In the past two weeks, the site has been very unstable, sometimes for one second a page would load and the next it wouldn’t load at all. The status of lemmy.world would fluctuate a lot on lemmy-status.org, and there have times where the site has been down for hours.
There have been numerous ddos attacks etc on the site recently. Rudd, the operator has been very forthcoming with information.
Where can I find this information?
Either the problems with its API responses are breaking lemmy.world, or a broken lemmy.world is causing problematic API responses.
Currently, you can ask lemmy.world for page number billion of its communities and it’ll return a response (for the communities it thinks it has on that page, rather than an empty one, as it should). For something like lemmyverse.net, this means its crawler can never get to end of a scan, and some apps are maybe trying to endlessly load the list.
References:
https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/139
https://lemmy.world/post/2651283Can you check periodically so you can get the link?
