lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months…

what happened?

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      The owner vanished and the other Admins miss the ssh keys to be able to migrate it. Also feddit.de had a partially fried database after a disk ran out of space

      • ksharp@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Seriously, what’s up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?

        Not even a message saying something like “this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone.”

        • quant@leminal.spaceEnglish
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          4 months ago

          The early internet also had personal website vanishing or being abandoned all the time. Static webpages don’t need constant maintenance but it’s more noticeable when it’s a community.

        • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Plenty of others too: vlemmy.net, iusearch.fyi, lemmy.film.

          That’s why people should pay attention to a few things when looking for a server

          • are there at least two admins?
          • are they communicating regularly, including on their finances
          • is there a Matrix chat or another way to reach out to them
        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I’m very sad about kbin, I eve told Ernest that I’d volunteer with some admin work and potentially code (even if I despise PHP), but he declined, even when his health went really bad.

        • 🏴 hamid abbasi [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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          4 months ago

          Well, my experience is running a large lemmy server is pretty annoying and takes a lot of time to actually turn into a social media site with people instead of just bots and you don’t see any improvement for long times. I think after the reddit thing happened technical minded people were able to quickly launch this software but it isn’t what you expect and you eventually stop logging in.

        • superkret@feddit.org
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          4 months ago

          It wasn’t like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server’s disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.

          feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.

    • Pechente@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Absolutely. I don’t know much about the situation but it seems like the owner had some personal issues and just went radio silent on everyone up until someone made the new instance. The whole situation was definitely mishandled