I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

  • fuser@quex.ccEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hi there - thanks for posting. I’m serving lemmy (ansible install) on nginx from Ubuntu 22.04 and I’m seeing this weird problem sometimes where the submit button is not enabled on the “create post” form. Sometimes it works but then it inexplicably stubbornly refuses to - I am not seeing any apparent error show up in the console, nothing in the lemmy or nginx logs (naturally, because the HTML form isn’t submitting to the server because the submit button’s disabled). Happens in different browsers, tried restarting nginx, rebooting, nothing seems to fix it. Now, my addled brain does recall seeing something about Ubuntu 22.04 having some issues with Lemmy and perhaps that’s what I’m seeing - it’s just weird and I’ve never seen a web app do this before - any ideas? The url is quex.cc and you’re welcome to test there if you like, but I’m really just looking for any suggestions for investigation before I start thinking about moving to a different OS.

      • fuser@quex.ccEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        yes, good suggestion, thank you - although before I do I’m going to spend a bit of time to see if I can isolate the problem - I just tested it from a mobile device and the local PC browser and it’s working now. I used the exact same url, text and everything to create the post and I didn’t change anything - didn’t reboot, didn’t even restart the browser. Except for the fact that it’s intermittent, it looks like some kind of js or css problem, but I need to replicate it and if I do that, I’ll probably be able to figure it out.

        • fuser@quex.ccEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I realize how stupid I’ll sound admitting this, but I think the problem was that I wasn’t selecting the “community” in the pulldown, so the submit button wasn’t enabled.