Simon B. Støvring

Dang, I was up at 3AM in the night waiting for the @ivory beta but their post with the link showed up 13 minutes delayed on my end. No luck for me.

Mastodon isn't good at propagating posts in near real time.

Dec 21, 2022 at 2:17amWeb
Show threadAaron PearceDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory its a followers only post so won't show on their own instance.
Show threadSimon B. StøvringDec 21, 2022
@aaron_pearce @ivory Ah, right! I forgot that when writing the post. Removed that part of my post to avoid bashing too much on Mastodon.
Show threadEvan K. StoneDec 21, 2022
@aaron_pearce @simonbs @ivory Aha! Now I get it... I was super late anyway. But good to know. 👍🏻
Show threadBen HagerDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory yeah, seems any sense of “real-time” is not going to work on this platform. One advantage of centralized over decentralized...
Show threadAaronDec 21, 2022
@simonbs The reason it doesn't show up on tapbots.social is because the post is only visible to followers. When you are viewing tapbots.social, you aren't logged in to an account.
Show threadAaronDec 21, 2022
@simonbs For what it's worth, I saw it at basically the same time and lots of other people also say they didn't see the post until around 12-13 minutes after the hour. I'm guessing that was caused by tapbots.social falling over rather than a Mastodon federation issue.
Show threadPrem SichanugristDec 21, 2022

@simonbs yeah, they did a “follower-only” post, hence the “Fediverse” comment 😂

Let’s hope it push to our instance faster next time I guess …

Show threadDimerHunton :toucan:Dec 21, 2022
@simonbs 18 minute delay here but I somehow got in. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadDimerHunton :toucan:Dec 21, 2022
@simonbs *15 min
Show threadPete MorrisDec 21, 2022
@simonbs it made me question whether I really understand how federation works. I was refreshing their profile directly (on their website too) and I didn’t see it until 10 mins after it was posted.
Show threadsammyjojoDec 21, 2022
@simonbs the same thing must have happened to me. I had my home page, ivory page on my Mac and iPhone open refreshing and it appeared late for me 😞
Show threadM.Coutts Dec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory same for me. Up until 2am and didn’t see the post until 2:12am. Productive use of time. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Show threadJuan C. FernandezDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory same
Show threadJoe HribarDec 21, 2022
@simonbs Same here with the post not showing up for a while. No luck this time for me either. Hopefully we can enjoy @ivory soon! I hope you get some sleep now!
Show threadMike VanDelinderDec 21, 2022
@simonbs same. I had notifications set up but missed it by a lot. The early post psyched me out. And potentially I had an old TestFlight link?
Show threadMike VanDelinderDec 21, 2022
@simonbs it also illustrates how difficult it is to tune in to some “live event” and see the social commentary, unless all those people already exist in your graph.
Show threadPedro VerezaDec 21, 2022

@simonbs @ivory same here, I was refreshing the feed like a maniac 😂

At least it is only 11pm over here 😅

Show threadHunter HillegasDec 21, 2022
@simonbs Same. Super frustrating.
Show threadMarc Kalmes has movedDec 21, 2022
@simonbs Same here! Better luck next time! 🤞
Show threadJamie ShawDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory First comment on that post, but yet, 12 minutes after it went live, and already full at that stage. 😔
Show threadMarcus MendesDec 21, 2022

@simonbs @ivory Yep! Same thing here. (Through not fault of the Talbots folks, of course.)

The irony is that the “5 minutes!” post and the accidental post before that were propagated instantly. Murphy’s Law at its best.

Here’s to hoping for better luck with tomorrow’s batch. 🤞

Show threadNick Vella 🏳️‍🌈Dec 21, 2022
@simonbs Something funny was up with their instance, I couldn’t even load the page directly. The beta must be REALLY popular.
Show threadKevin StineDec 21, 2022
@simonbs I was able to get in but had to refresh Ivory’s page for about 10 minutes
Show threadKavakuoDec 21, 2022
@simonbs The „5 minutes to go“ toot was on time for me. I think after that their self-hosted instance got hammered too much :D
Show threadBenno KressDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory same here, was setting an alarm for 2:59 … it’s better to have two chances for a slot, but I really don’t get my hopes up for tomorrow after getting the post in my timeline 15 minutes after it was posted. I did get to see a new (at least for me) alert in TestFlight though saying TestFlight isn’t available before it was switching to „Beta is full“. Seems like it was a close call 😥
Show threadAaronDec 21, 2022
@simonbs you must have just missed it as I saw it 13 min after the hour too and got in.
Show threadNamanDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory Hope you snag it during the next round 10-11 hours from now.
Show threadNamanDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory also, the post with test flight link is limited to followers only, so there might be some issue with you being able to see the post that way. I suggest getting one of the other Mastodon apps and opening their profile that way.
Show threadTim SchmitzDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory Same! (Well, not the 3AM part. 😬) Hope you get some rest and good luck next time around!
Show threadAaronDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory same thing happened to me. That could be the nudge I need to migrate onto a smaller instance.
Show threadMoDec 21, 2022
@simonbs @ivory out of curiosity, did you also enable Notification on that account, curious if that’s more reliable?
Show threadSimon B. StøvringDec 21, 2022
@mamadlin @ivory Yes. The notification also arrived late.
Show threadYannickJan 4, 2023
@ivory @simonbs which is actually good:) the non real time