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Hello sh.itjust.works community,

Many of you have been eager to get an update about when the sh.itjust.works instance will get it's upgrade to the latest version of lemmy. Here's a update along with a tentative timeline.

In December 2023 I purchased a new server for this community. It took me awhile but I eventually made the time to get it racked at the local datacenter. For the sysadmins lingering and those interested here are the specs:

• Dual Xeon 2.9Ghz CPUs (32 cores total)
• 256GB ram
• 4 x 1TB SSD in raid 10 (with room to add 6 more disks)
• 10gbit networking

While I'm ready to proceed with the upgrade, I've decided to first migrate this instance over to the new hardware. Here are two reasons.

1. Those of you who have been around long enough may remember that I've been running this instance on "borrowed" unused resources that were available at the time. There are no more resources available for this instance to grow.
2. There are reports that the latest version of lemmy may use more resources. Given we are among the bigger instances, should I end up in a situation where I need to increase resources to keep things fast I'll be restricted.

Here's the tentative timeline:

• If anything major goes wrong on the 27th I will revert back the changes and bring the instance back up on the current server.
• If anything major goes wrong on the 29th I will revert back using an earlier snapshot. If that fails, I will restore from a backup.

During these two planned events those who want to provide moral support or who want to get periodic updates are more than welcome to join us on our matrix channel

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Update February 29 2024
We've successfully completed the upgrade to v1.9.3. I'm happy to announce that we did it in an astonishing 27 minutes, a whole 93 minutes under what was expected. The extra leg work that was done over the last few weeks combined with the better hardware definitely played a part. Looking over the processes, it looks like the service responsible for images is still doing some work so it's possible that you will come across some broken images. I'll be keeping on eye on that over the next bit and make adjustments if needed. Thank you all for the support and to all of you who kept me company on our matrix channel. Have a good evening.

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Update February 27 2024
We've successfully completed the migration. I'm happy to announce that this instance is now running on its new hardware dedicated solely to this community! We experienced just under 40 minutes of downtime which is a whole 50 minutes less than expected. Please give this instance a chance to catch up what it missed but we should be good within the next 30 or so minutes. Thank you

Just wondering if we have a revised timeline is for upgrade to 0.19.x.

A couple weeks ago, the target date was "end of the week".

This past weekend, it seems like the target date is "soon".

Is there anything more specific which could be shared at this time, or perhaps a list of outstanding tasks which need to be completed before the upgrade?

As always, big thanks to the admins for keeping this instance running! Thanks for giving me a home on the Fediverse these past few months :)

English:
Would you like to help moderate our instance’s most popular community? !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works needs moderators. The current mod went silent several months ago and is presumed to have left Lemmy. If you are interested in taking their place, please comment in the pinned post in that community and we will get you started.
Edit: We found a moderator!

Français:
Désirez-vous contribuer à modérer la communauté la plus populaire de notre instance? !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works a besoin de modérateurs. Le mod actuel est silencieux depuis plusieurs mois et est présumé avoir quitté Lemmy. Si vous souhaitez prendre leur place, veuillez commenter dans la publication épinglée dans cette communauté et nous vous aiderons à débuter.
Edit : Nous avons trouvé un modérateur !

Thoughts, feelings, discussion and erotic dream journals below.

Your hard work does not go unnoticed, thank you for attention on the recent spam and keeping it off the instance and feeds. Y'all are great

For those using Private message on Lemmy, there is a major vulnerability. It seems that this instance still runs 18.5

I know that our beloved admins are volunteers and busy, so I don't blame them for not updating, but while waiting for the update be aware that your PM are as public as your comments

Does this server have a maximum file size for image uploads? I've encountered the following error when trying to post an image:

{"data":{"msg":"Exceeded maximum dimensions","files":null},"state":"success"}

If a limit exists, is it set by Lemmy as a whole, or on a per-instance basis?

Was this server down in the past day? Seems to be back now, but for a while I kept getting a 522 error. Was this planned maintenance, unplanned outage, or just me? I can't find any mention of anything happening, but it seems like there was a ~4 hour period with no new posts.

On a related note, does a sh.itjust.works community exist on another instance? Might be useful for discussion and updates when this server occasionally goes down.

Hey mah shitizens, I went to make an simple OC image post on Noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works and the "browse" image upload dialog will not open. Tried logging out, then logging back in and restarted my phone. Android, firefox, all updated recently. I also tried uploadingcit from lemmy.world. checked my android and browser media permissions. Halp

This has been a fun adventure into the fediverse and I appreciate all of you here. From the admins, to fellow users at sh.itjust.works, and further to all other users I've interacted with from other lemmy instances and beyond.

I hope you all have happy and safe celebrations tonight (or had if you're ahead) and I look forward to growing our community further n 2024!

There's that weird place discussed by the other instance's admin here:

https://lemy.lol/post/17093789

It’s a small nitherlandian instance that automated posting of christian testimonies (30k+, basically a youtube crawler by keywords, updated hourly) in one community and others are filled with conspiralogical content. Maybe they had their place somewhere before?

Haven’t seen a direct bigotry at a quick glance (closing my eyes on muslims finding christian Jesus-posts), but it looks like spreading conspiracies and serving as an ad for a cult. Is that against our rules? They sometime showed in my feed too. And they are an outright spam entity having 30k posts for like 50 users.

I think that's either a sectarian indocrination or someone being very ill in the head.

I vouch for defederating them and maybe contacting them if they need personal support.

It's exactly what some of youtubers would do a write up about a year after.

As seen in the linked thread, a two-week old comment is visible via the direct link but is no longer listed under the post itself.

(I believe there’s also a deleted reply to the comment, but I expect that behavior will be addressed via upgrade.)

Out of curiosity. For starters I'm a bit of both

On my first page of comments, I said, "Your comment was removed, I wonder why." I wanted to see the context and I kept following it back and an entire thread was missing if I go back far enough. There was no wheel of death or "deleted by user" or whatever it says. There was no removal in the mod logs. I don't think this is malice, but why aren't they keeping up the thread and just saying "removed by mod" or "deleted by user"? It's super confusing and it makes some really interesting threads just disappear. Is this instance rules or Lemmy rules?

• This is the thread I was in: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11700498
• My profile: https://sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit
• As of this post, it was 14 hours ago

Playing around with my old laptop today. Found out that Browsers are about it for Lemmy. Even though I'm on Windows 7, I said old, and can't even use my vpn surfshark, on here, shitjustworks.

It says you'll be able to block instances on a personal level, I'd like that option.

I should also say thanks for all that you guys do, I'm just checking on the status.

Found threads from six months back on the latter: https://beehaw.org/post/594843 / https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725

Wasn’t able to comment an hour or two ago. Perhaps there’s a status page somewhere?

Great job for fantastic uptime, admins, btw!

~~how can i know the de/federation status of the instance? IIRC the instance subscribed to an auto-defederation program to auto exclude bot instances and such. is there a way to distinguish these from the manual defederations? like exploding heads, or hexbear (i thought we were defederated from them but i've just seen the old posts from their users here on /c/main)~~

~~i'm asking just to have a way of knowing wich parts of the fediverse are hidden from view, since it's not obvious to me~~

also would like to know if there is a plan on the instance about threads? i've scoured The Agora but found nothing. wouldn't mind creating a discussion there

EDIT: just found the answer to my first question on another post: https://sh.itjust.works/instances

The past couple of days, I've been getting some cryptic errors when trying to upload images. Anyone else encounter this problem?

Tried to upload a jpeg:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed with status exit status: 1","files":null},"state":"success"}

Tried to upload a jpg or a png:

{"data":{"msg":"Invalid status: 503 Service Unavailable\n\n<code>Service Unavailable</code>\nServer down for maintenance\n\n","files":null},"state":"success"}

Is this planned maintenance, or a different problem?

Hi,
If you know what spam I'm talking about, I'm sorry.
If you don't, don't bother looking for it, it's honestly not worth your time.
Either way, we've taken steps to reduce the impact of such an event.
As always, if you see any, report it.   Thanks,

Bonjour,
Si vous savez de quel spam je parle, désolé.
Sinon, perdrez pas votre temps, ça en vaut la peine.
Dans un cas comme dans l'autre, nous avons pris des mesures pour limiter l'impact de ce genre d'événement.
Comme toujours, si vous en voyez, faites un signalement.
Merci,