After a month and a half downtime all the users will have moved on to other instances. This is essentially a death sentence for the instance and its communities.

Mobile Apps need an API too.

why does everything need a mobile app?

(speaking as a slrpnk user): Another backup communication strategy (once things are backup) might be to designate somewhere on a non-slrpnk instance as a place where people can check for updates if things go down; when I first discovered the outage, I wasn't sure where to go to check for info/updates.

Unrelatedly, I hope that this unexpected outage isn't causing you or other admins too much stress. Whilst the extended nature of this outage is unfortunate, I respect that you're using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more robust solution. This kind of resilience focussed response is a key part of the solarpunk ethos, in my view.

Some people have said that such a long outage seems likely to kill an instance, but for my part, this community is worth waiting for — I have enjoyed having an account on this instance because it feels like the perfect blend of small enough to have a distinct culture and ethos, but is large enough to be robust and diverse.

I think the migration to Piefed would be worse. Piefed is great, but needs better App support for Lemmy users to migrate. A merge of the Thunder fork into main Thunder would get the ball rolling.

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It's not just native Apps. Alternative web UIs like Thunder, Photon and Voyager need them too.

yes, but those frontends are typically tied closer to the backend than a public API.

things like CSRF can help block abuse of the back end.

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It wouldn’t be meme-worthy were it lossless.

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Slrpnk.net admin here.

The failure seems to have been in the main firewall, if it had been the server itself we could have easily restored it on another server from the backups on another machine. But as it stands, remote access is entirely cut off.

There usually is another person with hardware access, but they are on summer holidays. This seemed like an acceptable risk at the time...

An off-site backup would have been nice of course, but due to the costs involved in running an Lemmy instance of that size on a rented server, it would have not been a great option either.

I have plans to add a KVM to the main firewall via a secondary connection, but even that might have not helped in this case. I'll know more when I have physical access again.

It's clearly "slurp nook," that nook where you can go to slurp soup as loudly as you want without being judged.

Don't pull a feddit.de on people, alright?

Nope they all use the public API. Even the default Lemmy web client.

What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.

What exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn't use it for a month or so and then it was gone.

Slrpnk.net admin here.

The failure seems to have been in the main firewall, if it had been the server itself we could have easily restored it on another server from the backups on another machine. But as it stands, remote access is entirely cut off.

There usually is another person with hardware access, but they are on summer holidays. This seemed like an acceptable risk at the time...

An off-site backup would have been nice of course, but due to the costs involved in running an Lemmy instance of that size on a rented server, it would have not been a great option either.

I have plans to add a KVM to the main firewall via a secondary connection, but even that might have not helped in this case. I'll know more when I have physical access again.

The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges.
He then went on a "business trip" or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories.
Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn't do a thing and none could contact the admin.
There are some rumours that he wasn't who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that.
As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)

A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.

What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.