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Comment on Any idea on when the API with Lemmyverse will work again?
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year agoThis being the default answer for all issues kinda stops prevents any discussion of any issue that might be unrelated.
The API problem is that you do (ignore the ampersand issue for a moment):
curl ‘https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250010&show_nsfw=true’ | jq .
and it will return a response for a page of Communities it can’t possibly have. It’s a never-ending list that can’t be indexed.
The thing, it returns without issue - there’s no connectivity problems that DDOS attacks would cause.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
Why are you guessing, when I literally just gave you a link to verify that the API responds?
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Are any other instances affected?
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
No. Just .world. Every other instance returns an empty array when the end of the list of Communities is reached. We’d know if they didn’t, because they’d break web crawlers too.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How peculiar. Could they be running a custom Lemmy build?
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
I think there was a change to the API in a recent release of Lemmy, that .world hasn’t accounted for correctly. I’m guessing because this post has the two most common responses to tech questions about .world: silence from anyone who could actually answer, and the usual “it’ll be them DDOS attacks”.