revealed a lot of scaling issues and other bugs.
It's often considered bad practise to prematurely optimize software. But when working at scale little things can start to really bite.
Exactly. Those people are paid salaries. They have teams working on things. When something is allowed to go wrong, someone either didn’t do the job they’re paid for, or they’re incompetent/apathetic. They’re using proven software that’s been around a while.
When there’s a problem with a Lemmy instance, then maybe the one person responsible was at the job that actually pays their rent. They’re working with beta software that’s full of “surprises”.
Since your reply to the post for xarexyouxmadx is not visible from this instance, I will reply here.
Has this problem gone unresolved for a long time?
Right now, a similar issue with the instance lemmy.today
The first instance I was registered on doesn't exist anymore either. It was celeb.pizza