Did you manage to get past cloudflare in the end? It's on full lockdown mode like the lemmy site is, but I can probably back it off for this game tbh
Demigodrick
joined 2 years ago
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I managed to accidentally lock all the chats for a while (hopefully now resolved) - I am also rewriting the chat logic to try and iron out issues.
Thanks, have reported to the blorp dev and will report to voyager dev. They work on the platform directly but the apps don't show the links.
The sun is shining. The leaves are blossoming. Sheep skip happily across the fields.
It is April, my friends.
Server Updates
Thank you to those who took part in my little button experiment - I didn't expect it to go quite so well, and have decided there will be a season 2 of The Button. You can follow along in the new The Button community - !thebutton@lemmy.zip
Piefed.zip has a new admin! Please say hello (and thank you!) to INeedMana who has kindly joined the team to help out with keeping the place clean and tidy!
Lemmy.zip has seen two updates this month, versions 0.19.16 and 0.19.17. These have been smaller updates, while we wait on the 1.0 release to come!
Please Don’t Be a Lurker!
If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip isn’t money, praise, or a signed copy of your self-published autobiography.. maybe. Its participation.
Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether cereal is technically a soup. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession. (We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)
The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.
So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:
Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.
Donations
Want to support us? We have a range of donation options to suit you!
Liberpay (Card, Paypal)
Liberpay is our newest donation method. You can donate with Paypal or with a card. The link is https://liberapay.com/dotzip
OpenCollective (Card)
Our classic donation option, but only supports card payments. The link is https://opencollective.com/lemmyzip
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip or Piefed.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the sites and keeping the virtual lights on.
Ko-Fi (Card, Paypal)
We also have our Ko-Fi page if you'd rather use this site, which also supports Paypal and Card payments.
Thank you!
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too! (I am a little behind with this sorry but I will update it soon!)
Operation Epic Graphing
Piefed.zip
For Piefed, we only store data for 7 days rather than 30 (because historically we had less storage space on the server) so all graphs are 7 days unless otherwise stated.
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Lemmy.zip
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Well that's all for now. Take care all and I'll be back in May for some more graphs and all the updates :)
Thanks all
Demigodrick
I was sad you lost your fastest reaction time!
still lots of people with a press left, but not sure if people just missed it ending!
I have a lot of work to do on it, but do people really want it back so quickly?
I can add a 1 hour cooldown though for a round 2 :)
🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴
Thank you to all that played :)
The Button may be back in the future!
Failsafe accidentally triggered, took me a sec to undo :)
Without a doubt the most important press
Try now - have tweaked some stuff to see if its a masto authorised fetch thing going on.
There is a leaderboard on there with a bunch of stats including that one :)
Go on, press it.. you know you want to!
Ahoy hoy friends.
spoiler
We are officially in to March (you probably already knew that). Unfortunately I forgot there were only 28 days and so have had no prep time to come up with anything remotely witty as an opening paragraph, so you're stuck with whatever this sorry excuse of an opening is. Anyway, onwards!
Server Updates
This bit relates to all our services, so I'll put it at the top here!
Two big things - firstly, keep an eye out for April Fools day this year 😜 I've actually put a bit of work in this year so I'm excited.
Secondly, Hetzner who host all our servers are putting up their prices. In all fairness, this is happening across the industry as the demand for RAM soars, and Hetzner have been pretty rock solid in terms of pricing & support over the last 3 years, so I'm not too upset about it. We'll just have to keep an eye on it vs donations over the next 6 months.
After our last server update, we decided to upgrade the server to the next VPS (Virtual Private Server) tier due to the influx of new users. The cost increase at the time was minimal and gave a significant boost to performance. We now have 8 vCPUs and 16GB RAM for Piefed. If we decide to upgrade again, we'll likely swap from a shared VPS set up to a dedicated VPS which should give more consistent performance but does cost that bit more.
I'm always on the look out for Piefed.zip staff to approve new accounts and handle mod reports. If you're a regular Piefed.zip user and would like to help out, please drop me a message!
Thankfully nothing major has happened on Lemmy.zip this month. We're basically in a holding pattern of waiting for the Lemmy devs to release 1.0 so we can do the upgrade and get access to all the new goodies. Hopefully not too long to wait.
I do need to do some updates on the server and the services we run, I'll try and schedule that in the next couple of weeks.
Since enabling the cloudflare challenge across Lemmy.zip we've had no downtime or scraper incidents at all, which has been quite nice!
Please Don’t Be a Lurker!
If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip isn’t money, praise, or a signed copy of your self-published autobiography.. maybe. Its participation.
Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether cereal is technically a soup. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession. (We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)
The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.
So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:
Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.
Donations
Thank you to everyone who read my message and donated to the cause last month ❤️ I was a bit overwhelmed with your generiousity and kindness and it all helps to keep the virtual lights on here!
As a reminder, we can only continue to exist because of the generous donations of our users. If you too truly value your freedom, please help support it for everyone with a small donation.
Want to support us? We have a range of donation options to suit you!
Liberpay (Card, Paypal)
Liberpay is our newest donation method. You can donate with Paypal or with a card. The link is https://liberapay.com/dotzip
OpenCollective (Card)
Our classic donation option, but only supports card payments. The link is https://opencollective.com/lemmyzip
If you're enjoying Lemmy.zip or Piefed.zip, please check out the OpenCollective page, we have a selection of one-off or recurring donation options. All funds go directly to hosting the sites and keeping the virtual lights on.
Ko-Fi (Card, Paypal)
We also have our Ko-Fi page if you'd rather use this site, which also supports Paypal and Card payments.
Thank you!
We continue to have some really kind and generous donators and I can't express my thanks enough. You can see all the kind donators in the Thank You thread - you could get your name in there too! (I am a little behind with this sorry but I will update it soon!)
Sir, this is a Wendy's. Nobody wants to see your graphs.
Piefed.zip
For Piefed, we only store data for 7 days rather than 30 (because historically we had less storage space on the server) so all graphs are 7 days unless otherwise stated.
CPU:
RAM:
Current performance as of right now:
Images:
Cloudflare (these are all over 30 days):
Overview:
Requests:
Bandwidth:
Visitors:
Lemmy.zip
CPU:
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Current performance right now:
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Visitors:
OK well that's it for now - March is an exciting month for me, not just because April fools is at the end but also because, for anyone who was around a year ago, my child turns 1 year old during this month which is absolutely nuts. Time has flown by so quickly (despite the long, long nights and sleep deprivation).
We're also coming up on Lemmy.zip's third birthday in June (Year one and Year two are both still up!) which is another awesome milestone!
Thank you, see you in a month!
Demigodrick
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Likely related to this issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6427
Something introduced in 0.19.16 is causing the server to restart. We can go 12+ hours with no problems, then 10 restarts in 3 hours. Seemingly random, but hopefully with the devs on it we can get a resolution.