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).
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! 🙌👏
Thanks Kaiity and Ada for all your hard work on this!!!
I have a confession to make, and I think it’s hilarious.
I was out of the loop as to what Blåhaj was, and seeing it written as blahaj in the URLs, I thought it had something to do with the fitness youtuber Jason Blaha.
That said, this looks like an amazing community. I wish everyone all the best!
I know a lot of things are up in the air right now, but do you guys have a guesstimate for server costs? I think beehaw was looking at 1-2k per year.
We’re running at around 800 a month at the moment, but that’s with 4 instances, none of which are sharing hardware anymore. That being said, we’re deliberately over resourced at the moment until lemmy and kbin settle down and we get a better feel for what they need.
Thanks for the update!
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Y’all are the best. 💜
Thanks Kaity.
Since the upgrade I get
SytaxError string does not match the expected pattern when I try to upload an image
any idea?All fixed!
Nice!
hey yeah same
Also having that issue here, and thumbnails on the site are completely broken for me.
Thanks you two! 💖
yay! thx for ur hard work Kaity and Ada! i know that sudden large waves of new users can cause a lot of stress when running servers and platforms like this, it’s awesome of u folks to provide this space for lgbtq+ folk
also, sorry if this is not an appropriate place to ask, but you mentioned running these instances to “support your community” and when i signed up here i also signed up for the Calckey instance cuz i had been thinking about trying out Calckey for a while and figured i may as well. i was wondering last night while browsing on the Calckey instance if ya’ll are running an established community around something you do otherwise that has existed for a while or if it’s fairly new and has grown mostly because of the Reddit migrators. i noticed an announcement on the Calckey instance that mentioned something about your other projects, which is another reason i’m wondering. mostly im wondering, is there like a Discord or (better for me) a Matrix, Revolt, or Guilded? or anything like that? or when you mention other projects are you mostly referencing, like, software and stuff that you’ve developed? in which case also, is there a place i can check it out?
i joined here as a reddit user looking for alternatives and im a socialist and anarchist and lgbtq+ so this seemed like a fitting instance for me lol but this community seems neat and if there’s more places to interact with it or engage with ya’ll’s content i’m interested in learning more basically x3
Blahaj Zone isn’t attached to any particular community before it.
We currently run a Friendica instance, a Calckey/Hajkey instance and a Lemmy instance. We have a kbin instance that should hopefully be turned on later today.
Project wise, aside from our instances, the main project is Hajkey itself.
We don’t have a discord community or the like, but there is nothing stopping you from spinning up an unofficial one if you like. I used to be active on Discord (and previously owned the TransLater discord community), but Discord has lost its shine for me recently.
okay, awesome thx :3
idk if i will create one, i don’t really like running stuff, but i’d probably join a chat community if someone else does. especially if it’s on Matrix or Revolt!
Was wondering why it was returning HTTP 500. Great its up and running and improved w
Thank you both for all your work into this community!:)
Thanks for the update and thanks for all the work you’re doing to give everyone on this server a great home in the fediverse 😄
Thanks! 😆
I’m getting this error on jerboa, could it be possible that you guys update the server?
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
According to https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3090#issuecomment-1591055551, it seems to have worked
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
So good news is that captcha support was merged so its definitely coming with 0.18.1; which just had its first release candidate so things are looking positive that’ll happen rather quickly.
Cheers!
I’m also getting this error on Jerboa, For now I’m just using Lemmynade
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
Is that lemmur?
A forked version. Lemur was abandoned. Lemmynade was just renamed LiftOff actually. Posting this comment from it.