Sunsetting Waveform.social

Hi there,

I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don’t have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.

For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:

  1. Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
  2. Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage… Twice.
  3. Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.

I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.

eugene1970,

I’ve been using this instance as a home for a while as a nice and place to be. Sorry to hear about all the trouble and thank you for all of your effort.

MatjoeP,

Oh no… I just started to invest a bit of time in the Community… What would be the best way to transfer a Community into another instance?

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Sad to see this community go. lemmy.studio would probably be a good home for those people and communities that still need homes.

inihaw,

thank you 🙏🏽

Binette,

Thank you very much for keeping it active until now! It’s not easy to manage a server, so I appreciate your efforts to maintain it and understand how hard it is to do it alone.

See you guys!

doomer,

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had to deal with all of that. I completely understand the decision, though. Thank you for all of the effort you have put into this.

Maybe we could make a community on another lemmy instance, sort of in commemoration? I’m always open for more music communities.

HellAwaits,

Was the white noise those stupid posts with the 30 year old man with a pacifier in his mouth with a bunch of random words?

I’ve seen those everywhere and it’s pathetic someone who’s angry they can’t get any action is doing this.

ChappIO,

No it was a repeated upload of literal white noise images. Not even posts, just files uploaded.

omglongitude,

Thanks for everything. Enjoyed my time here. Keep up the piano, drums, and music!

caska,

thanks for your time! all the best!

SpicyLiquidJar,

Thanks for setting it up and running it while you could.

BareHandedPoopScoop,

Is there anything we can do to help?

ChappIO,

Not really. I could host this in a more robust place but the costs would be prohibitive.

Of course, you could let everyone know where you’re going. I might follow too. There’s some talk in this post about a discord server.

Shadowbait,

It was nice while it lasted, thanks for all the effort you put in!

So, where are you going next? There are at least a few sizeable synth forums out there, and it might be nice if most of us migrated to the same place. I’ve been back on Reddit a bit, but not sure I want to continue that.

Shadowbait,

Just a thought - we could start a Discord server. It’s not really the same kind of medium, but could still have channels for different topics (music production, synthesizers, etc.) and much easier to maintain I think.

ChappIO,

With the new forum feature of discord this might not be a bad idea.

Let me know if you’ll follow through. I’d probably join.

BareHandedPoopScoop,

Discord is so messy. If you come back after a few weeks or months, it’s difficult to get a handle on what’s been happening.

This is a shame. I’ll look into more robust hosting. How prohibitive a cost are we talking about roughly?

ChappIO,

Probably around 300 USD a month

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Wow

Shadowbait,

I created a server. I haven’t done much setup yet, but if anyone wants to join: discord.gg/CsGN9zzC

can,

Since we’re here, shouldn’t we take this opportunity to make a Matrix chat instead? Private, centralized services are iffy. There’s good apps too. I like Element but I haven’t really tried the alternatives.

Shadowbait,

I’m not opposed to whatever someone else wants to set up, I just mentioned Discord because it seemed like a low-effort solution. The upside to a corporation running it is that DDOS prevention and such are someone else’s problem.

can,

I’m not as familiar with matrix as I am Lemmy, but we could just start a room (or several) on a reliable preexisting server

BlueEther,
@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz avatar

From one small instance owner to another, I’m sorry that it has come to this for you

can,

I’m sure this wasn’t an easy decision to make. Thank you for your time and energy up to this point.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Sorry to hear!

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