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).

    • AdaMAEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      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

        • AdaMAEnglish
          16·
          1 year ago

          Looking at the 0.18 release, it has had captcha removed, so we aren’t going to be able to upgrade just yet. We will have to wait until 18.1 when they will bring captcha back

        • AdaMAEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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

      • isoEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Jerboa still seems to work with this instance though

        source: typing this comment on upgraded Jerboa

        Edit: nevermind it crashes when I try to upvote a comment, of all things

        • canEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          A forked version. Lemur was abandoned. Lemmynade was just renamed LiftOff actually. Posting this comment from it.