Demigodrick

Just wanted to post a quick confirmation that the site has updated to 0.19.11.

I'll be keeping an eye on the site over the next hour or so, but if you notice anything wrong please let me know.

Thanks Demigodrick

Hello all,

Attempt two to update to Lemmy 0.19.11 is now planned in for tomorrow, April 12th at 13:00 BST (that's 12:00 UTC!)

Following feedback from the downtime thread, information can be found on the upgrade in these places:

• Matrix - We have a Matrix space you can join by clicking here. This is likely where I'll be most active during the update.

• Status Page - Following the failure of our old status page to actually detect any downtime, I've swapped to a different status page supplier temporarily while I review the options. Uptime Kuma was great (and free, and self hosted) but let us down. Our status page has now been updated, and I've included the maintenance on there. If there are any unforseen issues, I will add them there.

• Mastodon - I have a mastodon account which you can view by clicking here and I will make a couple of posts here as and when things are happening too. You can get a mastodon.zip account too by clicking here!

There will absolutely be downtime again, but I cannot predict how long this will be. Some sources say 8 to 10 minutes, but during our last attempt the migrations took significantly longer, so it may be a few hours its down for.

Obviously there will be a backup, and if anything does go wrong again then we'll roll back.

Fingers crossed this time :)

Thanks

Demigodrick

Probably a two hour window to give me time to get things done. There may be an upgrade to lemmy 0.19.11 however that requires some modification of ZippyBot due to changes in the new version.

There will be downtime while the server is restarted, however hopefully this is brief.

Thanks

Demigodrick

Hello all,

It's that time of the month again!

Unfortunately we didn't have chance to do an April Fools this year (besides, reality is weird enough in itself) - as mentioned at the end of the last update I was expecting a child, who has safely arrived and is amazing, whilst also ruining my sleep schedule and eating all of my free time!

I am sneaking a few minutes in though, to write this as they sleep!

Communities

We've had loads of new communities this month, so I'll highlight certain ones to keep the list a bit more manageable:

• Language Settings
• Fields of Mistria
• Sim Racing
• Foundation
• Planet Coaster
• Kingdoms Reborn
• TF2 Weapon Ideas
• Automation and Factory Builder Games

Server Update

In terms of actual lemmy.zip development, things have been a little quieter. We updated to 0.19.10 when it was released - Changelog here, and we've implemented a couple of ways of trying to filter out Nicole PMs. If anything, its pushed me to learn new ways of interacting with Lemmy to harden the moderation support capabilities of Zippy. Before 0.19.10 was released, you may have noticed a PM in your inbox with something along the lines of "Removed by Admin" if Zippy picked up Nicole spam - with the introduction of 0.19.10, PMs are deleted when we ban an account, so you won't need to see that anymore.

And that's it really - Sami and Druid have done a fantastic job keeping on top of applications and mod reports, and hopefully everything will continue to run smoothly :)

I will schedule some small maintenance downtime when I get a chance, but I'll give plenty of notice.

Please don't be a lurker!

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 60 euros a month ($60, £50) 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!

Please remember, traditional social media is only "free" to you because they sell your data. We don't do that - if you want to support independent social websites like this one and you value your privacy, please consider a small donation. It really does help.

Graphs

It's all you're really here for anyway ;)

CPU:

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Cloudflare overview:

Requests:

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Unique visitors:

Traffic:

Apologies, bit of a shorter one than usual, but I am severely sleep deprived! (and will moan about it at every opportunity)

As always please let me know if there is anything you'd like to see me include in these, otherwise I'll be back next month with another one!

Thanks

Demigodrick

I sincerely hope they win

Hi All,

Needing to do some image migration, so for a short while images will be offline. Cloudflare might cache a few for a bit, but new posts won't have them.

Quite rare these days I need to do this level of maintenance but hopefully once complete, the site will be a bit speedier and we'll be in a better position long term.

There's currently about 400gb of images so this work should help alleviate some pressure on the system.

Thanks

Demigodrick

~~Edit: Quick calc says this could take over 8 hours :(~~

Edit 2: 6 hours later it's 41% done, so my maths is way out. There's like 10 more hours to go? Sigh.

I just can't believe it. How is it time to turn everything off and back on again already?

Anyway, at 18:00(ish, give me a break) UTC tomorrow (or today if you're reading this tomorrow) I'll be doing just that.

There will be downtime because everything will be off. I expect no longer than 5 minutes downtime, but then if I get transported to an alternate dimension and have to wage war against an alien invasion to get home, things might take a smidge longer.

There will be backups, there will be docker pulls. There might even be space lasers.

Demigodrick

Hi All,

Latest Lemmy update has been applied.

You can get more info in what has changed in this post.

Let me know if you notice any issues!

Thanks

Demigodrick