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?

  • @lemming934English
    2•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years ago

        I bet replacing python3 with py will work:

        py -m pip install --user requests
py lemmy-migrate.py -c config.ini
        • NakedmoleEnglish
          1•2 years ago

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

          • @lemming934English
            1•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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.