admin

Server showed as online on the hosting provider dashboard but it wasn't responding. After contacting support, this was fixed at some point.

This led to a config file being reverted because of a setting I didn't change earlier which led to the page only showing "Server error."

Everything should work again and in the future that config file shouldn't change by itself anymore. I still have no idea what the problem on the providers side was, let's hope it doesn't happen again :P

There is a lot we can do but it might become a bit spammy if we add too much. Some ideas would be:

• Monero ecosystem releases (Monero, GUI, Haveno, Serai, etc) either in a special releases community or the regular Monero one
• DarknetLive posts to the darknet community
• Crypto news to the cryptocurrency community

All of these feeds are of high quality and shouldn't completely spam us.

What do you think? Any other suggestions?

Edit 2: This has been replaced with a bot that posts way more reliably, as well as locally to the instance.

~~#### Edit: This doesn't seem to work that well, will be upgraded soon.~~

~~Posts made to r/Monero can now be seen on monero.town by subscribing to [email protected] 🎉~~

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The original was posted on /r/monero by /u/monerobull on 2023-07-10 19:36:45+00:00.

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If this works as planned, this post should show up in the feed of https://monero.town/, a monero-focused Lemmy instance.

Comments made on either the reddit or Lemmy side don't get synced, just the post itself.

If you can see this post on .town, congratulations, you don't have to visit reddit anymore 🥳

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This instance doesn't share its backend with monero.town, in fact, it runs on an entirely different (and way less reliable) server.

Edit: Subscriptions aren't working since remote instances don't know where to send their posts (doesn't work with onion addresses). This means that only manually searched posts actually show up, making the whole instance pretty useless ._.

~~You can still view monero.town and the rest of the fediverse through federation. You can either put communities into the searchbar and subscribe to them (Example [email protected]) or put entire links to posts from other instances into it to make them show up here.~~

Since this instance is on Tor, it can federate inwards (pull content from other lemmy servers) but CAN'T federate outwards (interacting with posts on other servers). You can still comment and vote but only people on this instance will be able to see this. You are essentially siloed with a one-way window into the outside world.

For now, registration is open because I don't want to manage applications on two instances at once. Don't abuse this or it will be shut.

Matrix join the matrix room for live discussions/questions: #monero.town:monero.social

Here is the changelog.

This upgrade brings a ton of bugfixes and performance improvements.

It also broke the nice custom theme we had 😅 I'll try to iron this out but for the time being we will change back to a default theme.

I hope everyone here is having a great time on Lemmy!

As some of you may have noticed, monero.town was only available for people signed into a Lemmy mobile app for the past few days.

It looks like the Lemmy software had a bug that was exploited to DoS instances which of course happened on evening #1 of Monerokon. In an attempt to fix this DoS issue, I upgraded to Lemmy version 18 which required additional, badly documented changes to the config. Since I didn't have a laptop with me, there wasn't all that much I could do besides the initial analysis. That is why it took until today for me to fix the issue. I hope this wasn't too big of an inconvenience to anyone 😅

Lemmy is still very new software and these are some of the growing pains. Please be reassured that I won't randomly abandon monero.town and will do my very best to never have to do another migration like house->town again.

The default theme now fills more of the screen on desktop and makes it easier to follow comment chains.

If you are logged in, you can now select from three new Monero-colored themes:

• Lemmy_Orange
• Lemmy_Orange_dark
• Monero-Town_dark

In case you didn't know, Lemmy let's you use all kinds of custom themes via browser-exertions if you don't like the current selection. You can check out some pre-made ones here :)

Storage is one of the biggest concerns in regards to instance resource usage, the new config should significantly improve storage efficiency via the following:

• Uploads are now limited to a maximum of 1 MB
• All uploads will now automatically be converted to the webp format and original file is discarded