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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. in c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's the plan. More than likely a final post in each community with a link to its new home will be stickied as well.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Early on we were experimenting with trying to offer everything on the fediverse from a Lemmy instance. A lot of changes and tweaks were made to try to make that work before it was abandoned. There's a lot of leftover bloat from that project that we've been trying to deal with without too much impact to the Lemmy instance but for the size of the instance it makes more sense to start over than to spend even more time trying to undo the wrongs of the past. There isn't a specific cautionary tale here besides "don't go public with things that you hope to fix later."

More recently we've had issues with our registrar or DNS pop up that no one seems to have answers for yet, so sometimes the domain itself isn't reachable. One problem or the other might not be a huge deal in the short term but together they make for a miserable time trying to sort things out. Moving the traffic to a known good config will help me maintain sanity while dealing with the issues at WG.

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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
6 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz to c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
0 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
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MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025. (walledgarden.xyz)
 

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

  • Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.
  • What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

TLDR

  • WG is becoming a test instance.
  • Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
  • Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
  • crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
  • crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
  • Don’t test in production.
Purging communities with no local subscribers in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Lemmy has mangled that script a bit.

Lemmy seems to mangle a lot of links that aren't basic urls. SimpleX chat links break for some reason here too.

Thank you for the suggestions. At this point it seems the best option may be to just shutter this instance and start over with a fresh database instead of dealing with a bunch of nagging problems from previous experiments. I've done plenty of testing in production because for most of that time it was only me being affected by the consequences lol.

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Luther Vandross - Never Too Much (tidal.com)
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Spandau Ballet - True (Single Edit) (tidal.com)
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Barry White - Just The Way You Are (tidal.com)
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Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (tidal.com)
Black Sabbath farewell show gets even bigger – Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival Sons added to the already impressive line-up in c/music@beehaw.org
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 18 points 5 days ago

By the time Black Sabbath are due on stage it'll be past their bedtime.

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Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (tidal.com)
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Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine (tidal.com)
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Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland (tidal.com)
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Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove (tidal.com)
First driver punished under strict new FIA swearing rules | RacingNews365 in c/formula1@lemmy.world
Windows96 - "Motion" in c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Nice to see some more names posting lately, thanks for contributing!

Windows96 - "Motion" in c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

I just felt sophisticated enough to make my first post on Lemmy/in this community

Welcome, and thanks for sharing your posts and comments!

Line up for the F1 launch event in c/formula1@lemmy.world
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

Because it's about hype not substance.

Why else would they be launching fake cars?

Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You in c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

No worries mate. Normally Tidal links open a page that will let you pick what streaming service you use. The latest Lemmy update broke the auto fill information feature for those links so I've switched to sharing Tidal only links for now.

In the future I'd like to set up a bot that replies with a free link to listen no matter what service gets posted but that's probably a long way off.

Music active communities active last week in c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
The Cranberries - Zombie in c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Goats have some fucking crazy eyes

Polyphia - Crush in c/gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz
[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I can't stop listening to this song send help

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