We will be updating to the latest Lemmy version very shortly. Release notes can be found here:

https://lemmy.ml/post/28296989

Downtime is expected to be approximately 15 minutes.

We experienced a disruption to our Pict-rs service today that caused images we host to temporarily become unavailable and new images unable to be uploaded. Those issues are now resolved and everything should be working normally again.

If you see this or any other problems pop up again don't hesitate to let us know. Thanks.

Hello,

We will be performing some brief site maintenance to add additional resources to the server. Expected downtime is less than 5 minutes as the server restarts. If you're unable to reach the site please try again in a few minutes.

Thank you.

Everything is back up and looks good. Please report anything unusual.

Thanks.

Hello all,

We will be updating to Lemmy 0.19.10 today at 19:00 UTC. That's about an hour from the time of posting.

http://time.is/UTC if you want something more accurate.

Expected downtime is only around 15 minutes. During this time the site will be unreachable, meaning local users won't be able to use the site or use their account via apps. Federated instances shouldn't be impacted and everything should sync back up as soon as the update is completed.

This is a relatively minor update with some new tweaks to help with the ongoing spam problem and a fix for YouTube thumbnail fetching.

Hello again,

Our friends at db0 have come up with another way to block the 'Fediverse Chick' spam. We've implemented the filter detailed here. Please note this won't remove the spam from your inbox. Future messages should display as "Removed" if they contain the filtered phrases.

Please let us know if spam is still slipping through so we can make additional changes as needed. Thanks.

Hello,

We're happy to announce that we've enabled federation with lemmy.world ahead of schedule. After some testing we feel confident that we'll be able to handle the additional traffic even though they are still running an older build of Lemmy.

We've added several of their top communities to our "All" feed found here to get things started. Many more communities should begin showing up over time as our instances begin to interact. Lemmyverse is a great tool for finding communities to subscribe to if you'd like to help things along.

We've done our best to ensure this is a painless experience for our users, but unexpected things can come up. Please let us know of any problems you're having and we'll do our best to help get you sorted.

Thanks.

Hello,

Many of you have probably seen the spam profiles calling themselves the 'Fediverse Chick' by now. They are accounts created on other instances that send annoying DMs asking you to check out their profile. As of today we're implemented a blocking policy on crazypeople.online to try and combat the spam.

Please let us know if any of these messages are still reaching your inboxes after today.

Thank you.

The instance is now online and federating.