Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

Hey all! I haven't announced this just yet, but I'd like to make it official:

Thanks so much to @oppen and @flip for volunteering to be instance admins! They have joined @neauoire and I to help keep the instance running smoothly. I'll be updating our docs later today to mention them.

Cheers, and I hope you all are having a great day so far!

Test video upload. This is how rainy it was a few days ago!

Okay, I restarted all the processes and it looks like Sidekiq isn't reporting any further DO connectivity errors. Please let me know if you all see anything!

Test upload:

Hey all! You might be seeing some glitchiness on the instance today: looks like we are having some connectivity errors with our host, DigitalOcean. I'm taking a look and should have an update in a little bit!

Small thing: the Patreon income is a bit inflated this month because the October-November report only included October's income! If you're curious, we received $90.15 for November and $90.60 for December via Patreon.

It's been… quite the year. In spite of that, Merveilles has been a wonderful refuge from the horrors of the world.

A huge thank you to everyone on the instance, donor or no, for continuing to make this space the best corner on the internet.

If you have anything you'd like to see me focus on this year, or have any feedback for how things are being run, please let me know!

Income
Patreon: $180.75
OpenCollective: $50.11
Liberapay: $0
Ko-Fi: $28.20

Total: $259.06

Costs
DigitalOcean: $53.00

Total: $53.00

Income to Date
$2649.46

Costs to Date
$1986.88

Money left over
$662.58

I miss listening to more intense electronic music—anyone got any good gabber/hardcore they've been listening to lately? :3

@stephen Thanks a ton for those CSS changes! Those are now merged & deployed.

Put up this pull request on the merveilles-town fork: https://github.com/merveilles/merveilles-town/pull/544

This way, I'll be able to keep track of PRs in a much better way, without dealing with all the noise of every single update Dependabot pings us about.

Well then! I was going to post an expense report for the past month but the Simple bank login service is down D:

Regardless, I hope you all have a much better new year than 2020. Very excited to say goodbye to this shitshow of a year.

Nice, we're now officially on Mastodon v.3.3.0! (Though the indicator at the bottom says 3.3.2? weird!)

Anyways, enjoy all! Looks like we have a UI issue that needs adjusting with replies on the web client, but things seem to be running smoothly. Let me know if you see any issues!

Okay, I think I have things all set up for the Mastodon v3.3.0 upgrade, Merveilles! There should be no downtime, but there may be a few hiccups here and there. Our DB is backed up, the changes have been merged, so we should be ready to go in just a moment.

Cheers, y'all! :D

Hoo boy, it looks like the upgrade process to Mastodon v3.3.0 is a bit involved, so I'll have to take this one a bit slowly. There are some exciting features packed in here though! https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.3.0

This release includes these changes: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.2.2