DB Optimisations are complete.

• Opening Users’ profiles and view Posts/Comments via New and Old are now a lot faster than before. (Especially the bot users with 2.2million posts!)
• Viewing things by New should also be faster too

We’re updated and are now performing the database optimisations.

When I did them automatically it became a problem with them having a bug or problem. So I do them manually now… And as you’ve found out, I haven’t prioritised updating them for a while.

I’ll look at updating them in the next day.

Edit: That was surprisingly painless! All updated. Thanks for the nudge!

I like the idea. I’ll look at sorting it out over the coming weeks maybe with a post to see what the general consensus is from the more active Reddthat people.

The fediverse is weird with our content duplication. Which is normally harmful for SEO. But I’ve been out of the SEO business for a while so it’s possible now that search engines end up handling this.

This was why originally on all the subdomains we have a dedicated robots txt - https://reddthat.com/robots.txt vs https://old.reddthat.com/robots.txt To ensure that we don’t have duplicate content across our subdomains which would hurt SEO (or what normally happens, is “old” would become the default or rank higher due to it being more text heavy and less JS heavy so it loads faster.

But LW and other more “popular” instances could very well end up being the default as they might have more Authority.

Now what about your request, this looks like bing and yandex ? Does it work for Google?

Currently we’d need to build something, maybe like LemmyWebhook and then write some logic so that only when a new post that is on a local community & not NSFW, do we send the request.

But considering our low post count, we could probably get away with a daily cron task which gets the list and sends it as a batch. Which would be less of a change and easier.

But, I guess the question is should we? Are we lacking in SEO? Do our posts take too long to show up?

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Alright. Fixed!

Yep! It wont allow you to save images to the user account, and probably to the community as I’m sure it’s the same error. I’m checking on the dev instance to see if its the same (which I suspect it will be).

That would be a new bug, can you upload the image normally?

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A classic example of maintenance! “It will be less than a minute, no one will notice” … “Crap”

You don’t need to worry too much about that. It was always going to happen. Backing up the database(s) as well as all other files as well as uploading of videos makes it a “cost of doing business”.

Personally I’m not in financial strife and am very lucky in that regard, but who wants to pay $150/m and do extra work! No one! So any monetary help is always welcomed, and it reminds me that people actually enjoy Reddthat and want this to keep going!

Pictrs Test:

Looks all good now!

I’ve been having power outages recently and haven’t managed to get my ssh-key from my computer. And since we moved to the new dedicated server I forgot to add my spare! Thus it’s taking a little longer to investigate.

If my power holds out I’ll nab the keys tonight and properly setup my other keys so I’ll be able to access from my phone.

This happens when pictrs crashes :(

It usually fixes itself within a minute or two … But this looks like it’s a bigger problem. I should be able to look at it after work!

Downvotes were never enabled on this instance 🙂

Reddthat tries to be something better, not the same. There is a big discussion on the matter over here: https://reddthat.com/comment/2392123 where I outlined why downvotes will for the foreseeable future stay off.

Tiff

I’m sorry you feel that way and before we delve into the matter deeply I will preface my arguments with I hope you stay on Reddthat but I completely understand your point of view. I also hope that Sync fixes their application to only show downvotes when it is applicable.

Lemmy is Reddit like. We are not reddit. We may have a name that was originally a pun. I wanted to take the best of our previous platform and enjoy our time here.

People’s preconceptions around voting is incorrect with any sorting algorithm on Lemmy. Top is the only one that filters by vote counts.
All sorting algorithms use voting as one piece to determine where it should be placed in your “feed”. The amount of comments and interactions inside the post are also weighted in the algorithm. So if you are sorting via Hot, someone who comments very recently will actually be at the top of the comment section. This negates the (lack of a better term) “Reddit effect”. Where coming in late to a post results in your comment have zero engagement.

There are many reasons people vote and I couldn’t even list them all because they are personal reasons which are different for each individual. Agreement, disagreement, disgust, humorous etc. Out of the 4 listed here how many would you vote up? The Reddit answer would be 2. The Lemmy answer (in my view) would be at minimum 3 with disgust being the outlier.
Disagreement should not mean a downvote. You may hate my answer, you may dislike their answer, but that doesn’t mean downvote. Disagreements is what makes the world go round. Differing points of views, different experiences, different values.
As long as you can be constructive in your point and you/we remain civil that would be a good conversation. Even if the conversation ends with both of us in disagreement! That is the Reddthat experience I want to foster and the ideal little corner of the internet I want to see happen.

While I understand the annoyances that come with being unable to downvote offtopic posts or downvoting personal attacks etc. Not replying and not engaging in the off topic content will result that comment going all-the-way to the bottom. Thus the same effect is reached.
For all other content such as personal attacks, abusive behaviour, or NSFW content in SFW only communities, you need to use the report button instead, because that type of behaviour should not be allowed in any community.
Reporting also can be utilised for not just comments but for posts that meet any of the conditions you specified.

As with the fediverse and as others have already alluded in reply to this. I’m not locking you here. You are able to signup somewhere else, and with tools like lemmy-migrate you can sync all of your subscriptions and be up and running in little to no time!

Obviously I don’t want you to move away and I want you to have the best experience possible but at the same time I cannot see a reason to enable downvotes. Besides from the “feelgood/feel like you are contributing to the community”. There are too many “downsides” which I hashed out in your linked post which make me feel uncomfortable to enable the feature at this point in time.

Downvotes, at their core are from another platform which doesn’t align with the ideals I have for Reddthat, which is for health communication. When people associate a score they instinctively think it is worth/not worth something.

I hope that answers all your questions on my thought process, decision making, and how downvoting does not contribute to healthy community.

Cheers,
Tiff