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I have recently claimed the community !chess@lemmy.ml. When I browse the original instance, my username is in the mod list. But browsing from sopuli, the mod list is empty, and I don't have access to any mod tools.

I have gotten messages from several registered users that have not received a verification email. Their accounts are not therefore verified, and they have had to resort to logging in through password reset. This seems to a problem that has sparked discussions. If you have not received a verification email, message me and I will set you verified. Check also your spam folders! I also added this to the FAQ.

Olen saanut viestejä rekisteröityneiltä käyttäjiltä, jotka eivät ole saaneet vahvistussähköpostia. Heidän tilinsä eivät ole tällöin vahvistettuja, ja he ovat joutuneet kirjautumaan kiertotietä salasanan nollauksen kautta. Tämä näyttää olevan keskustelua herättänyt ongelma. Jos et ole saanut vahvistussähköpostia, minulle voi laittaa viestiä niin asetan sinut vahvistetuksi. Katsokaa myös roskapostikansionne! Lisäsin tämän asian myös UKK:hon.

Is it possible to improve the Finnish localization? E.g. Joined is translated to "liittyi" ("it joined") which doesn't make any sense in the actual context for "being subscribed". I think "Jäsen" (member) would be better expression for clarity or at least "Liitytty" ([have been] joined).

Another weird one is "Viesti" ("message"/"communicate") for send message button. I think it feels like "a message" as a noun and not as "to message" verb. "Lähetä" ("Send") would be much more understandable for Finnish speakers.

I can only subscribe randomly. Usually when I search for the instance and click the link in search results, sometimes when I click back and forth links.

If I write the url, by hand I just see a "subscribe" text with no button functionality. How can I fix this/subscribe then?

I'm using Brave (Versio 1.48.171 Chromium: 110.0.5481.177.)

Hey there, so I registered to Sopuli recently and I'm still getting through the transition out of Reddit, I'll admit right now I'm enjoying the shit show too much to step away but once RiF stops working, I'm probably gonna be around here a lot more.

But right now my feed seems completely dead. I spent some time subscribing to some popular communities from different servers and I try browsing local, all and subscribed. Both hot and active serves me posts that are days, sometimes weeks old.

What can I do to get more content in my feed? I was just browsing the kbin front page (without an account) and was seeing fresher posts from Lemmy servers than I'm getting in Jerboa so it must be something wrong on my end and not just that's there's too little content.

When I made a post, it takes multiple tries to send it.

Most of the times the Create button on browser will spin indefinitely, needing to create the post again. When it is decided the post would be sent, it is instead sent immediately without wait.

Going to a few different servers to ask this as I think I'm going to create my own lemmy instance. Thanks! (love what you guys are doing here btw)

In October I acted carelessly and accidentally deleted Sopuli from my server when trying to update to a newer Lemmy version. Luckily I had backed up the database. However, as this GitHub issue shows, reinstalling Lemmy and restoring the backups wasn't the easiest thing to do. I got really frustrated and let the thing go for a while, partially because I was busy with other things. I didn't check Lemmy for a while. Of course, things could have been worse in case of a centralized platform.

Restoring from backups and getting Sopuli running was however on my mind nearly every week. I paid Hetzner's cloud server bills and thought "I'm not paying this for nothing." Few days back I saw that the GitHub issue had been resolved and it gave me new motivation to get Sopuli back up again. Yes, this took nearly two months and I could have been quicker but here we are now! Sopuli.xyz is back in business and I promise anything like this to happen never again!

As you can see, Sopuli is now running Lemmy's latest version 0.14.3. The only downside is that the backup made didn't include pict-rs which means that all the old pictures are gone.

I want to thank all the users of this instance who were patient while waiting for this to come back online. I also want to thank @dessalines@lemmy.ml, @wintermute@feddit.de and @nutomic@lemmy.ml for giving me advice regarding restoring this instance. Here's to you!

PS. Happy Finland's independence day!