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Registration is closed on some instances and servers are choking because a quarter of a million people fled to Mastodon in less than 48 hours, around 10k/day pr
by guerrilla 4y ago
Registration is closed on some instances and servers are choking because a quarter of a million people fled to Mastodon in less than 48 hours, around 10k/day prior to that. The servers and communities have never been under this kind of load before, not even close. Neither issue has anything to do with FOSS. Also, the "Mastodon" mobile app is known to be incomplete; this should be mentioned in guides. Use the web or another app and you'll be fine.
- Waterluvian 4y agoAhhh so maybe some of these rough edges aren’t standard experience. Good to know about the app. I assumed it would have been the best way to begin.
- anonymousab 4y ago> Neither issue has anything to do with FOSS I think part of the complaint is that the app should not be showing those servers front and center - or rather, it should be made obvious when an option is not going to work or if unavailable, and functional servers/choices should be front and center in the UI. It's the kind of polish that does matter for the common non-technical user, and the kind that is typically missing from FOSS apps in many ways because there's just so much of it to do. It's never-ending and there usually isn't enough development resources on an open source project to handle everything.
- guerrilla 4y agoSure but Mastodon the app isn't Mastodon. It didn't even exist until recently and has nothing to do with the website which has been the main thing. It would be a lot better if that mobile app wasn't released until it was ready, since the other ones, most people agree, are fine. Remember how Reddit existed long before its app? And how there were plenty of working non-official apps? This is like if Reddit had released their app in beta.