I had problems loading pictures today with error code "bad store".

I didn't notice any downtime of course as I would have been asleep at the time haha. I just wanted to jump in here and say that I really appreciate all the work you put into running this instance and maintaining it's content. I know it is early days and the lemmy software isn't super stable or easy to work with, not to mention the monetary aspect of the costs of the server time.

I'm just happy there's somewhere non-commercial I can go now to see my strange combination of yiff, news, and memes. I'm sure we can all tolerate a bit of downtime here and there, so try not to worry about it too much when it happens. We know you can't be available 24/7 so some downtime is inevitable, try not to fret about it too much when it happens. And for goodness sake don't overwork yourself and get the burnout, I'm pretty sure that's happened to several of the larger instance admins so far, I'd hate to see you befallen the same fate.

I was having problems earlier today, like 1:30pm EST. My frontpage wouldn't load any posts unless I hit refresh a few times and my account wouldn't show anything. I couldn't post either. I tried resetting cache and cookies. When I tried to log back in it just cleared out the fields and did nothing.

Yep, I've been having problems logging in over the past few hours and ended up resetting my password a few minutes ago (apologies if I set off any alarms). Have also been getting 502s from the asset server, and 400 "Request Header or Cookie Too Large" from the API.

@Wander briefly, about an hour ago; Cloudflare 502

Yes. Images hosted on the site had trouble loading and I couldn't vote, then pages failed to load altogether. As @River says, it was about an hour back.

Yes, had "400 Bad Request" in the browser console.