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
Hi, I’m not on the instance but I follow @atomicpoet and he’s posting updates about it.
Thank you so much! Will keep checking in then!
@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.
Yea. They’ve got plans to rebrand and alter the flagship instance. Perhaps they’ll change tack as you suggest. After this, there may be a bit of a push to do so from users.
@hellerphant
Yea … it’s pretty easy get upset and negative about these things in the moment, especially if things get cleaned up.But yea, calckey.social was always a kinda beta thing, which was perfectly fine for a young/experimental platform.
But this past week or two has really cemented its beta status and put a wet blanket on any excitement and good-will the platform had.
I kept my mastodon main anyway, but its things like this kinda reveal why mastodon is dominant. Platforms be tricky
Yeah 100% no shade on what they are doing. I think it’s great. But I do want to be able to access my accounts regularly without major problems. I’ll stick it out a little longer, mainly because I already lost all my posts migrating from Masto, and I don’t want to lose all my posts again migrating back haha.
Really vital point you make there. It illustrates the ways in which a dominant platform shapes the ecosystem to be more like it, especially when the ecosystem is one of interconnectedness.
Calckey offers full post migration from mastodon to calckey. Great. But mastodon doesn’t offer the reverse. Ok, don’t use mastodon, that’s shit. But everyone is already using mastodon and have their posts there. Ok, stay on mastodon then, safer!
@hellerphant not criticising you here at all. It’s just that there is an insidiousness there when the protocol doesn’t guarantee things.
There’s good reason to believe it’s just been a bumpy period for the platform though, and atomicpoet seems pretty dedicated, announcing that he’s bringing in more help from his other project … so real good chance that things will stabilise.
If not, and I’ve thought this before, we might look back in 5-10 years and consider gargron kinda the Linus Torvalds of the fediverse. While other platforms will have come and gone, he’ll have just been there for years, getting shit done.
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.