I don’t know what happened but in the last half hour the website has become highly responsive again. Thank you admins for your hard work.

Look at the top right of my screenshot, you will see some extra icons. I’m sorry, I should have included the URL: https://lemmy.ml/post/1212570?scrollToComments=true

I was logged in under this same account as I was browsing.

I just mentioned Dynamo as an idea without thinking about it too much.

Dynamo works well for one and two dimensional data structures but for more complex things you probably want a regular database. I expect it could be done efficiently but not at a good cost and without tons of technical difficulty.

Furthermore friends, please sort by new where possible to help give new posts visibility when you interact with them.

It is definitely slower than usual. It’s not just you. The site is clearly under very heavy load.

I think probably a pluggable storage backend is the best move. For example, any cloud hosted instance could use a native document storage format such as dynamodb, which is often quite cheap or free for small use-cases.

More people = more problems I am certain but this is a social network and without people it will fail. We must all make an effort to be the change that we want to see in the world.

I don’t foresee a problem in the immediate future aside from higher server load, but in terms of culture, only people who believe in a new social network will be willing to join.

In 5 years however when this is a great place to be, a large number of people will join who don’t respect the legacy. The departure from Digg to Reddit felt like this too, I hope that the federation aspect will ensure this is longer lived.