Sal
@Sal@mander.xyz
- Comment on The 'Heinz Beans' post isn't visible in mander. 2 weeks ago:
Not intentional!
Took a bit of digging. The post was federated, but it showed up to me as “Removed by mod”:
Looking through the post’s moderation history, I find that the user was banned from community and then unbanned. I also see some removed posts from that same author to that same community around that same time.
My guess is that the most was removed by mod, then restored, but only the removal federated through and not the restore.
I have manually restored it, so you should be able to find it now: mander.xyz/post/977581/19535554
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
You are a radical vegan
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the universe consists of mostly empty space and the infinitely thin cut passess between sub-atomic particles, barely tickling the vacuum fluctuations
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
Vaccines cure autism
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
But me and you don’t want the same things
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
But a sociopath
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
Permanently magnetized
- Comment on I found Sal. 1 month ago:
Ahh thanks! Great to go back to those days. Really miss recording that show.
- Comment on I found Sal. 1 month ago:
The end of what? When I go to that video on Youtube I enter a continuous ‘live stream’ with no end.
- Comment on I found Sal. 1 month ago:
Are the mods just going to sit there and do nothing while jared doxes me!!!
That ‘every episode compilation’ is great! Skipped through it trying to find my appearance (no success yet) and found many skits I have never seen before.
- Comment on Can we get a lichen/lichenology community? 1 month ago:
No need to be approved! Please, 100%, would love a Lichens community!
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 1 month ago:
That is perfectly understandable! The Internet Archive is a worthy project to donate to!
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 1 month ago:
That would be awesome! But, of course, always be mindful of your own needs first and it is OK to pick. The fact that you are supporting something through donations is already cool of you. Wikipedia is also a great project to donate to.
- Comment on Lemmy needs more donations 1 month ago:
That’s fair. I have a generally positive opinion of the devs even if I disagree with some of their views. Moderating is not easy, and especially not when you get into heated political territory - that’s why personally I “cheat” a bit by dissuading politics within this instance ;) A small select list of mod actions is not something that sways my opinion. It is tricky to process some reports and sometimes we can make bad calls.
But it is true that this context will affect someone else’s opinion differently, so it is good for others to be aware of some of this context before deciding to donate.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mander@mander.xyz | 33 comments
- Comment on Plans to update? 1 month ago:
Sometimes it is also just good or bad luck. This time I got lucky. Last month this instance had about a month of problems because the image hosting provider’s services came down unexpectedly and they took over 3 weeks to fix the issue. I think it is a good idea to have accounts on different instances - and even better - one can create a single-person instance and use that to interact.
Thanks a lot! I appreciate the gesture of donating but it is not necessary, it is not expensive and I have not gone through the process of setting up a donation system. My recommendation in general is to donate to the development directly if you would like to support the lemmy ecosystem: join-lemmy.org/donate
- Comment on Plans to update? 1 month ago:
It is done now :) Sorry for the delay!
- Comment on Instance will be upgraded to v0.19.11, expect several minutes of downtime about 30 minutes from now 1 month ago:
Done!
- Comment on Plans to update? 1 month ago:
I will upgrade in a few minutes. From what I have read it might take several minutes.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mander@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on This place is back online! 2 months ago:
AAAHHHH 😭 Such a relief. This was stressful.
The websites makes use of Contabo’s object storage service for storing and serving images. Earlier during the month, I got an e-mail saying that there would be a 12-hour downtime window due to a migration. Alright, no problem.
A bit before this users reported problems with uploads. I figured this was related to the migration.
After the “migration”, images still caused problems due to some “administrative rule” preventing uploads. I sent messages daily to Contabo. At first they were responding that “their engineers were looking into it, that this was related to the migration, and that they had no time estimate”. OK, I can be patient…
After a few days I lost some of my patience and pressed them more often, until they started sending me generic messages and eventually saying that “the problems were already fixed” and suggesting it may be some configuration error on my side.
This is where it got stressful, because my knowledge of the implementation of the images back-end is superficial. So… That meant I would need to study the details and either fix it myself or show proof that it was their fault.
These past few days I have tried to do some reading and tested configuration changes, but I am the kind of person that puts too much on their plate and I have been quite busy, so this has been an additional stress point.
Today, images suddenly started working (until it came down again due to some logs piling up). This tells me that it was not a configuration issue and it was with high probability something on Contabo’s side that they fixed today. Uploads are working as well now. Contabo support never shared any information about the specifics of what went wrong, so I don’t know.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t need to study the details, but at least now the pressure is lower. My plan now is to do some studying on how images are stored and served and once I have a good understanding I can migrate the instance to a dedicated server. I will also look into techniques for making a server more resilient when things do go wrong.
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 2 months ago:
Yes, it is pretty frustrating.
I keep sending them messages every day. Today’s reply:
This is connected to the migration and there is no ETA currently.
Not very happy with them. I am looking into how to move the images somewhere else.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
Thanks! <3 Cost is not the issue. The reason why I selected this option was because it seemed a good choice at the time. Moving the image database around is a bit of a hassle so I chose to just keep it as it was even after learning of other options. Last time it took several days of downtime to move the images over because the transfer speed into/out of the object storage is very low.
If I would have known that this would happen now, I might have taken this opportunity to move all the images over. But I was not expecting this amount of downtime. Now I worry that trying to move images from one place to another when the object storage is acting up is risky, and also I am busy.
I sent another message to support this morning and received:
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please note that our technicians are working diligently on this matter, there is no ETA.
Sorry 😓
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 3 months ago:
I hope so!!
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
They are cheap. But I think that at the current total cost I would be able to improve performance while keeping cost about the same by migrating the instance to a dedicated server instead of a VPS + object storage.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
Only that I am frustrated at the object storage provider (Contabo), and now I see why their reputation is not great. Their reply was that they sent a warning about the “12 hour downtime during March 10th”… but obviously these effects have extended both to before and after this “12 hour downtime”. At least I got confirmation that this problem is due to their migration.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
I contacted support this morning as the issue persists. They confirmed that it is related to their migration, but they have not been able to give me a specific time for when it will be resolved.
- Submitted 3 months ago to mander@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
I think it is the object storage provider… I see that there is a scheduled migration for 12 hours March 10th, but I suspect that they may have already started moving things around.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 3 months ago:
Thanks. I have not changed anything recently. I am also blocked from uploading. Not sure yet what the problem is, I am looking into it.
