Crashdoom

Network Administrator for Pawb.Social, furry, and a programmer

Mastodon: @crashdoom@furry.engineer

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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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    MAtoPawb.Social General Loungeyiffit is shutting down
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    2 days ago

    If anyone has been struggling to get a verification email:

    • Please ensure you check your spam folder (We’ve been having some mail delivery issues with AWS)
    • Send an email to network@pawb.social using the same email you created your account with, and include your username, and we’ll manually approve it in the database

    We’re working to figure out what’s going on but it seems to be a mix of issues








  • 👋 Apologies for the late reply, but we have been investigating and believe that this isn’t an isolated case.

    It initially appears like our database is being overloaded due to the vast queries that Lemmy runs for generating statistics, so we’re trialing a hardware upgrade for a new database server backed by NVMe drives to hopefully improve the throughput.

    We’re not quite ready to go live with it yet, we’re still ensuring everything is in working order and the database replicates successfully from the live copy to the new database reliably.

    We’re hoping to have this in place before the end of September and we’ll post an announcement for maintenance when we go to do the switchover, as the change will also affect furry.engineer and pawb.fun.



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    OPMAtoPawb.Social Administrative Actions[Limit] tenforward.social
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    29 days ago

    Oops, that’s entirely valid and I should have explained. A limit means that the instance is effectively hidden from view on furry.engineer and pawb.fun. All of the content still exists and can be found if searching or interacting (like following a user on tenforward.social), but won’t appear on the public timelines and won’t be recommended to our users.

    If someone from tenforward.social tries to mention someone on furry.engineer or pawb.fun, and they aren’t being followed by that person, the message may not be visible. Similarly, if someone from tenforward.social tries to follow a furry.engineer, or pawb.fun user, they’ll instead send a follow request that you’ll need to approve.