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[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you πŸ™

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 3 months ago

Thank you so much for your donation πŸ™ I hope we can continue using Throne.com, it's very easy for both us and the donors.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you πŸ™ We used to use a single post for donations. At lemmyposter212's suggestion, we switched to sharing a monthly financial statement. Now, I'll be sharing pinned posts for a few days at the end of each month. I hope this will simplify things.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

Oh that problem. It should disappear after a minute. It probably has to do with privacy features.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, they rejected us. I'm not sure why. Do you have any other suggestions for an alternative?

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Which client are you using? It works well on Mlem and web UI.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 3 months ago

As lemmyposter212 said, cryptocurrencies are more stable and have lower commissions. However, for those who don't use crypto, throne.com is still a good choice. We've been using this site for over a year and haven't encountered any issues so far.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

Due to the uncertainty surrounding the image storage issue last month, I haven't been able to update the instance's expense and donations for two months. Now that the issues have been resolved, I think it's time to do so.

The latest financial statement as of July 19 was as follows:

USD ETH XMR
205 0.0145 0.9264

Since July 19, we have received donations of $25, 0.0061 ETH, 0.0734 XMR. I paid $63.5 per month for 3 months (Jul, Aug, Sep) for server. I also paid $33.5 to our old S3 provider and $16 to the new one. The latest status is as follows:

USD ETH XMR
-35 0.0206 0.9594

Unfortunately, the situation doesn't look very promising :) Still, we've had worse days. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/87160

Update

We've received a lot of donations over the past five days. Thanks everyone πŸ™ Here's the final tally:

We received $355 in donations from 17 different donors. I have converted 0.95 XMR to $277 (since we can't really use XMR). In the end, we have $597.

Additionally, we received donations of 0.0035 ETH, 0.0062 ETH, and 0.0475 XMR. We currently have 0.0304 ETH and 0.0565 XMR.

Things weren't looking great when I posted, but we seem to be doing well now.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago

Done πŸ‘

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 months ago

FINALLY 😍

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they’re all back πŸ‘

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 5 months ago

Oh that! There were so many out of date comments asking for same thing. So I removed most of them and summarized all questions into one comment.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

wut πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

Since I haven't patched the newly updated version yet, it won't be automatically marked as NSFW. Please manually mark your posts as NSFW for now until this post disappears.


Update: you can safely ignore NSFW button now. All posts are NSFW flagged by default.

 

I haven't updated it for months, thinking it would make sense to follow Lemmy.world's update cycle, but they haven’t updated for so long and we're running into federation issues. So I'll be updating to the latest Lemmy version (0.19.9).

I believe the update process will take about 1-2 hours.

Also, what do you think about Lemmy NSFW's speed/performance? You can express your opinion in the comments or with the poll. We can make improvements if necessary.

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaLlmLg3


Update: Done. Please comment here if you encounter any issues. Email issues are fixed too.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

yay 🍻

 

I finally found time for this. Here are some changes:

  • Image, gif and video extensions will no longer be changed, they will remain as they are.
  • File quality will not be reduced, they will remain at max quality.
  • Added support for types such as APNG, JPEG-XL.
  • Animation types will not be converted to video.
  • The file size limit remains at 20mb. If I can somehow solve the donation issue, I would like to increase this limit in the future.

Thanks to @asonix for making the above and many more improvements.

Please let me know if you encounter any errors. I need to tweak the configurations a bit more I guess.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

There are issues that have been on my mind for a few days, and I wanted to talk about them with you.

Downvotes

As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn't resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don't know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).

I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don't have admin skills in stressful situations, I'm a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.

lemmyposter212 suggested "fuzzy votes" or something that can work for us too. I think I'll just ghost this issue for a while.

Donations

As you know, all our donation accounts have been closed. Since it was my first time opening a site in the NSFW area, I had no experience. I reviewed some adult donation sites but most of them were shady. Honestly I couldn't trust them.

There are only coins now. But I guess most people don't want to deal with coins. It is because I didn't get any donations about 4 months now :D Those sent from Github Sponsor or Patreon were also returned to donators as well. I received $200-ish donations so far.

We are currently the 2nd largest instance in Lemmy. After lemmy.world, we're bigger than lemmy.ml and lemm.ee! I don't think it will work this way anymore. On an annual basis, I need to spend a month's salary for Lemmy NSFW.

Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?

 

In our previous announcement, we announced that we closed downvotes.

Some people found it right, some people hated it, some people hesitated. At the end of the day, since we are on a disorganised platform like fediverse, I find the decision we took right. However, I was also annoyed by the lack of downvotes. So I searched for a solution.

I think the planned post flair support will be a good improvement in this regard. But it seems to take a long time to develop.

What do you think about limiting downvotes to only members of that community? I see it as the optimal way in the current situation.

Please vote with empathy, not just as a user, but assuming you are a poster user. Is it right decision?

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/DwyoDBooDnA

Result: done.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

Quick notes;

  • Clients may not work with the beta version for now. Please log out and log in back again to test it. Please request support from client devs.
  • Blur NSFW and auto expand features are part of official Lemmy now, you can find these on profile settings.
  • Beta version has some bugs, please report them on the repo.
  • You can now block instances with this version
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

Update: if you're seeing this text, then we've completed the migration :) πŸŽ‰

TL;DR: We are downgrading the server.

Currently, the instance has a monthly cost of approximately $200, and we can barely cover this expense with donations. But more importantly, we think that the current server specs are too much for the needs.

We are the 3rd instance with the most users and one of the most stable instances with 99.55% uptime, but still more than half of the server components are not used.

Therefore, we will slowly downgrade the server to use donations more optimally. By the way, thank you to everyone who supporting us πŸ™

  • Old specs: 16 core, 48 ram for 160$
  • New specs: 12 core, 32 ram for 125$

The migration will start in 12PM UTC, you can check from your own timezone from here: https://notime.zone/NdyvH8JtJkJmZ

Instance will be available with a few downtimes, but posts/comments after 12PM will be deleted. Please follow this post...

 

I haven't been able to fix these sooner as I've been busy the last few days. I got it now.

The Voyager app (voyager.lemmynsfw.com) on the instance works as expected and updates automatically now.

Post listing settings (blur nsfw/auto expand images) are back again. I will not update Lemmy version before I patch new version so it will not be unpleasant as before.

Also we're having trouble with the donation platforms. We may be making a change soon. Friends who have donated from sites such as Github Sponsors and Patreon before, what do you think about making donations from sites such as fanbox.cc or subscribestar.adult?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
 

I was waiting for new versions, but the disk filled up faster than I expected. I'm moving 400GB image archive from local disk to object-storage. Unfortunately the process is very slow. It will take several hours.

Update: Migration finished πŸŽ‰

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