Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,

The Lemmy instance (BlendIT) has been causing issues for a long time. Updating it is problematic—it doesn’t compile easily on FreeBSD, requires a huge amount of resources, and fails to delete old remote media. Recently, it has also started throwing unknown errors that are nearly impossible to debug.

Unfortunately, I can no longer rely on it.

I’m sad to announce that this will likely be the first BSD Cafe service to be retired. I can’t trust it at this level of reliability, I can’t let it grow indefinitely, and I can’t stop upgrading it while letting it run in this state.

I’ll take another look at it, but—though it pains me to say this—please be prepared for this possibility.

EDIT: It’s not official, yet. I’ll still try to keep this online.

  • zer0@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Nice, so it’s not hopeless.
    I suppose the “all in docker” thing, plus rust environment don’t help to make it work easily with FreeBSD.
    Anyway thank you for your effort!

    • Stefano Marinelli@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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      4 days ago

      @zer0 No, not hopeless at all. I like that instance and I don’t want to let it go. I just can’t leave it that way, so - in case of unresolveable problems - I could consider to retire it. But we’re not there.

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        21 hours ago

        Let’s spread some positive energy that will help you to solve the problem.
        Fingers crossed :-)