In honor of .worlds announced downtime for a (very much needed) upgrade

I just gotta say, this is the coolest part of the feddiverse by far.
Problem: I don't want to stop doom scrolling.
Solution : Doom scroll on another instance!

It’s always a good idea having multiple accounts. Not for smurphing, but honestly just for having a backup option if there’s performance or connectivity problems.
Every once in a while I recommend backing up your subscribed communities and importing it into your secondary account as well, just in case.

I'm just happy they exist. Thanks admin team. Yeah it's better for the long run if we haveany instances, but it's very nice they have this service for free. Lemmy world is cool.

World users will finally have access to things the rest of us have grown accustomed to (like I don't think world has alt text support). Also, one hour downtime is mighty ambitious (esp with the controversial rank recalculations), must have some mighty server hardware.
- I wish .world would publish their hardware, I've been quite curious as to what they're running on lol
- Just an hour? We here on SDF used to have around a week of random downtime each time with older versions.
  I must bring bad luck. Like half the time it failed a minute or two after I logged in...
- And wordpress support

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?
- 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
- 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.
- 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.