Hello everyone. I hope you’re having/about to have an enjoyable weekend!
A quick update to let you all know the server had a significant upgrade yesterday. While you may notice things are a little more zippy, the need for added performance was definitely not the main driver for the upgrade. The main reason was the ever-increasing size of the database, which had left us dangerously close to a full disk!
Unfortunately, this means our monthly server costs have almost doubled, and while I haven’t been open to accepting donations in the past, we have now passed a cost threshold where I feel it is appropriate. To this end, I have added a couple of donation options to the sidebar. Donate, don’t donate, it’s entirely up to you. I appreciate everyone’s circumstances are different, and nothing is expected from you.
In other news, we also updated to the latest Lemmy 0.19.10 version yesterday. 🎉
While this is a fairly minor update, with most development now focused on the next major version, it does introduce the ability to delete PMs along with other content when a user is banned, which is a major QoL improvement for admins. Importantly, it means no more manually deleting Nicole’s flirtatious PMs from the database…
You can see changes and follow the discussion in the 0.19.10 thread.