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As of right now, firefish.social has been down for nearly 2 days upgrading and changing databases, as their data migration is taking longer than expected. 🤞 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Two thumbs up dev(s), hope you're doing okay and getting some sleep in between. Had some rough production upgrades in my life, and this sounds like a pretty bad one. 😖

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefish definitely seems like it's overly concerned with aesthetics over anything else. Nearly every instance I checked out had a ton of custom CSS which frankly reminded me more of something like Tumblr than what it really is (Mastodon with a coat of paint.) I don't mean this as a slight since it's obviously attracting a community, but it's completely inscrutable to users not familiar with the platform its based on and seems to be very taxing to maintain (my experience mirrors yours somewhat.)

If they can get more people on board to keep it together then I'd definitely be willing to spin up another instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If they can get more people on board to keep it together then I’d definitely be willing to spin up another instance.

Yea, from memory, the big stumbling block they had was that they were going to rely on a single DB expert who didn’t come through and went MIA, so they were left with no DB expertise and trying to hack their way through. Then there was some split amongst the contributors. Don’t know where they are up to know, but the team has lacked some baseline expertise.