Maintenance 30-06-2025
We are trying to get the latest RC version (2025.07-RC) of Friendica installed today. Taking an extra backup of the DB is taking some time.
Update: The upgrade has been tested but we ran into an issue, which we filed here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14998
We have taken the opportunity to optimize the database, and have now restarted friendica.world awaiting a solution to the issue before we upgrade.
I'm using friendica.world more since the 6th of July. My first login on the 6th failed. Since then I haven't experienced any trouble logging in. Everything is usable since the 7th and performance is a lot better. I'll report back whenever I experience trouble.
15th of July, 8:24 CET, 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn't respond in time.
For the record, I experienced the same behaviour yesterday the 14th of July, but it didn't take long. I tried again 5 minutes later and friendica.world was back. Today, it took way longer. 9:38 CET friendica.world is back it seems.
18 July, 09:42 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
19 July, 11:21 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
things seem to work better now.
Hmm I don't see that yet. Awaiting a resolution to an issue before we do the upgrade.
I wrote a script to facilitate reporting the issues. You may find it at https://codeberg.org/gargle/check-friendica. Documentation is included.
Sat 19 Jul 17:15:35 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
Sun 20 Jul 07:46:41 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
Mon 21 Jul 15:03:13 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
Tue Jul 22 07:45:11 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
Wed Jul 23 09:06:20 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Interesting! My script still reports "Wed 23 Jul 19:11:06 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time" but my browser does render all friendica.world pages. It's very slow though. My script queries api/statuses/public_timeline. If I change to api/externalprofile/show I get a 200 instead of a 504. I'll keep my script on api/statuses/public_timeline however..
Thu Jul 24 09:07:51 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
https://friendica.world/network initially gave a 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser. https://friendica.world/profile/gargle works, and https://friendica.world/profile/gargle/conversations too. https://friendica.world/network (latest creation, latest post, and latest activity) work as well now. Tested at 9:15 CEST.
Tested again in my webbrowser at 9:30 CEST: https://friendica.world/network: 504 Gateway Time-out.
Fri 25 Jul 09:27:31 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Sat 26 Jul 20:00:51 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Sun 27 Jul 09:13:06 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Mon Jul 28 11:20:33 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
https://friendica.world/network gives a 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser every first attempt of the day. The second attempt however seems to work most of the last few days. My script always complains. 504 Gateway Time-out still appears in the webbrowser, but it's usable.
Tue Jul 29 08:45:19 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
https://friendica.world/network worked on first try today the 29th of July. It appears a bit slow, but usable.
Tue Jul 29 19:49:22 CEST 2025 : 503 : 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.
Tue Jul 29 19:51:35 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Thu 31 Jul 10:47:55 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.
Thank you, this is very useful! I am on holiday now, but when I return I will coordinate an effort to get the issues reported and see if we can update to the newest version (last test install was not successful because it broke S3 media plugin)
Thanks for all the work you're putting into this! Did you see https://lemmy.world/post/33265623/18360512? Some things do work, like https://friendica.world/profile/gargle/profile. My script however queries https://friendica.world/api/statuses/public_timeline with my user and password.
I'll use it more consistently in the coming days to see how it works at different times of the day. Pages are loading slowly here but at least they're showing up ^^
3 July, ~18:30 CEST: Pages are loading slowly but everything is usable.
4 July, 22.49 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn't respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world
6 July, 11:14 CEST: Pages are loading slowly but everything is usable. Making a post is extremely slow, almost feeling like it'll timeout before succeeding. (But it did succeed)
6 July, 15:28 CEST: Pages are loading slowly and it is not usable. Thumbnails are refusing to load. The timeline only loads a couple of posts before grinding into a halt. @ruud@lemmy.world
7 July, 12:07 CEST: Pages are loading slowly but everything is usable. Logging in with 2FA took 45+ seconds.
8 July, 03:54 CEST: Pages are loading slowly but everything is usable. An error box says logging in failed, immediately after successfully logging in. (It makes no difference, I can keep going)
8 July, 13:52 CEST: Timelines are loading moderately slowly, but everything is usable and it is the best performance I've observed so far since the upgrade.
12 July, 12:56 CEST: It feels extra slow today. No error messages or timeouts.
13 July, 10:08 CEST: Pages are loading slowly, but everything is usable. Logging in, loading the main timeline (i.e. the icon with boxes), and making a post all took 20-30 seconds to complete. Loading the profile, directory, calendar etc. was nearly instant. No error messages or timeouts.
16 July, 12:08 CEST: Logging in took 20-25 seconds, followed by a 10-second freeze. Loading timelines was also slow and was followed by the same freeze. For some reason loading metadata on a link while posting and making the post were both faster. Parts of the global navigation did not work, so I could not visit my own profile page.
17 July, 01:03 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn't respond in time. 503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle this request. @ruud@lemmy.world
17 July, 11:47 CEST: 503 Service Unavailable. No server is available to handle this request. @ruud@lemmy.world
Thank you for the input.