crystals.rest [meta]

We have some bad news. I've had to rollback to the the 9th. We are running out of disk space and I tried all kind of things to free up space, and they all are not working. The best I can do is remove certain communities and try and prune when I can, but I don't know what to do at this point.

The only way is to I guess upgrade space, but I don't know how long that will last. I'd like some thoughts about it, I guess.

So trying to diagnose the issue, it seems there are spam spikes from outside of our server, but in trying to federate with these events, it starts running our CPU of the server at 100% and errors out. When I restart it during that, it seems to have issues and I have to rollback.

Thankfully, we had a rollback from last night this time, but for now that means I will be removing the largest non-art communities that would get spammed, such as memes, news, and politics from the large big servers. This means that this instance will probably be more useful just for art only for the time being. Many mobile clients allow you to login to multiple accounts on different servers, so you may need to do that to get better access to non-niche content.

There will be an eventual lemmy update that will create a federation queue that addresses this, but for now, we have to work with what we have.

I've hit some kind of roadblock with not being able to update things because the server itself is running out of space, causing me being unable to update things. So for this reason I rolled back the server, losing some recent posts.

As such, I will be banning and purging history of some of the biggest and most active meme subs. I do not wish to limit your access to these subs, I enjoy them too, but I feel it's more important to be able to browse our art sections rather than meme things, where you could try a different account on a bigger and more supported instance.

It is also now time that I will have to pay for the servers, the free account trial has run out. I should be able to cover it, but if you'd like to help out, there is always my ko-fi should you choose! The cost of a month of the server is only $10 with backups, so not much is needed.

Well I think I've done that right! Even though it wasn't actually 8 hours later, whoops. We should be all good. Here's the information on the release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

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I've been told the next update will take ~10 minutes to go, so I wanted to give you guys a heads up. I will start getting it ready in 8 hours from now!

It also mean the theme is majorly borked now, but I'm gonna work on it! There should be lots of nice improvements.

Here's what all changed: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.1

We're going to open registrations again! We'll see if the captcha deals with the bot problem.

------ Original --------- There's been a slow trickle of bots that are using vague entry prompts. For this reason registration will be closed, but just contact me through any means with any link to your creative works or vtubers you like, and say cat!

So just contact me through any of social listed here or, [email protected] , or matrix at [email protected] if you would like in.