Our instance is currently down and I can't get remote access to the servers. It appears that there might have been a hardware failure of the main firewall, which is the one thing I can't work around remotely.

I am still trying a few things, but I am not very optimistic that I can get access.

The really unfortunate part is that just now I am on one of my rare work deployments abroad, so I also can't access it physically during the next few weeks and my usual back up that could restart it is not available either.

As something like that never happened in 3 years operating the servers, I thought I can risk it, but murphy's law seems inescapable 😓

I will try to keep you posted here on any updates, but probably there will not be much I can do for a while. Really bad timing 😥

Edit: we might use this "opportunity" to migrate the instance to Piefed, which has been an idea for quite some time now. I will keep you posted on that.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

communicative about issues

Aren't most admins this way?

*glances at your instance name*

Ah...

[–] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Lol. Yeah, sdf.org feels pretty hands-off. They have longevity going for them--I've had an sdf account of some sort since 2009 at the latest. The system started life as a BBS in the 80s. The name comes from the anime "Super Dimension Fortress", which I've never seen.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

pretty hands-off

Given that the single admin @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org hasn't been active in two years, yeah, I'd say that counts as "pretty hands-off". The SDF organization as a whole will probably be around for decades to come, but they don't seem to care that much about their Lemmy instance.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They have stepped in when a lot of people complained, it took their whole instance complaining to do so while a Nazi troll spammed hate across the local feed.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I miss BBS.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

you can still have it with NodeBB!

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are there modem sounds to play air guitar to?

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 1 points 3 hours ago

blazeknave@lemmy.world

beep beep boop boop boop boop beep... EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee awwwwwww ka-dong ka-dong da kshhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

eerie silence