Hey everyone,

I’m your local server godess. I usually sit in the background doing things, while my lovely partner @ada does her thing moderating the server, but I do pop in every now and then to let you know when important things happen like the server gets an upgrade etc.

So earlier today we were running a slightly old version of lemmy on the same hardware as the database server, which started causing problems as our instance has grown significantly over the last few days.

So tonight we’re running a freshly upgraded lemmy 0.17.4, moved onto its own dedicated server instance.

Hopefully this should resolve the issues we were having and let me or Ada know if you notice any issues or glitches.

Also Ada has relented and setup a ko-fi donations page for those that want to donate AND can afford it.

We want to stress that we are running these instances to support our community, so the last thing we want is to add financial stress to the members of that community.

If you’re privileged enough to be able to help with a donation without causing yourself financial stress, you’re welcome to help cover some of the running costs. But if you’re not, please do not feel any obligation to do so as that would undermine the goal behind creating these spaces in the first place. We’d rather keep covering the costs ourselves than pull funds away from the members of our community that need it.

Lots of love! Kaity (and Ada).

  • CynAq@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    I have a confession to make, and I think it’s hilarious.

    I was out of the loop as to what Blåhaj was, and seeing it written as blahaj in the URLs, I thought it had something to do with the fitness youtuber Jason Blaha.

    That said, this looks like an amazing community. I wish everyone all the best!

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      We’re running at around 800 a month at the moment, but that’s with 4 instances, none of which are sharing hardware anymore. That being said, we’re deliberately over resourced at the moment until lemmy and kbin settle down and we get a better feel for what they need.

  • Scurvotron@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Thanks Kaity.

    Since the upgrade I get SytaxError string does not match the expected pattern when I try to upload an image any idea?

  • skye@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    yay! thx for ur hard work Kaity and Ada! i know that sudden large waves of new users can cause a lot of stress when running servers and platforms like this, it’s awesome of u folks to provide this space for lgbtq+ folk

    also, sorry if this is not an appropriate place to ask, but you mentioned running these instances to “support your community” and when i signed up here i also signed up for the Calckey instance cuz i had been thinking about trying out Calckey for a while and figured i may as well. i was wondering last night while browsing on the Calckey instance if ya’ll are running an established community around something you do otherwise that has existed for a while or if it’s fairly new and has grown mostly because of the Reddit migrators. i noticed an announcement on the Calckey instance that mentioned something about your other projects, which is another reason i’m wondering. mostly im wondering, is there like a Discord or (better for me) a Matrix, Revolt, or Guilded? or anything like that? or when you mention other projects are you mostly referencing, like, software and stuff that you’ve developed? in which case also, is there a place i can check it out?

    i joined here as a reddit user looking for alternatives and im a socialist and anarchist and lgbtq+ so this seemed like a fitting instance for me lol but this community seems neat and if there’s more places to interact with it or engage with ya’ll’s content i’m interested in learning more basically x3

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Blahaj Zone isn’t attached to any particular community before it.

      We currently run a Friendica instance, a Calckey/Hajkey instance and a Lemmy instance. We have a kbin instance that should hopefully be turned on later today.

      Project wise, aside from our instances, the main project is Hajkey itself.

      We don’t have a discord community or the like, but there is nothing stopping you from spinning up an unofficial one if you like. I used to be active on Discord (and previously owned the TransLater discord community), but Discord has lost its shine for me recently.

      • skye@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        okay, awesome thx :3

        idk if i will create one, i don’t really like running stuff, but i’d probably join a chat community if someone else does. especially if it’s on Matrix or Revolt!

  • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the update and thanks for all the work you’re doing to give everyone on this server a great home in the fediverse 😄