The featureful Photon fork Tesseract is now available to use at tes.leminal.space. It has significantly advanced upon Photon's already excellent interface and really come into its own. As such, the list of features is extensive, so I encourage you to check out the repo for a full description if you're interested. Tesseract also works well on mobile, especially when installed as a PWA, so give that a try, too.

If all goes well, it's likely Photon will be retired in the next couple of weeks with Tesseract taking its place. (EDIT: This has now been implemented.)

We had an issue over the past 24 hours or so that stopped incoming federated comments from making it to the database (you may have noticed highly-upvoted posts with 0 comments). This has now been resolved and comments are being received again.

This issue should not have impacted outgoing comments reaching other instances.

Photon is now available as an alternative web front-end at photon.leminal.space - link also in the sidebar.

The image service is currently degraded while a database migration completes. It may be hit-or-miss whether images appear, but should be 100% within an hour or so.

Service may be interrupted from 6:00 UTC (~7 hours from now) due to planned updates to both the Lemmy and image service back-ends. As this is a major update for both, with each requiring database refactoring, anticipated downtime is up to two hours (but hopefully less).

If Lemmy is still up during the above period but you notice images aren’t being served or uploads are failing, it is be due to the image service being down for the update.

I'll comment here once the updates are complete.

The site will go down at roughly 3:00 UTC today (~4.5 hours from now) for a server upgrade. Downtime should last less than five minutes.

With Louise and Nina from Veruca Salt ❤️

The Lemmy base was updated to 0.18.3 on the weekend with just a couple of minutes of downtime. This version includes database efficiencies that reduced this instance's total database size by about 60%, as well as federation efficiencies that reduce CPU overhead. A big thanks to the development team for this significant update.

In other news, a Leminal Space status page has been created at status.leminal.space to show service advisories and keep track of outages. This is hosted on an external server and should work regardless of the status of the main LS server.