Demigodrick

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Potatoad (lemmy.zip)
 
 
[–] Demigodrick 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I should probably add a clause to the ToS specifically around screen-dwelling monsters and something about forced arbitration. It's what all the cool companies are doing.

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Lemmy.zip Updated to 0.19.6 (self.announcements)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Demigodrick to c/announcements
 

Hi All,

Lemmy.zip has been updated to Lemmy version 0.19.6.

For a reminder of what's new, check out this blog post from the devs: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.6

The upgrade was rather smooth thankfully, other than a brief 5 minutes where the site wouldn't come back up and I almost died from stress. Thankfully I had to change one thing and it all worked again.

Please let me know if you encounter any weirdness, unexpected error messages, or if someone crawls out of your screen and tries to eat you.

Some messing with configs will continue to take place over the next few hours to check everything is running smooth, so I apologise in advance if the site accidentally topples over for a second or two.

Thanks

Demigodrick

[–] Demigodrick 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Demigodrick 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

0.19.6 test

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test (self.test)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Demigodrick to c/test
[–] Demigodrick 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fair point, probably won't work for mbin because they /m/ instead.

Works fine for photon/tesseract/all lemmy UIs though.

[–] Demigodrick 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's creating a link - you can use the ! method too but meh I prefer my links to look clean.

[–] Demigodrick 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

You can create a link to any community by linking in this format: /c/[email protected] i.e. [fedigrow](/c/[email protected]) becomes fedigrow and is instance-agnostic.

[–] Demigodrick 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know much about SimpleX - With a brief search, it wouldn't have feature parity with the matrix room (uptimekuma doesnt seem to support alerts with simplex for a start) but I'll have more of a look at it.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Demigodrick to c/announcements
 

Hey all,

With the release of Lemmy 0.19.6 (https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-11-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.6) there is potentially a maintenance window on Sunday so I can apply the latest update.

I say potentially, as if there are any reports of issues then I'll hold off, otherwise the window will be for 3 hours (until 15:00 UTC) to allow for any unexpected issues. If there are no issues, then I expect the window to last an hour.

There will definitely be downtime of around 30mins as the update is applied.

As always, you can keep an eye on the progress of the update by visiting status.lemmy.zip or joining the matrix chat where I'll post updates.

Thanks

Demigodrick

Update: many instances reporting updates went fine, so I'll go ahead with this.

[–] Demigodrick 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ibis is really early days. I hosted it for a bit and had things like federation issues and softlocks. Will be really interesting when it's a bit more mature though.

[–] Demigodrick 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(Just chiming in to say it's probably a cloudflare thing, should sort itself out eventually!)

[–] Demigodrick 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Potential revival for KSP2?

[–] Demigodrick 4 points 2 weeks ago

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Hello and welcome to the November 2024 edition of the Lemmy.zip Server Update!

Long time readers will know the format by now, but please have a good read and give this an upvote if you enjoy it :)


Communities

Take a look at these new communities. If you enjoy them, give them a subscribe :)

As I said last time, I was going to start clearing up old and unused communities. I've reviewed most of the communities and mods have been very good at coming back to me, so thank you. We've managed to reduce the list of communities now, which should make it a bit easier for those looking to host communities here or those that are new to Lemmy in general.


Server Update

We've had a couple of maintenance periods for the usual front end and back end updates, but I'm glad to report that the server has been mostly stable for a good few months now. I made some little tweaks to the database based on some feedback around shared memory running out (thank you @BrikoX!) otherwise our uptime in 2024 (so far, let's not jinx it) has been 99.8946% (including maintenance downtimes, i.e. when we moved server).

I have also recently taken the time to update the Terms of Service - nothing has changed materially, just an update to wording around GDPR and age limits/NSFW content.

Finally, my plan is to try and complete work on our "ban notifier" - we don't issue many bans, but there is no communication from lemmy if we do this. So a banned person has no idea why or for how long. Using webhooks we can share this information with the user and give them an appeals channel, I just need to put the finishing touches on it.


Interaction reminder (help support the instance!)

If you’re new to Lemmy.zip - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

I am sure that long term readers are bored of reading this now, but it is really is true that the easiest way you can support Lemmy.zip is to actively engage with content here: upvoting content you enjoy, sharing your thoughts through posts and comments, sparking meaningful discussions, or even creating new communities that resonate with your interests.

It’s natural to see fluctuations in user activity over time, and we’ve seen this over the wider lemmy-verse for some time now. However, if you’ve found a home here and love this space, now is the perfect opportunity to help us thrive.

If you want to support us in a different way than financially, then actively interacting with the instance helps us out loads.

If you've gone to the trouble of creating an account, then come and be part of the Fediverse! Please don't be a lurker! :)


Donations

Lemmy.zip only continues to exist because of the generous donations of its users. The operating cost of Lemmy.zip is over 50 euros a month ($54, £43) and is mostly funded by the community!

We keep all the details around donations on our OpenCollective page, with full transparency around income and expenditure.

If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the site and keeping the virtual lights on.

We've also put up a link to our Ko-Fi page where you can donate via paypal instead of using a card. All Ko-Fi donations will be totalled up and added to OpenCollective each month for transparency. I've added a link in the sidebar, but you can also click the image below to go there:

We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too!


It's Graph Time!

As I missed the update for last month, these graphs are over 60 days instead of the usual 30 days.

CPU:

RAM: (The drops here coincide with the server/database container being restarted.)

Storage: (Yeah that one is pretty boring)

Here are things right now as I type this:

Image storage:

And now for Cloudflare stats (which are back to 30 days)

Requests:

Bandwidth:

Unique visitors:

Region traffic:

(as a reminder, Lemmy.world and lemm.ee are hosted in Finland - as is Lemmy.zip! - which is why we see so much traffic from there.)

Anyway, that's it for now.

As always, if there is anything you'd like me to add to these going forward, let me know! Otherwise I hope everyone has nice November and I'll see you again in December :)

Cheers,

Demigodrick

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Demigodrick to c/announcements
 

Time for a quick bit of maintenance, including a server reboot. During the reboot, you may not be able to connect to Lemmy.zip, which shouldn't last for more than a couple of minutes.

If there are any surprises and the maintenance needs to be extended, I'll update status.lemmy.zip and the matrix chat.

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