So after we’ve extended the virtual cloud server twice, we’re at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.
Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.
So the bad news… we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )
For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon
Thanks!
To add to this, you can use exclamation point “!” To link people to communities in a way that won’t take them away from their home instance. Likewise you can use @ for users.
Example: !eli5@lemmy.blahaj.zone Or: @Soullioness@lemmy.world
This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.
I’m working on a Firefox extension to add a link going to your home instance.
for a while it will result in a lot of seemingly dead links as small communities will appear as 404s until the remote instance has synced.
Or at least that’s what i’m seeing occasionally when I try to copy/paste the communites onto my instances /c/ URL.
Making links agnostic is an open PR which will be implemented eventually.
right I was just testing it and it auto fills with absolute path using “!”. Using “@” I could only link local communities