Basically go outside or something, we'll be back soon I hope.

Oops ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ – E

UPDATE:

Disk issues have forced an early migration to a new server which is currently underway, still no ETA but the fix is in the works at least

UPDATE 2/10/24:

It looks like the migration is complete, everything should be up and running again. Sorry for the unexpected downtime, the new server should be more stable. (⁠☞⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠☞

The first two rounds of database migrations went off without issue, thought they took a bit longer than I had anticipated. I had to re-patch a change I had made to allow the instance to talk to the connection pool for the database which I had forgotten about. Fortunately Sharkey is much quicker to build than Firefish, and the image is considerably smaller as well, which is a nice bonus. Currently the last round of migrations is running, but there's a lot of changes that need to be made so it will probably be another hour minimum before we're back online.

TLDR: everything's going fine it's just slower than I'd guessed (￣┰￣*)

What to expect during the migration

Because Firefish and Sharkey share a common ancestor the migration should go smoothly, hopefully only needed an hour or two of downtime. Currently I'm planning on that happening around noon EST on Saturday the 13^th. The majority of the time will be spent running database migrations, and one that's done there shouldn't bee much else that needs to be done.

What to expect from Sharkey

Sharkey is a soft fork of Misskey, compared to Firefish's hard fork of Misskey V12(I believe). It should have most of the features you like in Firefish, plus some of their own (user data export, listenbrainz integration 👀). There are some features that will be missing (get your quote-renotes in now), but there are also some superfluous features that have been cut down (did you know there's an NSFW-detecting machine learning model in Misskey?). All in all the user experience should be similar, with the benefit of all the development and optimization Misskey has received since Firefish forked off, hopefully making things run smoother (and perhaps a bit faster).

As always if things go south, you can check here for updates. Otherwise, see you on the flipside (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

- E

A confluence of circumstances involving SSL certificate renewal and hosting provider server migrations has rendered the postgres server kaput due to an issue currently out of my control. I don't really have an ETA right now on when it will be resolved, so check back here regularly as when I find anything out I will edit this post :(

EDIT: Dec 3, 2023

We're back in action. The root cause was that I restarted the postgres box after renewing the SSL cert, but the VPS wasn't able to restart because of an issue the provider (Capsul) was/is experiencing with IP address provisioning relating to a hardware migration. The issue had to be resolved manually by an admin so it took a while before anyone could get to it. Really this was just a perfect storm that resulted in a relatively lengthy downtime, and I don't think there was really anything I could have done differently other than simply not needing to renew a cert at the same time that Capsul was experiencing networking issues.

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