I appreciate the effort in creating and maintaining this Lemmy instance. I don’t have any long-term involvement with or knowledge of FMHY beyond finding lemmy.fmhy.ml when I was leaving reddit, agreeing with the community values, and making an account. But I have appreciated this place as my portal to the fediverse, and there’s nowhere else I’d rather be.
As there have clearly been some issues in maintaining the instance, I think it would be extremely helpful if you were to create a simple blog to act as an out of band communication channel in the event that the Lemmy instance faces any further troubles. I understand you have divolt, but I have had trouble accessing it after initially joining, and in general it would be nice if there were a simple URL I could navigate to from any device with or without my credentials memorized/use of my password manager to see the status or any events that may impact the functionality of the FMHY Lemmy. If you have something of this nature set up already and I have missed it - that’s on me! But perhaps a stickied post pointing to it would help.
That’s just my two cents - and again, thank you for creating and maintaining this instance in the first place!
The biggest problem with having other platforms is:
If you can suggest a good platform that meets the last two, then maybe. But it’s pretty unlikely we’ll have another one. (I mean, Lemmy itself is already having problems and I’m pretty much the only person on it now, adding another platform isn’t gonna help with that.)
If we are talking about a simple platform to make announcements, you don’t need interactivity. That means you can go with the simplest option of all, which is in my mind a blog. I don’t know what your web hosting setup is like, but if you are running a vps you could configure your web server software to serve up a blog on a subdomain. Other than the issues with the ml TLD your site seems to have remained stable and available (unless I have just missed it going down). I’d reccomend Jekyll for its combination of simplicity, light weight, zero overhead and ease of use.
Is there a criteria I am missing or misunderstanding? Or a feature of your hosting setup that makes this not doable?
Edit: that might come across as pushy, which isn’t my intention! Even if it is doable with your setup I obviously have no place trying to demand that you do it, so please don’t take it that way
Ah, I thought you were suggesting another platform like Lemmy and Divolt. For announcements I’m thinking of adding a simple status page hosted on GH pages or on the server this is running on (but I’m waiting on the other staff members for their thoughts.) For wiki updates, Reddit still exists.
We started running an Uptime Kuma instance on M4D’s servers. I’ll post any status notices there.
Nice!