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Rage For The Machine in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 102 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fuck me, better do what they tell me!

Rage For The Machine in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh my fucking god

instances main timeline in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
trouble subscribing to covid chapo community from lemmy.ml in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

They don't appear to have federation enabled yet.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Early on we were experimenting with trying to offer everything on the fediverse from a Lemmy instance. A lot of changes and tweaks were made to try to make that work before it was abandoned. There's a lot of leftover bloat from that project that we've been trying to deal with without too much impact to the Lemmy instance but for the size of the instance it makes more sense to start over than to spend even more time trying to undo the wrongs of the past. There isn't a specific cautionary tale here besides "don't go public with things that you hope to fix later."

More recently we've had issues with our registrar or DNS pop up that no one seems to have answers for yet, so sometimes the domain itself isn't reachable. One problem or the other might not be a huge deal in the short term but together they make for a miserable time trying to sort things out. Moving the traffic to a known good config will help me maintain sanity while dealing with the issues at WG.

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
Purging communities with no local subscribers in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Lemmy has mangled that script a bit.

Lemmy seems to mangle a lot of links that aren't basic urls. SimpleX chat links break for some reason here too.

Thank you for the suggestions. At this point it seems the best option may be to just shutter this instance and start over with a fresh database instead of dealing with a bunch of nagging problems from previous experiments. I've done plenty of testing in production because for most of that time it was only me being affected by the consequences lol.

Black Sabbath farewell show gets even bigger – Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival Sons added to the already impressive line-up in c/music@beehaw.org
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 18 points 4 months ago

By the time Black Sabbath are due on stage it'll be past their bedtime.

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Purging communities with no local subscribers (walledgarden.xyz)
 

TLDR- Is there another/better way to purge communities from the database besides doing it one at a time from the webui?

I tried getting a list of communities with curl by adding subscribers_local=0 to the string since that's how they show up in the DB but it doesn't seem to be recognized at all, and the request returns all communities that meet the other criteria. That pretty much kills purging via API since I would have to do it one at a time and manually compile the list...Is there a better/faster/less manual way to somehow purge communities based on that criteria besides finding them from the webui and purging them one at a time? This is for hundreds of communities so any level of automation would help.

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Ongoing Site Maintenance Update - Testing paused while things catch up. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
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TLDR UPDATE: Lemmy.world is ~9hrs behind and catching back up. We won't be making any more changes until this is completed.

Original Post:

Please be aware that we are undergoing some maintenance and configuration testing with our host. Instance performance may be a little unstable.

As some of you may know we've been troubleshooting sync issues with several instances but mainly lemmy.world. After a week of experimenting we were able to get everything caught back up and we are now working to optimize instance performance in a way that maintains the sync. The short explanation is that lemmy.world is running an older version of Lemmy that only processes about half the information an instance on a more modern build of Lemmy does per exchange. This leads to a problem where you must be able to match the sending rate of the largest instance or else they fall out of sync and eventually cause more problems as it falls further behind.

There may be a couple of extended restarts over the next couple days as we adjust and readjust to get things right. As always feel free to report any problems here or via DM. Your patience is always greatly appreciated, thank you.

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PSA - Broken title suggestions and link preview thumbnails (walledgarden.xyz)
 

Hello again,

Some unfortunate news to pass along this time. As the title implies WG is suffering from an issue that has broken automatic title lookups/suggestions and preview thumbnails for posts. This coincided with our update to Lemmy 19.9. After confirming things were working correctly with our host we are now investigating the issue further. Our host believes it may be a bug with the latest Lemmy buiild but since this was a security update it would be unwise to roll back to 19.8.

I'll try to keep this post updated with anything new as more information is available. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Rice - veg - lentils in c/homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

Sometimes the nature of Lemmy means stumbling into places you aren't familiar with and doing something silly. I would hope that most of these type comments are meant to engage with the community as new friends who missed the sidebar while looking at tasty food pics, but you never know.

Rice - veg - lentils in c/homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
Lemmy Release v0.19.9 in c/announcements@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

Very nice. Thank you for the continued work.

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Community Clean Up (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
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Hello again,

Today we'll be doing some database management and pruning some of the communities that are obviously abandoned or inactive. We're prioritizing the removal of communities that our members aren't subscribed to so the impact to most of you should be minimal. If we happen to remove a community you were subscribed by accident you should be able to resubscribe to them without issue.

This maintenance will be happening off and on over the next several days. Expect an instance restart or two here and there. The restarts only take a few seconds so if you run into an error just give it a second or two and try again.

As always feel free to report any wonky behavior here or DM me. Thanks for your patience.

Does lemmy crop photos rectangular? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Maybe it's part of your instance image policy?

From the sidebar

Edit - Need coffee and weed before getting on Lemmy. I can't read apparently and missed that you tried this on your own instance as well. My bad.

vegantheoryclub might be broken! in c/homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see. I'm confused as to why anyone would ever try to subscribe this way, but whatever I guess. At least it's minor.

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EDIT: Maintenance completed. Thank you for your patience. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitycorkboard@walledgarden.xyz
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Hello all,

We're adding additional resources to the server and making some configuration changes today that will require a brief restart or two. During the restarts you may be unable to use your local account, and our communities and hosted images may be briefly unavailable. The restarts should come and go within a few minutes of this post.

Apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for understanding.

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Maintenance Completed. Registrations back open. (walledgarden.xyz)
 

The migration to our new email service has been completed and registration is back open. Thanks for your patience!

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Shelf to table? Lentils AF (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
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I sprouted some lentils and let them grow into greens instead of eating them as soon as they had tails this time and HOLY CRAP have I been missing out. The fresh greens have a taste that's very similar to fresh snow peas and I am IN LOVE. They worked out great in this simple stir fry of onions, garlic, lentils, sesame seeds, and spices. Full size pics below.

Sprouts that I totally haven't been snacking on every time I mist them...

Sprouts

Tasty lunch with the same sprouts.

Yum

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WG Update Dec 28th Edition (walledgarden.xyz)
 

Hello again All! Back with another instance update.

Instance performance and stability

Some of you may have noticed thumbnails that aren't populating correctly, images that don't load, and occasionally even the inability to upload images here. Unfortunately we're dealing with some problems with our Pict-rs service crashing again. This problem is originating at our host and there is nothing we can do about it until the cause is found and corrected. Something upstream is causing a database to corrupt which in turn causes the Pict-rs crash. Our hosting service is aware of it and working diligently to get it corrected.

Other News

Things have been fairly quiet through this holiday season. Here's a quick recap of happenings on WG.

  • !weedtime@walledgarden.xyz has been seeing more and more users participating and even branched out to more than memes! We were previously maintaining a Matrix room to hang out and BS outside of Lemmy, now we are migrating to SimpleX Chat. You can find the post with a link to join the room here.

  • !gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz has been seeing more action than ever and it's wonderful! Reading people's concert stories and swapping covers of favorite songs has been great. Stop by and let us know what you're listening to!

  • !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz continues slow and steady growth but we had a great laugh this week when someone new dropped an awesome meme on us. Head on over to see what you're missing!

  • !pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz Just launched this week to celebrate the recently released Pokemon card game on mobile. It's been a real nostalgia hit to see and play with artwork and characters from years ago. The game itself is very addicting too and great fun to play if deck building and pack opening is your thing. You're invited to check it out but be careful, you might just get sucked in!

Finally, a reminder that new member registration at WG is open and we'd love to have a few more people around. The past month or so has been spent getting the site ready for people who might be new to Lemmy and the fediverse but veteran users are of course welcome too. Spend a few minutes checking out the !helpfaq@walledgarden.xyz section before deciding if this is the place for you.

See you around!

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Got the pokemon bug? What about Bug type pokemon? Both are perfect for !pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz (walledgarden.xyz)
 

I've been enjoying playing the new mobile pokemon game enough that I decided to spin up a community on WG for it.

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz is a new space to share what's happening on your adventure to collect them all! So far I've been sharing some of the pulls I've been getting and a couple of us have been chatting about the game.

More people are always welcome to join in the conversation with their own pulls, questions, comments, etc. See you around!

Preemptively going to add that I already know other pokemon communities exist on the fediverse that can and probably do cover this game. I have no interest in merging with them or anything like that. I'm ok with this community never being popular as a trade off for me to post things that might be too spammy for other communities.

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