At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)
Also at the time of writing, Lemmyworld has >99% uptime.
By comparison, other lemmy instances with as many users as Lemmyworld keep going down.
What optimizations has Lemmyworld made to their hosting configuration that has made it more resilient than other instances’ hosting configurations?
See also Does Lemmy cache the frontpage by default (read-only)? on !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
Kbin is (slightly) better looking though.
True, but that won’t make it any more or less stable. I suppose the fact that kbin can serve a page without Javascript would make caching common pages easier but you’ll still need to update the cache every time someone comments.
In theory it shouldn’t be that hard to take the kbin frontend code and use it as a template for Lemmy. There’s a good chance rewriting the UI from scratch is easier, but it’s all just HTML and CSS.
I played around with the Stylus browser extension and made a custom script with adjustments to widths, padding, font sizes, line heights, etc and Lemmy started to feel a lot better and more familiar. I’m sure there are really talented people working on ideas to make it better.
🤞 Can’t wait to see how things develop!