Announcements

We’re finally federating! 🎉

We are doing some maintenance related to the image upload/serving service.

This will take some time. I am guessing maybe 6 hours.

During this period image uploads won't work and old images won't be displayed properly.

Really sorry about this. But thankfully, as far as I can see, this is the last infrastructure related maintenance we have to do.

Thanks for understanding.

Edit: Gonna have to postpone this because of personal reasons. For now images should be working fine.

I am sure many of us have noticed that the site had problems over the last four or five days.

The downtimes were caused because of unrecoverable hardware issues with our server. The result was that he had to rebuild the setup from scratch on a machine and restore from a backup. We have also switched to a new provider since the previous one was consistently causing issues.

After this was done, image uploads were still broken for some time. There was no good fix for this because one of the database files used by pictrs had become corrupted due to the aforementioned hardware issues. To resolve this, we had to use an non-corrupted database file from a very old backup. Now image uploads should work fine. The downside is that images uploaded recently will not show up properly. There is not fix for this other than to reupload these images. Sorry about this.

Most of the technical problems with the site should be fixed now.

There is one maintenance task remaining related to moving the image storage to a new S3 provider which will require some downtime. We will inform about this beforehand.

Thanks for your patience.

Follow-up for https://lemmygrad.ml/post/939916.

Some of you thought we got hacked so we have removed taglines for now. People also complained about some taglines being too long which also makes sense.

We might add them later in the future but for now we have removed them.

Thanks for the feedback.

Our VPS shat the bed yet again, and due to a ton of disk-related errors, I had to restore from the last daily backup, so a few hours of data are missing.

This is not the first time this has happened, so we're officially done with this VPS, and will migrate to something else in a few days.

Again, I apologize, and special thanks to @[email protected] for getting us back up so quickly.

Image uploading and downloading will be down for a while. Gonna try my best to do it without bringing the site down. Sorry for the inconvenience it will inevitably cause.

EDIT: 2023-06-23T04:07:57+00:00: Going to take down pictrs now. There is a chance it might break the site.

EDIT: 2023-06-25T04:21:57+00:00: Site did not break. Migration has begun. Should take one to three hours in my estimate.

EDIT: 2023-06-25T05:54:00+00:00: Migrations still ongoing.

EDIT: 2023-06-25T06:36:17+00:00: Final stretch. Image upload will work now. Old images will be back Soon(TM).

EDIT: 2023-06-25T07:42:07+00:00: Old images are coming back online. Migration should be done in 10-20 minutes.

EDIT: 2023-06-25T07:49:35+00:00: It is done.

Pictures are being restored currently, should be a few hours.

Apologies again yall.

Like my post yesterday , I have made yet another bot, and I think people are gonna like this one.

The new friend is @[email protected]. Mention this fellow in a comment and give it a prompt and it will use stable diffusion to generate some images for you. I'll show it off a bit in the comments.

Edit: the bot now only replies to posts and comments in the AI art community.

We have 2 new bot comrades on Lemmygrad.

The first is @[email protected]. This bot will translate the content of posts and comments. To use it, mention the bot followed by the language you'd like to translate into.

For example, to translate a post or comment into English, reply with a comment that says "@[email protected] English". To translate into Dutch, reply "@[email protected] Nederlands". I encourage people to play with it. The free DeepL account I'm using let's me translate up to 500,000 characters a month.

The second bot is @[email protected]. This bot will scan images that have text in them and reply to you with the text. To use it, just mention it.

Edit: If any of the admins or community moderators want to make any automod bots for repetitive tasks, hit me up. I made a library recently that makes it pretty easy to make bots.

A community dedicated to the political idiocy and terrible graphic-designing skills of the right wing.

It appears spam accounts have been posting links to central and east Asian talent firms and other such... completely unrelated to leftism.. things.

If you see one of these, please notify an admin to have the post removed. The purpose of c/Announcements is to announce new communities here on Lemmy, any posts other than that are against the rules of the community.

Thanks for your time,

Heck.

:cowboy hat face: The actual subcommie is [email protected]

Not an economist myself by any means but discussion about it is always fruitful. The economy is, to an extent, unnecessarily obfuscated and a better understanding of the economy leads to better materialist interpretation of the world.

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Made a community for news and discussions pertaining to India. I am not much of a poster myself but I will try to make contributions so more people know about what is going on within our borders.

Please feel free to post and crosspost there.

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Comrades, I have successfully doxed our top moderator and developer. Let this be a lesson to all who command the proletariat, you are not above the workers. :angry face: Best, Hildegarde

I don't know what kind of engagement to expect, but I made a post encouraging Raddle users to come here. It appeared to be an exclusively leftist space and be an active forum.

Having styled this post as an AMA, I may be unprepared for some of their questions. I haven't been on here very long, and may be fielding questions that are better directed to Lemmy devs or long-time users. I am happy to x-post questions and answers to their platform on your behalves

Shoutout to @[email protected] for giving me the idea in the chapo thread