Firstly, I wanted to apologize for the silence over the past couple weeks. Work, life took over administering this instance.

Onto the good stuff.

As some of you may have noticed we skipped 0.18.0 because of some unforeseen issues but we're now on 0.18.1. In my extremely minimal testing, the upgrade seems to have gone through largely smoothly! Please do let me know if you see any weirdness. (Some old themes might be borked, please update your own interface accordingly).

I am aware that Jerboa was completely broken, hopefully it works now (I can't test it since I don't have access to Android).

Time for some stats:

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           392M  1.7M  390M   1% /run
/dev/vda1        94G   21G   69G  23% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           392M  4.0K  392M   1% /run/user/1002

$ free -m
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            3911         475         142         140        3294        3020
Swap:           2399          88        2311

Another important thing I did was upgrade the instance to a mid-tier vultr plan (we did run out of disk space on the old one). Here's the new plan:

AMD High Performance 2 vCPU, 4096 MB RAM, 100 GB NVMe, 5.00 TB Transfer

And last month's vultr stats:

This brings our yearly costs to (there's occasional bumps because of some vultr snapshot nonsense) regardless:

domain: $12/year
vultr: $24 (instance)  + $4.8 (backups) = $28.8/month = $345.60 / year
email: still free tier on zoho, woo!
total: $357 / year

Let me know questions/concerns, bugs you've noticed after the upgrade.

Cheers!

In case anyone was wondering, yes we were down for ~2 hours or so. I apologize for the inconvenience.

We had a botched upgrade path from 0.17.4 -> 0.18.0. I spent some time debugging but eventually gave up and restored a snapshot (taken on Saturday Jun 24, 2023 @ 11:00 UTC).

We'll likely stick to 0.17.4 till I can figure out a safe path to upgrade to a bigger (and up-to-date) instance and carry over all the user data. Any help/advice welcome. Hopefully this doesn't occur again!

Hey all,

It's been slightly over two weeks since lemmyrs started. It's been pretty fun watching the community grow!

Some instance stats for you:

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs            97M  1.7M   96M   2% /run
/dev/vda1        24G   15G  7.1G  68% /
tmpfs           485M     0  485M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs            97M  4.0K   97M   1% /run/user/1002

$ free -mh
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           969Mi       445Mi        77Mi       134Mi       445Mi       240Mi
Swap:          2.3Gi       571Mi       1.8Gi

lemmy=# select count(id) from local_user;
 count
-------
   294
(1 row)

We're cutting it pretty close in terms of RAM and Disk usage, the user growth rate has mostly flat-lined though once r/rust came back online so I'm not too concerned. When (If) it's time I'll likely bump up the Vultr instance plan to something which will continue to serve us for the foreseeable future.

Previous relevant posts:

• One week update
• Full transparency and maintenance costs

Hey all,

Just thought I'd share an update. I have added a few new communities and renamed the existing communities to have slightly more consistent naming throughout this instance. Icons are primarily from Wikimedia Commons (replacements welcome as long as there are no copyright issues).

Added:

- Rust: Web Development
- Rust: Game Development
- Rust: Embedded Systems

Renamed:

- Memes to Rust: Memes
- News to Rust: News
- Support to Rust: Support
- Meta to Rust: Meta

PS: The identifiers for the renamed communities remain the same. Open to any suggestions/thoughts on this change or otherwise.

Cheers!

If I try to send a comment on other instances (at least on programming.dev) at least 4 out of 5 times my comment is not send, the send button is replaced by a spinner that spin forever and that's all. Am I the only one with this issue ?

I'm using firefox on android.

I'd like to stick with the lemmyrs instance but we are almost a full majver out of date. Is there any timeline for updates or should I just migrate?

I have noticed there hasn't been any news or details on the issues with upgrading lemmyrs.org. It has been a couple of weeks since the last post on that topic.

Could we have a status update? What sort of error was it that you hit when upgrading? Do you have a link to a relevant upstream bug report?

I would love a bit more transparency on this. Perhaps you just haven't had time to work on it (this is a side project for you as I understand it), which makes sense. But perhaps there is something the community could do to help then?(Though I admit that I personally have zero web dev experience, working mostly in embedded, and would be of limited use.)

Test.

Update: wow that took long.

I can't comment on other instances because invalid language or something. Google tells me to set a language on my profile, which I did. And my profile settings page shows a warning that I should not uncheck undetermined, but there is no undetermined. Is that a problem with lemmy or this instance?

Also creating this post timed out a few times

I checked Google and the suggestion was to check my profile settings. On the profile settings page there is a warning not to uncheck "undefined" but I don't have an undefined option. My language is set to English (both of them).

Is there anything I can do to fix that issue?

Hi admin(s),

Would that be possible to update this server to the latest 0.18.1 version please?

• we can't login on the Jerboa for Lemmy app because the version of this server is 0.17.4
• we can't search communities from other servers. Try searching for the following examples:
  • !kde@lemmy.ml
  • !pinetime@lemmy.world

Thank you