G'day all,

Wow, it's been, like, a few months, and we're still alive! Wow! Sniff my socks, u/spez!

I've launched another useful thing - this one's Netdata monitoring. You can access it at https://netdata.apollo.town, and it will display realtime stats on server load, downtime, etc. If the server's feeling sluggish, you can now find out why. It's read-only and locally hosted - it's connected to my Netdata Cloud for remote management. You can look, and that's about it.

In the future, this may or may not replace Uptime Kuma. Uptime Kuma was mostly for monitoring other Lemmy servers so we know if your feed isn't working or federating. I think I can get Netdata to do that, but I'll have to muck about with it in the future.

Incidentally, as well, it's already proved useful. Apparently our server needs some more RAM.

-Nico

I'm making this post because I'm shutting down my Kbin instance, kbin.lol, and redirecting it here for an undetermined amount of time.

But why?

Kbin isn't ready. Not even close. I know the developer, Ernest, has been working his ass off trying to get everything fixed and pushed, and I really value his efforts. However, it's still beta software, and as I've been unable to make a good user experience, it's being shut down until there's a better release, or a stable one.

What issues? Kbin.social works fine!

• There is no option to delete a user, except from the command line. Users can't delete their own data. I have to manually process all user removal requests, with the backend.
• Federation appears to be broken due to the messenger backend repeatedly crashing, with no information on how to fix it. All I did was restart the Docker stack, which shouldn't break anything.
• Compiling and running the site is extremely difficult. With Lemmy, I just pull a docker-compose, set some

If you have heard of wefwef, it's an Apollo clone that runs in a web browser optimized for mobile. I thought it was cool(and quite fitting for the site) so I deployed a copy to app.apollo.town. Add it to your home screen as a web app for a slick new auto-updating client!

Also, I didn't vet this very much, so it could be hella broken, or it could be incompatible. I dunno, just thought it was neat and we could give it a try. As always, let me know if there's any issues.

G'day all,

I've come to realize my shotgun approach to updating whenever it's convenient isn't really working. To that end, I've deployed an instance of Uptime Kuma, a free and open source uptime monitor, which you can access at status.apollo.town.

I'll add a maintenance window here if we're going down for updates, as well as I've added a few other major instances so if you're getting federation problems, you can check if they're reachable by this server. Finally, it also monitors Lemmy source so if my Docker fails to build or something, maybe they changed the image name, etc.

As always, hit me up on Mastodon if you have any questions, or email me at admin at apollo.town. Please let me know if you have any other major instances you'd like monitored and I'll see about adding them.

Cheers!

-Nico

Email is now working.

If you enter an invalid email, the page may freeze when saving your account settings, but valid emails should save. This appears to be a Lemmy issue and I expect it to be fixed in the future.

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G'day all,

Thanks for using/visiting/interacting here at our instance!

Now, this is my first time setting up Lemmy, and currently the server isn't able to send emails out. I do approve users within a few hours, but you won't get a notification, You also can't add an email to your profile as of right now.

I'm working on getting it fixed up - I have a mail server already and I just need Lemmy to use it. Once it's fixed I'll update here. Thanks for your patience - again, it's my first time at this 😄

First of all, thank you for joining the server, or if you are part of another community and just stopping by, welcome! Federation is great, and that means you don't need to be here to hang out!

This is a Lemmy instance(a federated software that operates more or less like Reddit) that I created when I heard of my favorite app, Apollo, shutting down. Goodnight sweet prince, and may your memory live on forever in the domain of my website. Christian is a fantastic developer, and if you liked his app Apollo, you should check out his other app Pixel Pals!

Feel free to post in Community Requests if you'd like a community created - I was in all sorts of subreddits and I'd say about anything goes here. NSFW, memes, video games, gym bros, whatever you want! I'd just like to do my part and support the community, and it's an honor to be hosting for y'all.

Please don't hesitate to comment any questions that you might have