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Show some information when an instance is down (lemmy.world)

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

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When Lemmy is updating, the server is obviously down. The app infinitely loads and it gives no context about what is happening. So I was wondering if it would be possible to get, maybe a screen or a popup, informing us why we can't use Lemmy. Something like that. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This sounds like a bug since the app should never infinitely load. I am unable to reproduce this issue however when I tested against a test server. When I brought the server down the client immediately shows an error.

It sounds like the server you are connecting to isn't offline but might be ignoring requests. When this happens the network call can take a few minutes to complete since the app has some retry logic in place. There isn't really much I can do here since it's impossible to tell between the server ignoring requests due to maintenance and the server being busy due to high traffic. Ultimately it will be up to the server owners/Lemmy server code to return a specific error for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You think you can confirm what is the info you're getting when the server is down for maintenance (more specifically lemmy.world) ? So I can make a feature request for it if they don't send something back and just drop requests

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I don't think I used the app during the maintenance period so I never got a sample response from the server :(. If you saw a spinner though it suggests that lemmy.world never returned any errors and instead just let the request time out. There really isn't anything I can do in that case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I know it's not up to you, I just wanna be sure so I can open an issue on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think this is qn issue with Lemmy either perse. It's more on the server admin to put something up while the server is down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, that's what I want. Ask them to do it

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

I understand. I'm using Lemmy world