Registration requirements

I’ve had to ban multiple vile accounts this morning. It seems this instance has found itself on the radar of trolls.

To that end, sign-ups now require users to fill in a questionnaire prior to joining. I always thought it was lame, and it won’t really prevent a troll account from joining, but it would slow them down, and likely cause them to find another easier-to-join instance.

Upgrade

I shall be upgrading the instance to 0.19.4 0.19.5 this afternoon on Friday morning, so expect a little downtime

I’ll unpin this notice once the update is complete.

Edit: Unfortunately work got in the way of me performing the update today, so postponing this to first thing tomorrow morning.

Cached images

We use the standard group of services for Lemmy, including the pict-rs image/thumbnail cache. This image cache grew to 700G recently and continues to grow as Lemmy grows. Therefore some effort has been made to keep it under control.

Cached images from other instances are now only kept for 90-days. This doesn’t remove the original image.

  • lazyadmin@lazysoci.alOPM
    2·
    1 day ago

    Update has been completed. A few months ago I foolishly updated to a beta version, and this introduced database changes that are not part of the standard migration path. So of course, the standard migration scripts that get run on startup failed, and I’m left with a broken instance.

    Luckily some others had the same issue and this was discussed at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4641#issuecomment-2071033771

    I had two functions of the same name when the migration script was only expecting the one. So I removed the one that didn’t match the expected function body, and the migraton worked.

    I also wanted to migrate pict-rs from the disk-based SLED database to its own PostGres instance, but at the rate it was going, it was going to take 4 hours. The server its running on is full NVMe, enterprise hardware (Dell Poweredge) but its getting on a bit (I’ll be purchasing a newer server for the datacenter later this year).

    I shall retry the pict-rs migration in the next few days but it will mean an extended downtime.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
      2·
      1 day ago

      Thank you for your hard work. The pict-rs thing sounds like a pain. But if the instance drops, I’ll know that’s what you’re doing. Probably best to do it overnight.

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
    2·
    4 days ago

    Wait, you’re British too? 😱

    Looking forward to the update. Though you may wanna go for 0.19.5 rather than .4 as there was a bug.

    Thank you for your continued hard work. This instance makes for a lovely home.