I’ve been seeing the exact same posts, in the same order, with almost no change in up/downvotes. It’s been like this for at least 6 hours.

Did everyone agree to take an internet break and not tell me or is something not working correctly?

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    3 months ago

    my apologies everyone - it was working rock solid for a few days and I got lulled into a false sense of security and took my eye off the site for a few hours :/ I am still working on some alerting to tell me when rabbitmq dies, but it’s obviously got some room for improvement.

    In any event, I am aware, I’ve fixed the current problem and the queues are draining now. I’ll work on a better monitoring and response automation system tomorrow.

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    Is it just fedia.io or is this happening to other mbin instances too? seems like this happens every now and then, and i also find posts from fedia aren’t appearing on lemmy instances until there is server admin intervention of some sort, then it all updates at the same time. maybe the server admin isn’t available due to the jewish new year holiday?

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      Per @jerry there’s some bug in federation where an incoming message is malformed or something and it causes the message queue to silently freeze. He just has to restart it and things start moving again. Unfortunately it sounds like the mbin devs haven’t got it figured out yet so we deal with the problem now and then.

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        3 months ago

        My apologies - I thought I had the problem fixed, but clearly not. It’s working again, and I will get back to fixing the alerting and auto-error correcting tomorrow.

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      3 months ago

      My apologies - I was off doing other things today as I thought this problem had been fixed. Things are almost complete with catching up now and I’ll be working on the problem more tomorrow.

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    3 months ago

    Yea, federation keeps breaking unfortunately. Hopefully an automated solution can be implemented.

    Btw, can someone tell me how to ping a user? Admin could probably use a heads up.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve tried to look up how to DM a user and I haven’t found a way yet, so I’d like to know as well.

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        3 months ago

        To DM someone open their user profile by clicking their name then click the little envelope icon. To ping someone just mention their username preceeded by an ampersand @ like so: @dhhyfddehhfyy4673

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            3 months ago

            Ah, right. I wrote that lying in bed around 1 AM, surprised I got any of it correct.

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    3 months ago

    Just checking in after not having been on here for a few hours, and yes, completely.