Hey all,

That time of the week again, and it is time to see how things have been going over the last week (and a bit)!

In case you’ve not read them, and want some light Sunday reading:
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7

TL;DR

  • Small Lemmy update to 0.18.4
  • Small uptime wins
  • Change to front-end clients
  • Administration & Defederation policy
  • Funding
  • Interaction
  • Stats

Lemmy updated to 0.18.4

We quietly updated to 0.18.4 following its release. Only minor changes to comments and misc fixes, with no changes to the database, so we were pretty confident about this one not crashing the server! Thankfully we had 0 downtime and the update was applied seamlessly.

Uptime wins

Previously we’ve been having issues with the server spiking and crashing, the DB locking up and causing the back-end to freeze, and general odd behaviour. Many other instances faced these issues too. I’m glad to say over the last week (and a bit) we’ve had 100% uptime since the upgrade to 0.18.3 was applied, which has been great. I’ve also tweaked the nginx settings to prevent old.lemmy.zip from timing out so often due to rate limiting.

Front end Clients

Following the release of Voyager as an app we’ve moved the front-ends around a little for those not aware.

  • m.lemmy.zip now leads to the Photon front end
  • v.lemmy.zip now leads to Voyager if people still want to use it as a web app
  • old.lemmy.zip still leads to the reddit look-alike.
  • beta.lemmy.zip now doesn’t lead anywhere.

This isn’t the end of the movements we’re making, Photon will likely have a new home (probably p.lemmy.zip or photon.lemmy.zip) and we’re always looking for cool new front-ends to implement.

If there are any other front-ends you’ve seen that you’d like us to host, let me know.

Administration and Defederation Policy

Following this week’s recent events, we’ve implemented an Administration and Defederation Policy to make it clear when and how we as an admin team take action.

Please have a read and let me know if you have any questions.

Funding

Our users continue to be incredibly generous, and we’re in a really solid position with funding at the moment. I am continuing to keep the OpenCollective website updated with expenses if you want to have a nosy, and if feel you want to donate be assured every single bit goes to keeping the server going (and if we are secure enough, we’ll be upgrading the server for better performance).

Anyone who does donate will get their name in the Thank You Thread. If you use your real name and want me to put your Lemmy.zip username instead, please send me a PM and I’ll update it ASAP.

Interaction

Just a quick hello to all new Lemmy.zip users - I hope you’re enjoying your time here on Lemmy!

This is my general weekly reminder to new and existing users that interaction is what keeps Lemmy growing. An upvote here, a quick comment there… it all goes to keeping Lemmy growing.

If you see content you like, please interact with it!

Stats

Now for the interesting bit :)

CPU usage over the last 7 days:\

Some network stats:

Backblaze image storage stats:

(Well on our way to 100gb!)

Cloudflare stats over the last 7 days:

And finally, the race between Finland and the USA is back on, with the USA creeping narrowly back into the lead:

This week’s post was brought to you by Fred Again’s Boiler Room set.

Thats all there is this week, hopefully normal service will resume! As always, let me know if there is anything else you’d like to see.

Demigodrick.