Due to the increasing amount of storage requirements for this instance, we decided to clean out any photos / thumbnails from disk that were over a year old. We didn’t realize at the time that this included profile pictures and banners, therefore, you may need to reupload yours if they seem to be problematic.

Our apologies, and in the future, we’ll announce such activities ahead of time.

All of the primary Lemmy services have been updated as part of this maintenance.

PosgreSQL database: 15 -> 16
pict-rs image repository: 0.4 -> 0.5
Lemmy: 0.19.3 -> 0.19.5

Also, as part of the migration, the pict-rs image repository’s backend has been migrated from its internal sled-repo database to the shared PostgreSQL database, which will simplify backup and recovery in the future.

Please report any issues on this post or a new post in !support@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz.

Thanks for your patience as we work to improve your Lemmy experience.

We’ll be taking the instance down for maintenance at 4PM UTC on Saturday 9 August. Use this to convert to your local time.

The instance will be upgraded to Lemmy 0.19.5, which requires upgrading several other services Lemmy relies on.

The maintenance window will be 5 hours

We ran into some unexpected issues upgrading the instance to the latest Lemmy version, and troubleshooting was starting to take too long and extend past the previously given maintenance window. As such, we decided to restore from backup and attempt the upgrade again another day, next time with a larger maintenance window.

Everything should be back as it was before the downtime. The next maintenance will be announced soon.

Thanks for your patience!

We’ll be taking the instance down for maintenance at 2PM UTC on Saturday 29 June. Use this to convert to your local time.

The instance will be upgraded to Lemmy 0.19.5, which requires upgrading several other services Lemmy relies on.

The maintenance window will be 3 hours

The storage backend for the instance has been upgraded, which means the instance should be faster by quite a bit. It also enables a few new data resiliency features, which is pretty cool. Hopefully we don’t need them, but better safe than sorry!

Please report any issues on this post or a new post in !support@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz.

Thanks for your patience as we work to improve your Lemmy experience.

We’ll be taking the instance down for maintenance at 6PM UTC on Friday, 22 Dec. Use this to convert to your local time.

This maintenance is due to a much-needed storage upgrade, which will hopefully speed up the instance quite a bit. The maintenance window will be 3 hours to account for full system backup and restore, but I’m hoping we’ll be done quicker than that.

We are now running Lemmy 0.19! There were a lot of cool changes in this release, definitely check out the release notes if you’re interested in the specifics.

The important ones for users are:

1. Improved Post Ranking - Scaled sort! This is similar to Reddit’s Hot sort, that is, ranking is based on the proportion of votes to active users, not just votes. This will greatly improve visibility for small communities, which is great!

2. Instance Blocking for Users - Users can now block entire instances themselves. If there’s an instance you personally dislike but doesn’t technically break our instance rules, you’re now free to block it yourself.

3. Two Factor Rework - Enabling 2FA is now a two-step process, so it’s harder to lock yourself out.

There may be breakage depending on what Lemmy client you use, so be sure your client supports the breaking changes in 0.19.

In the interest of transparency, we’re announcing the implementation of defed list synchronization from Fediseer.

Fediseer is a community of fediverse instances that work together to crowdsource classification of both safe and harmful fediverse instances. This instance has just recently been “guaranteed”, which means a member of the Fediseer community has sponsored us to join them. You can see details of our Fediseer presence here.

This enables a couple of things.

• This instance’s admins can now guarantee, endorse, or censure other instances.
• We can implement block list synchronization with our endorsed instances.
• Block list synchronization can be filtered by tags.

Given this instance’s stance towards censorship, we’ve been hesitant to implement block list synchronization, as we don’t want to block an instance prematurely. However, given the recent influx of loli / pedo content creeping in, we feel it’s in the best interest of this instance to at least synchronize blocking by loli and pedo tags.

So going forward, we will sync block lists with our endorsed instances’ block lists filtered by loli and pedo tags. We’ll also include spam tags, since there’s been an influx of that, too.

As always, comments and questions welcome.

We’ll be taking the server down for general maintenance at 5PM UTC on Monday, 23 Oct. Shouldn’t last more than an hour.

Use this to convert to your local time.