Hello, friends!
We're going to have to take Computer Fairies offline for an hour or two in order to sync data and transfer the server to Ariel's care.
We plan to start this more or less at 00:00 UTC on Thursday (8:00 PM EDT Wednesday) this week. We'll make a follow-up post and announcement after that work is done.
arielmt
Hey friends!
We are very happy to announce that the instance will now no longer be shutting down at the end of the year and will instead keep running, helmed by our very own @arielmt!
We're currently handing over all the relevant things and Ariel will be taking post as full and sole administrator in the near future
we welcome those (within reason, and our own personal vetoing) who would like to help keep up the instance, and we pledge to keep the instance online until the end of the year for that matter.
we thank everybody who has shown us solidarity, friendship and kindness in these past 4 years.
i, personally, will not be making a return to the fediverse if and when this instance closes, but you can find me elsewhere.
i'm sorry about the closure of computer fairies, but after 4 years of fighting the software and the external community, for as little upkeep as we strain ourselves to do these days, it still hangs around our necks like an anchor at high sea.
we'd love nothing more than to continue to provide the service for the few who we are thankful for continuing to stick with us through this whole journey to this day, but the financial and technical upkeep cannot be justified in its current state.
We wish all of you on the fediverse the best of luck.
If you'd like to keep in touch with us then you can find us on Discord at https://discord.gg/QuKf48D
Hey friends
Unfortunately all good things must come to an end, and so it is with the computerfairi.es mastodon server
We've had a good time but sadly us on the admin team can no longer give the instance the time and attention it deserves. As such, unless we can find someone willing to maintain the instance, we will be shutting down by December 31st of this year. If you would be interested in maintaining the server please get in touch with either @troubleMoney or @maplesbian@twitter.com
We should, hopefully, be done!
Now running current glitch social!
We lost the theme, but we'll be putting that back in as soon as possible
If you do happen to see any lingering issues please inform @troubleMoney
Apologies for the disruption and thank you for flying computerfairi.es
ComputerFairi.es Update
Following the recent unpleasantness mavica has permanently quit the fediverse and has deleted all of its accounts
This instance is now being run by @troubleMoney
Computer Fairies is currently semi-permanently locked for registrations due to automated spam, however, anyone is free to join with the permanent invite pinned in the news channel of our Discord server: https://discord.gg/cwn6byK
computer fairies is officially online and working! thank you to @noelle and @troubleMoney for their help in getting it all to work again in the new server
the entire underlying system is migrated, however old media prior to the migration will still be missing until it all gets migrated to our new s3 bucket, at which point we should be 100% back
Sidekiq threads have been optimized and increased, hopefully once the backlog is churned through things should start to work more smoothly. Thank you for flying Computer Fairies!
Our Sidekiq is getting a little hammered ATM and service should be unresponsive for a while until it clears up, sorry for the inconvenience
If you want to stay up to date with server announcements, report outages or just hang out with our community, join us at the Official Computer Fairies Discord! https://discord.gg/cwn6byK
Sorry for the delay! The media disk is now finally resized and we shouldn't run into the new limit so soon. Media functionality should be restored now, if you find any issues please notify us. Thank you for using Computer Fairies!
Server should be back up but we're still resizing the media disk, so media uploads are going to be broken for a while. Please enjoy a text-only Mastodon experience until the upgrade is done :P
Official admin account for https://computerfairi.es/, posts here are written by @troubleMoney and @arielmt
Inquiries here or at faye@computerfairi.es