Hey all,
It’s been slightly over two weeks since lemmyrs started. It’s been pretty fun watching the community grow!
Some instance stats for you:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 97M 1.7M 96M 2% /run
/dev/vda1 24G 15G 7.1G 68% /
tmpfs 485M 0 485M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 97M 4.0K 97M 1% /run/user/1002
$ free -mh
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 969Mi 445Mi 77Mi 134Mi 445Mi 240Mi
Swap: 2.3Gi 571Mi 1.8Gi
lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user;
count
-------
294
(1 row)
We’re cutting it pretty close in terms of RAM and Disk usage, the user growth rate has mostly flat-lined though once r/rust came back online so I’m not too concerned. When (If) it’s time I’ll likely bump up the Vultr instance plan to something which will continue to serve us for the foreseeable future.
Previous relevant posts:
I think it’s likely to spike again when the api goes dark. I haven’t been back there, is any consensus forming regarding whether people will use /r/rust, !rust@lemmyrs.org, or !rust@programming.dev going forward?
Looking at the stats, !rust@lemmyrs.org is slightly more popular than !rust@programming.dev. But I don’t think there’s a consensus on how to proceed; the r/rust moderators have been reluctant to recommend Lemmy, even though they want to move away from Reddit – which makes sense, since Lemmy still lacks good moderation tools, from what I’ve heard.
The user UX could use some work too. I’m pretty comfortable now, but getting set up subscribed to the communities I wanted wasn’t straightforward. And I keep expecting my !community@server.tld links to work even though (I think) I know how to do it.
That’s a fair point. I think I might bump up the specs of this instance over the weekend (will make an announcement prior).
I am still of the opinion that both can (and probably should) co-exist. This particular instance will always be Rust focused, federated and have rust dedicated micro-communities. Whether it continues to grow only time will tell I suppose.
Will you update to Lemmy 0.18.0 (announced today)? The new HTTP API is allegedly more lightweight.
By the way, I updated my dark theme published here for lemmy-ui 0.18.0 :)
Of course I will! I was just waiting for a few more instances to bump theirs before I update this one.
Most excellent, I have been using your CSS with Stylebot :) You could also submit a PR to lemmy-ui repo btw with your custom theme so it gets even easier for people to try.
Since I’ve turned it into UserCSS, I think you need the Stylus extension to use it now, sorry 😄
I wanted to make a PR for lemmy-ui, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Would you be open to hosting communities for Rusty projects? I assume the answer is yes, but not with free-for-all community creation enabled.
While this is just curiosity with no group in mind, I jumped onto /r/bevy (which I wasn’t even sure existed) and there’s a sticky saying they’re looking for a new home.
So there’s two options (assuming
/r/bevyeven wants to consider migrating here):/r/bevycould potentially use the existingRust: Game Developmentcommunity we have hereI don’t really have preference either way. I do think that project-specific communities could certainly become a thing if people prefer to keep discussions laser focused.
And yeah, unfortunately I can’t really make it free-for-all community creation simply because of potential DDOS/spam attacks and things rampantly becoming out of hand (part of the reason the instance is also application based).
I’m not advocating for free-for-all at all! Perhaps Lemmy will get application-based community creation down the line, but until then you can always have a thread open, a comm-application community or just tell people to message you.