I don't mind server hiccups or very slow load times, though that has been the case for both kbin in the past two weeks and huge swaths of reddit's history.
Although I'm not a programmer, I keep up a little bit with the threads for kbinMeta and other magazines that are direct links to Ernest and his patch notes. Kbin defedded temporarily after the first big migration push from June 12-15. During this time, everyone was also being auto logged out for being inactive for more than 2 minutes at a time, and captcha was a requirement nearly every time you tried logging back in.
I have seen a big uptick in activity on a lot of topical and current events magazines, but my hobby communities don't exist here. I've subscribed to every magazine accessible to me across kbin and Lemmy for knitting and crochet, and I still have yet to see any of those threads on my m/sub > sort by hot page.