Usually, this is caused by external servers blocking the lemm.ee server from downloading images. This is happening surprisingly regularly, I’m not sure if there’s a good fix for this…

The YouTube thing does indeed appear to be a bug, I will look into that separately. Thanks for reporting!

We did indeed have a delay with outgoing federation around the time you made this post, but it already recovered shortly after. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Generally it is indeed possible to take over communities with inactive moderation, but have you tried contacting the mod first?

@andromedusgalacticus@lemm.ee, are you still around?

We had a temporary issue with generating different formats/sizes for existing images. I believe the issue is now fixed, our server is going through a backlog of missing files currently and regenerating them. I believe all broken images will be fixed within the next few hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

We had a temporary issue with generating different formats/sizes for existing images. I believe the issue is now fixed, our server is going through a backlog of missing files currently and regenerating them. I believe all broken images will be fixed within the next few hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hey, I see you luckily already received a relevant response here, but I still want to clarify: this community is for lemm.ee support, but your issue seems to be related to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world, so actually lemm.ee admins wouldn’t be able to help you with this.

For now, I just redeployed all of our servers completely, but as I don’t know the actual root cause of the issue yet, I’m still investigating to figure out if anything more is needed.

Sorry for the delay in updating the status page - I actually had gone out for lunch just a few minutes before the downtime started, so I didn’t even realize anything was up until I was back at my computer about 45 minutes later 💀

Actually, we’re using Hetzner’s cloud load balancer for lemm.ee. But if this issue repeats in the near future, then I will definitely consider setting up something else.

There are two useful sections on https://status.lemm.ee for this - firstly, there is an automated check for federation with all other instances on the bottom of the page, and everything there being red is a definite sign that something is wrong with lemm.ee itself. Secondly, near the top of that page, I will always write a status message manually when I discover & start work on any issues. This second part can have a bit of a delay, as it requires manual input from myself, but I have updated it every time we had any issues so far.