Posts and pictures may not upload correctly, or at all, or maybe magically appear after seeming to not upload. Comments may also duplicate. We will tidy house once we get some stability back after the recent update to 0.18.1 and increased user load. Thank you for trying to continue to upload images for the community.
I don’t think it’s Lemmy as a whole - probably just lemmy.world right now. I haven’t been having any such issues today on lemmy.ca. We really ought to encourage people to join smaller servers to spread the load out more evenly. That’s the wonder of Lemmy - when one server is struggling the others can still work.
My question is, what happens when you try to interact with subscriptions that are located on the overloaded server? Those will still crap out, right?
I switched to a different instance since World is lagging too hard. I have no lag and can access all posts on World with no loading issues and no lag time when loading World posts or communities.
I recommend you find an instance that’s near where you live to minimize server ping.
Edit: I can upvote super fast without having to wait either.