Hey everyone,
I’m your local server godess. I usually sit in the background doing things, while my lovely partner @ada does her thing moderating the server, but I do pop in every now and then to let you know when important things happen like the server gets an upgrade etc.
So earlier today we were running a slightly old version of lemmy on the same hardware as the database server, which started causing problems as our instance has grown significantly over the last few days.
So tonight we’re running a freshly upgraded lemmy 0.17.4, moved onto its own dedicated server instance.
Hopefully this should resolve the issues we were having and let me or Ada know if you notice any issues or glitches.
Also Ada has relented and setup a ko-fi donations page for those that want to donate AND can afford it.
We want to stress that we are running these instances to support our community, so the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.
If you’re privileged enough to be able to help with a donation without causing yourself financial stress, you’re welcome to help cover some of the running costs. But if you’re not, please do not feel any obligation to do so as that would undermine the goal behind creating these spaces in the first place. We’d rather keep covering the costs ourselves than pull funds away from the members of our community that need it.
Lots of love! Kaity (and Ada).
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Just tossed in 5 bucks. Thanks for running this instance.
Donated! Would be willing to share what the current monthly costs look like?
We’re paying around $800 a month at the moment, but that is for 4 over resourced servers and storage for four separate instances. We are very much not looking to recoup all of that cost from donations, and it also doesn’t represent our final monthly costs once things have settled down with reddit migrations. For now, we’re trying to avoid things falling over if we get another wave.
Thank you for the response! I intend to continue donating as I participate in the community over time.
Thanks Kaiity and Ada for all your hard work on this!!!
I’m very happy I found out about all this today, and did my part. Thanks for everything <3
Wohoo donations!
thank you, local server goddess c:
Praise be server goddess and the pantheon that makes this community possible.
Thanks you two! 💖
Not sure if this comment will post, because when I try to post on the community I mod, it just spins indefinitely and never actually posts. Currently using my Calckey account to post replies…
Okay weird. It actually posted successfully in this thread. Further research shows that the issue is, non-Lemmy users (from mastodon or calckey) can reply to a topic, but then a Lemmy user can’t reply to those replies.
the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.
Imo you’re shouldering server stress so the least I, and those who can afford to donate, donate. Thanks!
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We’ll be upgrading to 0.18 soon. I’m just trying to find confirmation that the latest 0.18 release candidate fixes the frozen hot/active sort issue before we invest the time required
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To be clear, you can’t log on because of a mistake by the Jerboa devs in releasing that version, not because of our server version.
We will be upgrading to the 0.18.1 RC as soon as our other admin is feeling up to it, however she just got out of hospital with several broken bones, so it may be a few days away still
Thank you both for all your work into this community!:)
Big shoutout to our local server goddess @supakaity@lemmy.blahaj.zone and moderation champion @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone! They keep blahaj.zone running smoothly and bigotry-free. We appreciate all their hard work and dedication. You both rock! 🙌👏
woo!
