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. π
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.
This is really great to hear. Ever since my friends told me about this instance, itβs been main social feed for the past few days.