Happy new year and > 1000 members
First off, happy new year to everyone 😊
We also surpassed 1000 members on slrpnk.net near the end of last month. This is a nice milestone and another reason to celebrate.
While we had some server issues last month and also did not yet upgrade to the latest version of Lemmy (due to federation bugs with it), we can still welcome more users in 2024.
Of course the actually active number of users is quite a bit lower, as many of the Reddit migrants did not stick around. But I think we managed to get a healthy number of regular posters and our communities are also well subscribed to in the larger Fediverse.
I also managed to promote our instance a bit on the 37C3 congress in Hamburg a few days ago. Great Fediverse presence there and good solarpunk vibes as well.
New moderators / communities
We got two new communities in recent weeks that seem to be quite popular:
- @toaster@slrpnk.net started !asksolarpunk@slrpnk.net
- @activistPnk@slrpnk.net started !climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net
Technical updates
Besides the upcoming upgrade to Lemmy 0.19.x we thought a bit about other services to host. One idea is a collaborative text editor, for which the new Hedgedocs2 alpha is being tested on https://docs.slrpnk.net (BEWARE users and documents might be wiped without notice during the test period). We will update you when this service stabilizes sufficiently and also if we find a way to integrate accounts with the main Lemmy user database like we do for the XMPP & Movim service. Stay tuned 👍
Open discussion
As always, this is your thread. You’re welcome to comment about any meta stuff you don’t think is big enough for its own post. New communities, Lemmy or Movim issues, personal news, and questions for the community will be visible to the entire community here through the month of January.
I didn’t notice and neither did our (admittably a bit too coarse) status checker: https://health.f-hub.org/endpoints/hosted_slrpnk-net-lemmy
We still automatically restart the backend once a day because of database memory issues and since 0.19.x it takes a bit longer to get back up it seems.
I’ve noticed it but it seemed to me that it was taken down completely, because, this isn’t the only instance I’m part of that I was not being able to reach out for some reason.