To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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!biscuits@feddit.uk is still quiet, which I'd expect as it's niche. We get fun chats there which is good
!wholesome@reddthat.com is doing well, we've made it a really nice place to hang out which is good.
!nicememes@sopuli.xyz is getting more upvotes and comments which is nice. We've got nice members which makes it worth it.
Good old solid dependable !WomensStuff@piefed.blahaj.zone is still doing well. We've got brilliant regulars and I love hanging out with them!
Impressive work on all of your communities!
Thanks Blaze!
Working on moving the instance... Again.
CPO is one of the instances impacted by KNThost shutting down so the focus has been away from the active site and more on finding a suitable home. Unfortunately Lemmy isn't the only service that KNT was hosting for us so there's a lot of work that has to be done before KNT shuts down for good. ATM I'm doing testing on some dedicated server hosts and working through the problems that come up with each of them to figure out what services will end up where. Some things are being moved to my home server but certain things (like Lemmy) I want in a data center, not in my home, for a number of reasons.
Our communities continue to see growth and activity thanks to our local members and some awesome friends from around the Fediverse, so I don't think my absence is missed too much. I'm happy to see people feeling comfortable in our space and it motivates me to find a new place to call home for what we have instead of starting over from scratch, which would be much easier.
The timing is pretty awful but at least we have time to try some other hosting options. I hope everyone else impacted by the KNT shutdown is able to find a new place to call home without too much trouble.
Best of luck in all you do friends 💚.
We moved to blahaj a while ago, the admins were amazingly helpful during the move. They're a really secure instance as well. Might be worth looking into
At the moment just about everything is being considered. After touching base with the active local users it became obvious that at least a few people are happy to be @crazypeople.online and want the site to continue on. For crazy people they're pretty quiet and they don't cause much trouble so we don't have a lot of back and forth communication 🤪. I wasn't sure how much anyone cared if the current site continued compared to something like relaunching under a new domain or potentially even new software. They would prefer the current site be moved to a new home rather than relaunching, so I'm exploring those options first.
Sorry to hear, good luck with the migration !
It's a PITA but there are positive takeaways. Hosting with KNT had plenty of challenges too but we stumbled through it together to get the current instance working and running great. It's a shame to lose that stability and relationship after working on it for nearly two years in total. Weed helps.
Sorry to hear that! KNThost went bust? They weren't making ends meet?
This is the official announcement:
https://www.knthost.com/blog/shutting-down
They don't get into detail about why they're going out of business, just that it's happening and what sort of timeline to expect. I haven't talked to support about it since they sent out the announcement emails but it was a big shock. They've always been great with communication and this came out of nowhere. There was never any pricing increase or mention of costs being a problem so I'm not sure that's what the reason is. Without a statement from them we'll probably never know.
I see more activity on !onepiece@lemmy.world. Number of voters has not changed much, but definitely more posts/comments.