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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is kinda weird that they have to take the entire site down at once to do maintenance. It still is spread across multiple servers, so why couldn't it be rolled out in a way that only the smallest possible fraction is down at a time?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

The Lemmy docs do go cover a bit on rolling releases, but it's not recommended for large jumps or any upgrade that involves a database migration

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

with db migrations the database structure changes. it's not possible to do db schema migrations without downtime unless the application has been built with that in mind and the application is able to run with a partially upgraded schema.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe they don’t want to complicate things trying to go with 0 downtime? Even though depending on how proper their infra is that might not be that hard.