Likely Saturday, 1st of November.

We need to do some server OS upgrades and a some other things that will cause a few hours downtime.

Maybe I will already start with some smaller things this week, that should only cause a short down-time for reboots.

Once that is done, I will look into running a Piefed test instance to investigate how to do the database migration from Lemmy. If everything goes smoothly, we might be able to do the Lemmy to Piefed migration end of this year or early next year.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    12 days ago

    From this thread (edited here to add a couple extra features).

    Piefed has some neat features:

    • a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
    • the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
    • the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.
    • More powerful and fleshed out moderation tools.
    • An integrated Wiki, which any moderator can use to create a wiki page for their communities (We already offer this through our existing wiki, but Piefed’s implementation is potentially more seamless).

    On the sysadmin side of things, it’d bring some nice advantages regarding network resource usage, and potentially raw speed. It also appears to be less buggy overall.

    Also @BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net

    • Jack@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Ah very cool, from a dev side of view it’s very cool that Lemmy is written in rust, but that also is showing it’s downside like slower development process and the performance is only as good as you make it I guess.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netMEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, in theory the memory-safe nature of Rust is appealing, but unfortunately it also still seems to come with some unrelated downsides. I’m sure @poVoq@slrpnk.net could go into more detail there :p

        It seems that while lemmy could implement similar resource usage improvements, it would otherwise be only slightly faster than Piefed, as it appears that once those other optimizations are made, the main bottleneck on performance is the database itself, and at that point the language the frontend is written in doesn’t seem to make much of a practical difference. At least, that’s what I’ve been told.