The server hosting the database crashed for a still unknown reason. Sometime around 5 am MT, the database server had a kernel panic and locked up, it’s been like that since then until we woke up to the alert this morning.

We’ve got a watchdog on the server and an auto-restart in case it hangs, and we’re working to migrate it away to a known stable server while we troubleshoot.

Honestly, like you said, I genuinely have no idea what the US will do; Currently things are being so shaken up that anything is plausible right now.

For outside the US, I don’t really know what reach other countries have. The UK’s Online Safety Act is the current one I’m watching for since that would require “highly effective age assurance” which… if the folks writing the law had been online like, ever, they’ll have realized is an utterly stupid statement unless they plan to enforce integrating ID Verification via a Credit Agency (Experian, Equifax) which does personal question-based verification (which imo is a huge breach of user privacy since while WE might not know who you are still, the credit agency does and where you signed up).

Yes, several US states along with other nations have been considering porn ban laws, along with the rather blatant anti-LGBTQ stance of the currently elected US party.

In the works! We’re planning to have some info very soon, though we’re still building out an improvement for the NAS to allow us to expand the storage capacity for long term, high size file storage specifically for Pixelfed!

Time (if it’s been persistent for a while), what you were trying to do, what content you were interacting with, etc.

If you’ve got network logs from it, that’d be a cherry on top! Though for the most part, it’ll be our local logs I’ll need to correlate your issues with in order to figure out what happened.

Previously, we were just operating under myself as a sole proprietor. I hadn’t formalized things as I hadn’t expected the big growth, but we’re big enough to justify it to ensure the long-term security of all of our instances, as well as my own personal protection against the changing political climate.

Yeah, it’s been on my plate for a while, and honestly I really should have

Yeah, I have to admit, I spent a while trying to workshop how to make it sound less ominous and I’m really sorry I failed in that; Definitely something for me to work on in the future, and I apologize for it coming across rather legal and scary.

Hi! Apologies for the delay on seeing this; Yes, if this continues to happen, please also @-mention myself or @natebluehooves@pawb.social so we get alerted to it and can investigate.

I’m hoping performance has improved as we haven’t been doing any major work on the infrastructure in quite a while so I’d be concerned if we’re having slow downs again, though that may have been due to the beta version we were previously running.

Apologies for the delay – We’re up to date now!

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I made a big postmortem on it over at https://pawb.social/post/15732006 :3

Really glad to hear! Please do let us know if you encounter any problems! (CC @natebluehooves@pawb.social :3)

I THINK I’VE SOLVED THE MYSTERY.

I wonder if it’s only if you’re responding to someone else…

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