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Question about Lemmy front-end and feddit.de (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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feddit.de has been giving "Server error" for some time but I read that the server is still working when using a Lemmy app. Tried the Photon front-end today and choosing feddit.de as instance.

Example post from All : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12459995
Example (German) post from Local, 3 hours ago : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12475331

My question (I'm just curious, I have no account on feddit.de) is : Can an alternative front-end on their server co-exist with the other server software ? I guess it would be a matter of installing Photon and then point nginx configuration to that. Or am I missing something crucial ?

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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The alarm is that your server stops working, which you will definitely notice.
But you can get it working again simply by deleting the file.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

lol okay. So that fixes nothing, except you'll be able to get it running a bit faster, provided you're even there to quickly react. But if this isn't the case, like it wasn't in the case of feddit, it's exactly the same. No maintenance: server becomes unreachable/crashes just because there's no disk space. Very fragile.

Oh well. Status quo, I guess.