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The instance chooser is filling up nicely (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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It took a few days for instances to be upgraded and admins to fill in their profiles but it's looking much healthier now!

https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

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[–] Quokka@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love to see it!

I've noticed the speed icons can fluctuate rapidly from one page reload to another, could that be smoothed out to an 'average' each daily cron or something?

And I think displaying user count or some sort of activity indicator could help make better informed choices.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

The speed icons are generated each page load, by making a request to each server. The request comes from the client browser so generally the closer an instance is to the viewer, the higher they'll rank for that person. Everyone will get different results and depending on how much load the instance is under and general network conditions they could get somewhat different results each time.

I intentionally omitted user count because that will make people cluster together on the biggest instances, which is not healthy for the network overall. The instance-choosing websites for Lemmy, Mastodon and others all make this crucial mistake.