I have been trying to get access to my feed for most of the day, and I am just getting timed out messages and no feeds. Anyone else part of this instance? Can you confirm if it is alive.
I really like calckey but the stability has me thinking about switching back to vanilla Mastodon.
The large influx of users would need to ask server admins to expand to serve better
It was down for maintenance: https://atomicpoet.org/notice/AWSb4BKok7iMbbTPQ8
Edit: it’s back online
@hellerphant Yea … seems something big went bad, like something on the VPS provider broke (see the admin’s alt here https://stop.voring.me/notes/9fplmm2ct2ijtu9n).
There’s a chance that there’s nothing they can do to fix their VPS provider or they’re trying to move to a new provider.
Additionally, seems that the brutal thing about going down on the fediverse for a long time is that once you’re back up the server has to “catch up” with everything.
Hmmmm. Now I am definitely starting to think it might be better to move back to standard Mastodon. A whole day gone with no ETA feels kinda bad. I know this kind of stuff can happen, but Calckey was already having some weird issues for me anyway, so I am a little scared away by it.
I think the main issue is that calckey.social is used as a pre-prod testing ground to live-test “-dev” releases that are less stable than even “-rc” releases let even stable releases.
The question is can calckey.social be both cutting-edge highly updated arch-linux style and the flagship of calckey? I like the idea of pre-testing new features before everyone else, but a flagship should be stable. It’s hard to do both.
They also have growing pains.
I tried it, but Calckey always felt like riding in a car that was about to break down any moment. I’ll check back after some development time.
