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The sled database was not working. Restarts fix all

I ran out of space and it was crashing pictrs for a day or so, should be ok now

The server hosting the site keeps rebooting and I don't have an ETA to have it fixed, pictrs is wonky because of it. If you get an error just retry in a minute, it restarts pretty quickly.

Everything should be back to normal

Sorry about the downtime! We're back, lemmy-ui is rebuilt

What is the Vegan Theory Club?

We're a loose confederation of actual friends who are vegan and want a place online for us to post and enjoy. We are all leftists of various types from Marxist-Leninists to Anarchists. There is no required philosophy to join and contribute, only rules against promoting hierarchy on this instance.

We're vegans. This means we are the voice for the voiceless. Our common trait is a respect for life and animals and a desire to end the injustice of human oppression of them. This is what unites us above all else even above human politics.

What is the Vegan Theory Club not? It is not a website to fill all of your needs or replace anything else. This is not Reddit, nor is this a Reddit replacement. It is not Twitter, it is not Facebook, it is not even discord of which this server acts as a recruitment tool for. This is a platform for us to share with each other and our small community. I chose the Lemmy software because it is easy to use, run and manage and I saw the federation as a positive making it easier to participate. We may re-evaluate this in the future.

What else isn't the Vegan Theory Club? It isn't a place for drama, tension, meta posting, screaming about tankies, US politics, promoting wars, or really any form arguments. This is why we don't host any vegan circlejerk type communities, this is why I am on guard about federating instances that allow this kind of content. It is overwhelming. The way lemmy works, the bigger fish in the pond eat the others. If you have a desire to discuss these topics you may use the federated communities to post this on other instances, it does not belong here.

Big picture is that this isn't a general purpose instance, this is a small community for friends. If you want to be friends, great, sign ups are open and for now we are keeping federation enabled. If you want to post on drama communities, fight about US politics, and act immaturely; Please simply block this instance and move on with your life.

The actor_name_max_length^[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/8d269fc08ee0efb03c20f97b4c1075881046490d/crates/api_common/src/site.rs#L260] in the site settings has been set to 30. This can be verified by checking here: https://vegantheoryclub.org/api/v3/site

Basically this means that people can now set display names of up to 30 characters long. Before it was set to 20, which meant that things like adding pronouns to the display name would often hit the character limit and would prevent you from editing your name.

This also applies to Site, and Community,^[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema/src/source/activity.rs#L86] but that's probably not too important to mention, as community names have been fine with the limit.

Special thanks to @[email protected] for changing these values and following my poorly explained tutorial on how to edit the site settings.

Also TIL, powershell aliases curl despite it existing as a command in Windows already.^[https://stackoverflow.com/a/66840040]

Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club!

This is a link sharing site for vegan things. We have open registration if you want to create an account and log in.

We host four communities which are like "subreddits"

1. Vegan Home Cooks
2. Vegan Recipes
3. Gardening
4. Vegan

The communities are here to help share links and photos for vegans by vegans.

Vegan Home Cooks is a site for a discord server called Vegan Home Cooks Discord. This is a low-friction post-what-you-cooked community so we can share what we made today and talk about it, no recipes required. We want to provide motivation and encouragement for each other and show off what we made today.

Vegan Recipes is focused on how to cook and links to recipe sites.

Gardening is focused on our gardens, plants, hydroponics and learning how to do it. Some of us are pros and some are just learning and want to post what we're reading and what we're doing.

Vegan is for general vegan news, I don't really know what to do with this one.

Our communities are federated with various other servers running software called Lemmy. If you have an account on one of those servers you can still subscribe to our communities from your home server and participate. If you create an account with us you can also view other federated communities across multiple Lemmy servers we are linked up with.

Thanks for visiting our site!

We abide by the Anarchist Code of Conduct

Vegan Home Cooks Discord

Vegan Theory Club Discord

Vegan Matrix Chat

I don't believe they add anything to the experience and are actually toxic. If you have a strong opinion on why they should be allowed let me know, I can't think of any.

Hi Vegans,

I fixed the DMARC record so that the sign up emails should no longer go to your spam filters and quarantines. If you still have issues let me know

Thanks!