Friendica.World status, support and issues

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Current status of Friendica.World (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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At this moment, friendica.world is not stable. You can experience 504 or 503 errors, or just be unable to load the site.

This is being worked on. We'll keep track of the currently known issues in this post.

Database query tuning

One of the main issues at the moment is the database hanging with many inefficient queries running for minutes or even hours. Most of them are using an inefficient 'NOT IN' or similar construction. We've created an issue for that here: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14947

Also we've created an issue for many updates to a key-value table: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14948

Update 30-06-2025

The beforementioned issues were closed, we'll upgrade to 2025.07-RC in order to get the latest fixes and do troubleshooting from there. We'll send the slow qeury logs to the devs.

Update 03-10-2025

It has been a while, so here's a long overdue update. In the last update I mentioned installing 2025.07-RC, which we did in test. But we noticed it broke the media (S3 plugin).
This issue has been raised, and it seems it has been fixed but not yet pushed (see https://github.com/friendica/friendica/pull/15158#issuecomment-3289713892). Looks like it's close. If this has been fixed, we can re-try installing the update on test, and if it works, on prod.

We're now looking into another issue, which is the diskspace running out. Partly because of performance issues with cleanup jobs, the database is growing very rapidly. And as this is a physical server, we can't easily extend storage. So we're looking into options to extend the space without introducing a big extra cost.

Update 05-10-2025

We have ordered extra disks for the DB server.

Update 06-10-2025

Apparently this server only had room for 1 extra disk. We need 2 extra disks, so we can mirror them. We now decided to get a 'new' auction server for Friendica's database, with more disk. The server we ordered also has more CPU cores and RAM so that's a bonus.

We'll migrate the database soon, and will announce the downtime here.

Update 08-10-2025

Two updates:

We've planned the db migration for this Saturday Oct 11th.
A PR is ready which fixed the issue with the S3 addon for the Friendica update. We've tested this fix on the Dev instance and it works. Once the PR is merged and the docker image updated, we can upgrade prod.

Update 04-11-2025

The database has been migrated to the larger server, and today we also rescaled the 2 app servers to a larger plan, so they have double CPU and RAM.

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Question about friendica.world connectivity (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ThreeStarDave@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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Hi -- hope this is the right forum/mode to ask about this.

I am looking at moving my Friendica presence over to friendica.world, as the current server I am on, my-place.social, is closing down at the end of the year. I value Friendica for its robust editing interface and connection to both the Fediverse and Diaspora.

My question is about connectivity out from friendica.world. When I post something here, it looks like it sits in "Notifier task is pending" for quite some time, and this morning after 16 hours, a test post reads "Delivery is underway to remote servers 1/2".

If I am understanding that correctly, it seems like quite a lag and (not knowing who those remote servers are), not much in the way of connectivity. In contrast, my-space.social goes out to 50 servers in a matter of only several minutes.

Am I understanding this lag correctly? Is it tied to something about the current performance issues on friendica.world? Am I concerned about nothing?

Thanks.

~(Edited to correctly name the place I'm currently on.)~

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Best Account Type (friendica.world)

submitted 1 month ago by sabiondo162@friendica.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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Hello hopefully I don't botch this (newbie). What would be the best account type for a blog. I basically have a blog and would like to create a friendica account where I post links and ever so often a full article with friendica itself.

My assumption the best account type would be Organization.

Let me know if that makes sense. Thanks

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Database server migration Sat 11-10-2025 Update: Finished (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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This Saturday we will move the Friendica.World database to a new server. The current server's disks were full and couldn't be extended.

We will start at around 19:30 CEST (https://www.inyourowntime.zone/2025-10-11_19.30_Europe.Amsterdam)

Update 11-10-2025

We have run a rsync of the database, but when running a second rsync, we noticed this still takes many hours. So we decided to bring down friendica.world now (11:15 CEST) so the rsync of the data will be finished this evening.

There was no time to find another solution like database replication, because the disk will be full after this weekend.

Second update 11-10-2025

The database migration was finished, and after it was checked that all was running fine, we also did the upgrade to Friendica 2025.07-rc Everything seems to run OK. From here, we will do further troubleshooting into performance issues that still exist. Also, we plan to add 1 or 2 extra VMs for the frontend.

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Tip to avoid time-outs (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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The default page for Friendica is the 'Network' page (https://friendica.world/network), but that loads very slow, almost always getting into a time-out.

Going to other pages mostly works, for example https://friendica.world/community

I have now enabled the 'Startpage' addon, where you can set the page you want as the default landing after logging in. I have set it to 'community'. You can change it here: https://friendica.world/settings/addons

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Maintenance 30-06-2025 (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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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.

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Fulltext Search Not Working in Own Channels – “Table handler out of memory” Error (friendica.world)

submitted 5 months ago by tomtom@friendica.world to c/friendicaworld@lemmy.world

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Fulltext Search Not Working in Own Channels – “Table handler out of memory” Error

I am experiencing a persistent problem with the fulltext search in my own channels on this Friendica instance. No matter which term I search for—even a single word—the search does not work and I always receive the error message:
“Table handler out of memory”

Maybe there are some settings on the server side that need to be adjusted so that the search feature works reliably again.