Hello from sunny England! How was your morning?

We have a few updates on how things are running, and things coming down the pipe.

How things are running:

Migration to the new server

We are pleased to announce that this is now complete.

  • Everything is now a little calmer, and hopefully a little faster too.
  • Tom has been able to switch off the old server, and no longer has to pay for it, which I'm sure he's very happy about.
  • I still need to knit in a few days worth of missing images. It's a single command, but it deserves a time when I can give it full focus.
  • We have more CSAM protection
  • Custom interfaces for the site have not been migrated, as we wanted to rebuild them from scratch.
  • Due to the storage ballooning, sensible restrictions on images are now in place.
  • Email encountered a few hiccups, but should now be delivering password resets and verifications.

As always, if there are any other issues noted, drop us a line.
Either in this community, on the matrix channel, or by messaging myself or Emperor.
I would also like to take this chance to thank flamingos-cant for their hard work behind the scenes!

What's coming next:

Financials and donations

We know people have been keen to support the community for a while, and we're pleased to announce...that we're aiming to announce it later this week.
We did not want to remove Tom's link until he was able to pull the plug on the old server. That is now done.
We'll go into more detail later this week, but we're looking to offer both regular and one-off contributions, and lots of clarity as to how the money is used.

More moderators

We are keen for popular communities to have more than one moderator.
This is absolutely not a requirement.
Mods, if you would like new people, pop a post on the community, or message us for ideas.
Community members, if you think you could help, message the community mods.

Slurs and profanity

The best part of any moderators day: Wading through reported and unreported posts, then trying to work out what is and isn't ok.
Especially since certain words are and aren't acceptable depending on context, or intent of the poster.

We're considering a 3 tier system. Yes, Maybe, No.

Yes: Probably 99% of the English language.
Also includes non-discriminatory expletives.
Things you might say after banging your shin.
The slur filter will not limit these words, and we will not be using autodetection.

Maybe: Words that are maybe OK, depending on context/intent.
The slur filter will not block these words, but use of a word will trigger a flag for review of the post/account.

No: Slur filter will just remove.

We'll discuss this further in the future, if you would like to chat about it here, try to keep it to one thread :)

A few upgrades behind the scenes

We'll be scheduling some downtime in the near future to upgrade the picture serving system, hopefully adding a few extra interfaces (old.feddit.uk, anyone?)

As always, any questions, suggestions, pop them in a reply to this post.

Cheers, GreatAlbatross.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    I would also like to take this chance to thank flamingos-cant for their hard work behind the scenes!

    And I'd like to thank GA for their hard work as they were on point with flamingos riding shotgun. I was cheerleading from the sidelines and can attest to the fact that the transfer could very easily gone wrong without their knowledge and experience. Plus turning it on and off again, which does work. And that was just the moving of the site which, at a couple of hours, was relatively swift compared to shifting 300 GB of images which was chugging away in the background before and after the site move for over a week.

    So, like a duck, it looked smooth above the surface but there was some serious activity going on below.

    Everything should now be a lot more stable and, with the future assured we can crack on with making this a great instance and we'll be looking into expanding what we can do because the new server gives us a lot more flexibility.