The database migrations took a while which meant about 10 minutes of downtime between 9:09pm and 9:19pm NZT. But the site is now up and hopefully running OK. Let me know if you see any issues. I'm hoping this will lead to a more stable site, but one big issue still hasn't been resolved so I can't promise anything.
And since we're doing an announcement post, here's a couple of things to check out that I never officially announced:
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Voyager (previously called wefwef) is a web app for Lemmy intended to resemble the Apollo reddit app. You can use any instance but we have our own hosted at voyager.lemmy.nz
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mlmym is an alternate frontend intended to resemble the old reddit theme. As far as I can tell, this is specific to an instance, so will only work for people with a lemmy.nz account (but other instances have their own version, such as lemmy.world). You can access this frontend at old.lemmy.nz
These are both set to auto-update, so please let me know if an update breaks things because I can roll back to a previous version manually.
Is there a way we can contribute to the running of the server/s. If it be in the form of admin - pull requests etc. or Financial?
Lemmy.nz runs the Lemmy software. They absolutely take pull requests if you're familiar with the technology, check out: https://github.com/LemmyNet
The code is across multiple repos, the main ones would be "lemmy", the backend, and "lemmy-ui", the front-end website.
The lemmy.nz server is being hosted by (but is not run by) fediservices.nz, and you can donate to them to help with server costs: https://opencollective.com/nz-federated-services
awesome thanks I didn't know about fedizservices.nz sounds like a good cause.