I plan to perform the first step in the upgrades to this instance at some point between Christmas and the end of the First week in Jan, i'm not yet 100% sure exactly when, but as I have a couple of weeks off I will (at some point) have half a day to a day that I can spend to get things here mostly up to date (Probably a minor patch or two behind as I need to also update my custom fork of Mastodon before I can update to the very latest).
I'm really sorry things here have slowed down, it's become really really hard to find enough time to dedicate to those bigger projects with a lot of behind the scenes things that I've been juggling.
I am hoping to spend some time around the upgrade doing some more major work but will aim to do that at a time where we don't get as much traffic here as it will require me to take the site fully offline and to migrate the database as there has been a long term config issue meaning we drop...
a very small number of posts / display errors to a handful of posters using some special characters.
I've managed to get everything that was due to renew November / December renewed for another year, so while a large financial expense it does mean we aren't going anywhere for another year :)
I do also hope around the same time to finish getting #PixelFed setup for us (As I've been meaning to do it for a long time) and do some general TLC to the instances (here and #Universeodon) and it's underlying infrastructure. I'm hoping as part of this I can do some work to scale up some of the areas that currently struggle and scale down some of the bits that are heavily over-provisioned.
As it turns out, owning a house and also getting ready for Christmas and having more work responsibilities means free time is very slim, plus having to deal with all the financial aspects of filing tax returns and renewing a lot of hardware.
I do expect in the coming few months to have more time to dedicate so apologies again for things that have been a bit quiet!
@keefeglise Thankfully things are mostly setup to keep ticking over within reason. Updates require manual intervention but otherwise I have a mod team that work without my day to day involvement and unless we see a surge of traffic or something starts to get close to filling up I thankfully can be pretty hands off day to day which has very much helped with the need for time working on other things!
@wild1145 please no need to apologise, you are doing a fantastic job and think it is safe to say everyone here appreciates what you do for us. Thank you. Just remember to take some time out for yourself.
@wild1145 you’re doing a great job with this place and thank you for doing it. I don’t know anything about what’s behind the curtain but it’s all ticking over fine for me.
Good luck with your plans but don’t forget to have a nice break.
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