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Test post in c/nothingtoseehere@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Under 30 seconds

federation latency test in c/nothingtoseehere@walledgarden.xyz
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. in c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the plan. More than likely a final post in each community with a link to its new home will be stickied as well.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Early on we were experimenting with trying to offer everything on the fediverse from a Lemmy instance. A lot of changes and tweaks were made to try to make that work before it was abandoned. There's a lot of leftover bloat from that project that we've been trying to deal with without too much impact to the Lemmy instance but for the size of the instance it makes more sense to start over than to spend even more time trying to undo the wrongs of the past. There isn't a specific cautionary tale here besides "don't go public with things that you hope to fix later."

More recently we've had issues with our registrar or DNS pop up that no one seems to have answers for yet, so sometimes the domain itself isn't reachable. One problem or the other might not be a huge deal in the short term but together they make for a miserable time trying to sort things out. Moving the traffic to a known good config will help me maintain sanity while dealing with the issues at WG.

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
6 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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Ongoing Site Maintenance Update - Testing paused while things catch up. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

TLDR UPDATE: Lemmy.world is ~9hrs behind and catching back up. We won't be making any more changes until this is completed.

Original Post:

Please be aware that we are undergoing some maintenance and configuration testing with our host. Instance performance may be a little unstable.

As some of you may know we've been troubleshooting sync issues with several instances but mainly lemmy.world. After a week of experimenting we were able to get everything caught back up and we are now working to optimize instance performance in a way that maintains the sync. The short explanation is that lemmy.world is running an older version of Lemmy that only processes about half the information an instance on a more modern build of Lemmy does per exchange. This leads to a problem where you must be able to match the sending rate of the largest instance or else they fall out of sync and eventually cause more problems as it falls further behind.

There may be a couple of extended restarts over the next couple days as we adjust and readjust to get things right. As always feel free to report any problems here or via DM. Your patience is always greatly appreciated, thank you.

Music active communities active last week in c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
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PSA - Broken title suggestions and link preview thumbnails (walledgarden.xyz)
 

Hello again,

Some unfortunate news to pass along this time. As the title implies WG is suffering from an issue that has broken automatic title lookups/suggestions and preview thumbnails for posts. This coincided with our update to Lemmy 19.9. After confirming things were working correctly with our host we are now investigating the issue further. Our host believes it may be a bug with the latest Lemmy buiild but since this was a security update it would be unwise to roll back to 19.8.

I'll try to keep this post updated with anything new as more information is available. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Community Clean Up (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

Hello again,

Today we'll be doing some database management and pruning some of the communities that are obviously abandoned or inactive. We're prioritizing the removal of communities that our members aren't subscribed to so the impact to most of you should be minimal. If we happen to remove a community you were subscribed by accident you should be able to resubscribe to them without issue.

This maintenance will be happening off and on over the next several days. Expect an instance restart or two here and there. The restarts only take a few seconds so if you run into an error just give it a second or two and try again.

As always feel free to report any wonky behavior here or DM me. Thanks for your patience.

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!pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz is the place to talk about and trade cards from the pokemonTCGP mobile game! (walledgarden.xyz)
 

Sorry, I completely forgot to announce !pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz here when I launched it.

Now trading is here and we're having fun swapping cards. Come check us out!

Bonus Links

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz

https://walledgarden.xyz/c/pokemonTCGM

Pokémon communities around the fediverse in c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I completely forgot to announce !pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz when I launched it.

Now trading is here and we're having fun swapping cards. Come check us out!

Bonus Links

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz

https://walledgarden.xyz/c/pokemonTCGM

I'm a 6'1" (185 cm) man with stupidly small size 3 US (EU 34) feet. I've never met another adult with smaller feet than me. It makes me look like a reverse hobbit. in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this with us!

Do you find that others notice it regularly in your daily life? I feel like I only notice other people's shoes/feet if they are wearing something flashy or if they make a lot of noise like flip flops.

The new FIA penalties for swearing, insults and political statements in c/formula1@lemmy.world
Alessandro Alunni Bravi to join McLaren from Kick Sauber ahead of 2025 season in c/formula1@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Sauber is on cruise control until Audi takes over.

Ricky : "Radio check" Lewis : "Wow! Whew! Hehe. Its uh... wow that was amazing." in c/formula1@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Ayyyyy happy Lewis is back!

The life in c/TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
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EDIT: Maintenance completed. Thank you for your patience. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

Hello all,

We're adding additional resources to the server and making some configuration changes today that will require a brief restart or two. During the restarts you may be unable to use your local account, and our communities and hosted images may be briefly unavailable. The restarts should come and go within a few minutes of this post.

Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for understanding.

This is super basic but I need to find a better email option in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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