Feddit UK update: we're not going anywhere
Feddit UK update: we're not going anywhere
Hi all, sorry for a lack of updates but there's been a lot going on behind the scenes and events moved rather rapidly.
I recently posted that we were going to have to move to another instance because our only Admin was missing and problems looked to be piling up.
Fortunately, Tom dropped me a line the other day and he has updated the instance and made GreatAlbatross and myself Admins.
So the immediate crisis has been averted and we've fallen back to the original plan which was get more Admins in place and work to ensure there's no single point of failure, so any one of us could get hit by a bus (bagsy not me) and the instance will carry on.
Soooo bear with us while we thrash out the details of what else needs doing to ensure the continuity of the instance and while I figure out what all the new buttons do (hopefully not by mashing them all at once just to see what happens).
In the meantime there are likely problems that need fixing. I know, for example, that some are still having email verification problems and have been waiting a while, so I'll figure out how to resolve this and work through the pinned post here. If you have this problem then post there and we'll get it sorted.
If there are any other issues you want to flag up for attention then you can do so here or contact one of the new admins.
And, finally, thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm for this instance in the other thread and elsewhere, if the folks on here hadn't formed a great community that they felt was worth the time and effort to save we wouldn't be here now with the future looking more secure. Tom built the house but you all made it a home. So carry on...
edit 1: I'll keep tagging things on as I think of them. Firstly, we'll be keeping the Matrix space - it'll be our fallback if the server goes down and provides people with an encrypted (and private if needed) channel of communication. If you add your Matrix ID to your profile it adds a secure DMs button to your.profile, so Matrix and Lemmy are integrated to a degree.
This is going to be an interesting few days while we get to grips with everything, especially behind the scenes.
(Seeing site wide mod-queue is like staring into the void, I must say)As we know there were a lot of issues stacking up, I'm going to do my best to do a power day tomorrow. Any janitorial/administrative work that's been sitting, just blow up my inbox. Or Emperor's.
Hopefully next week we'll start to get procedures for "I'm locked out" or "This isn't against the rules, but I think it should be" type things.
(Seeing site wide mod-queue is like staring into the void, I must say)
I may have swore, although it's worth noting that not all of it is on this instance (although I suppose it kinda is because of federation), so may take some sifting.
Hopefully next week we’ll start to get procedures for “I’m locked out” or “This isn’t against the rules, but I think it should be” type things.
Yes, we are open to ideas or issues but we may also be spending some time reading the manual. If there's anything urgent then don't be shy about it, we knew it was going to be an overwhelming few weeks we'll sorted things out.
Note to self: always subscribe to the "instance news" community so chaos like this doesn't pass by unnoticed.
Great you guys managed to sort things out. Glad you'll still be around :)
I'm happy to hear that Tom is okay and I welcome our new admin overlords. 😁
I was worried that the new instance and transfer would possibly confuse people and we would lose them in the move but now that has been averted.
As the tacky merchandise would say: I'm on Feddit UK. We kept calm And carried on!
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Nice one! It's good to not have to move instance again!
Much appreciation to all those involved in keeping our instance afloat!
(Bagsy not me either!)
Congrats, I'm glad all those communities don't have to move!
I was needing a new instance the other day but rejected feddit.uk due to only having a single admin/point of failure. After seeing a few decent-sized instances vanish, I think only personal servers should have just one admin.
Yes, I think we may have missed out on a lot of members who did their homework before picking an instance, because a single Admin means it could just vanish over night. Our aim is to ensure that we are rock solid on all fronts and can keep rolling as long as people want it to.
The good thing about federation is you can still be an active member here, so I look forward to seeing you out and about.
This post has been up for a month time to consider unpinning it?
Could you make this instance have its own baked in old reddit layout with the old.feddit domain like lemmy world and others have, instead of relying on 3rd party domains like opnxng etc?
Yes, we've discussed design ideas including this and it should be relatively straightforward to implement. Hopefully, there'll be a few to choose from and we are open to suggestions about others. Keep an eye out for an announcement about it once we get everything ironed out.
Good news! Glad to hear Tom's ok.
That's great news! Thank you so much for your work on this (and thanks to Tom and GreatAlbatross too).
Good news guys. Well done for all of your hard work.
Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this, honestly, I'm not going to grumble too much because I'm not the one putting in the work - but it felt like a bit of a let-down that all this happened in the first place, and it felt like a fresh start was needed to move on.
Email issues are likely related to the lack of SPF and DMARC for the domain. It's a pretty common practice to mark domains without as spam.
The NCSC had a nice tool to check and also give you feedback on how to fix the issues.
https://emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk/results?domain=fddit.uk
Good news!!
Although I'm a little bit disappointed for not finding out what the new domain was.
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Great news all around. Although, I do feel a tiny bit sad we'll never get to see what Quackhouse could have been.
Ah yes, a real Sliding Doors moment but, hopefully, we should be able to use a lot of the ideas and enthusiasm to improve this place. Which reminds me, we need a duck community now.
The ideas won't work. Feddit UK is an awful name and we won't really be able to expand this place easily with such a name, and if we do, reddit will get annoyed with us because we are basically stealing their name. I am really disappointed that you'd kill all of our plans for Quackhouse overnight without much consultation :/