For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I’ve been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser.

The site isn’t listed on any down detector I know of, and each app gives different errors but ultimately just won’t load.

It’s often enough that recently when I consider jumping on here I just don’t because there will probably be an issue. Ranging from not loading, JSON errors, or just blank screens and my comments not working…

What’s going on? Is there a status page for these places?

  • NakedmoleEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    Welp, I don´t know how to do this. What I get when I download the latest release does not really get me anywhere because there are just some .py and a .ini file in it. How do I turn that into something I can actually execute?

    • @lemming934English
      2•11 months ago

      First, edit the .ini file with your lemmy servers, usernames and passwords.

      Then make sure you have python interpreter with requests installed. You can check this with python3 -m pip show requests. if it says something like package not found, you should look into how to install python requests on your operatation system. If you downloaded it from python.org, python3 -m pip install --user requests should work.

      Then you can do python3 lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini. Let me know if you run into any problems!

      • NakedmoleEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Thank you, helpful person!

        I edited the .ini file and installed python 3.11.4 without problems.

        When I type py in powershell it replies Python 3.11.4 (tags/v3.11.4:d2340ef, Jun 7 2023, 05:45:37) [MSC v.1934 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32, so it was obviously installed successfully.

        However, when I copypasta the commands you posted I always get the same reply for each, that python could not be found. What does that mean? Do I maybe have to put a filepath into the command somewhere? Do requests have to be installed separately? What is the meaning of all this, the universe and everything and why does my back always hurt?

        • @lemming934English
          2•11 months ago

          I bet replacing python3 with py will work:

          py -m pip install --user requests
py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini
          • NakedmoleEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            Please help me further, we got close, I can feel it!

            • @lemming934English
              1•11 months ago

              Did you try my suggestion in this comment?

              https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1491482

              I think your problem is that you aren’t pointing PowerShell at the right folder. You can use the cd command to get to the right folder containing the python script and config file.

              • NakedmoleEnglish
                1•11 months ago

                It is weird. I can navigate to the folder in powershell without a problem.

                C:\Users\Username\Desktop\lemmy_migrate-1.1.0>

                But when I execute

                py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

                in there I get

                C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe: can’t open file ‘C:\Users\Username\Desktop\lemmy_migrate-1.1.0\lemmy-migrate.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

                Edit:

                Found the problem, it´s

                py lemmy_migrate.py -c config.ini

                and not

                py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

                Thank you for the help!

          • NakedmoleEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            py -m pip install --user requests

            worked but also returned a warning:

            WARNING: The script normalizer.exe is installed in ‘C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\Scripts’ which is not on PATH.

            py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini

            does not work and returns an error:

            C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe: can’t open file ‘C:\Users\Username\lemmy-migrate.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

            I guess I have to place the files in a certain directory, putting them in the python folder did not help though.

            • @lemming934English
              1•11 months ago

              Just make sure that you run the py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini command in the same folder that has the python script and your edited config file.