Hi all, sorry for a lack of updates but there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes and events moved rather rapidly.
I recently posted that we were going to have to move to another instance because our only Admin was missing and problems looked to be piling up.
Fortunately, Tom dropped me a line the other day and he has updated the instance and made GreatAlbatross and myself Admins.
So the immediate crisis has been averted and we’ve fallen back to the original plan which was get more Admins in place and work to ensure there’s no single point of failure, so any one of us could get hit by a bus (bagsy not me) and the instance will carry on.
Soooo bear with us while we thrash out the details of what else needs doing to ensure the continuity of the instance and while I figure out what all the new buttons do (hopefully not by mashing them all at once just to see what happens).
In the meantime there are likely problems that need fixing. I know, for example, that some are still having email verification problems and have been waiting a while, so I’ll figure out how to resolve this and work through the pinned post here. If you have this problem then post there and we’ll get it sorted.
If there are any other issues you want to flag up for attention then you can do so here or contact one of the new admins.
And, finally, thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm for this instance in the other thread and elsewhere, if the folks on here hadn’t formed a great community that they felt was worth the time and effort to save we wouldn’t be here now with the future looking more secure. Tom built the house but you all made it a home. So carry on…
edit 1: I’ll keep tagging things on as I think of them. Firstly, we’ll be keeping the Matrix space - it’ll be our fallback if the server goes down and provides people with an encrypted (and private if needed) channel of communication. If you add your Matrix ID to your profile it adds a secure DMs button to your.profile, so Matrix and Lemmy are integrated to a degree.
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we are saved \o/
Good news! Glad to hear Tom’s ok.
This post has been up for a month time to consider unpinning it?
Could you make this instance have its own baked in old reddit layout with the old.feddit domain like lemmy world and others have, instead of relying on 3rd party domains like opnxng etc?
Yes, we’ve discussed design ideas including this and it should be relatively straightforward to implement. Hopefully, there’ll be a few to choose from and we are open to suggestions about others. Keep an eye out for an announcement about it once we get everything ironed out.
Good news guys. Well done for all of your hard work.
Great stuff. Good on you all for keeping this place alive.
Yay great news!
Praise be!
Thanks for the updates and the hard work. You’re doing an amazing job!
Congrats, I’m glad all those communities don’t have to move!
I was needing a new instance the other day but rejected feddit.uk due to only having a single admin/point of failure. After seeing a few decent-sized instances vanish, I think only personal servers should have just one admin.
Yes, I think we may have missed out on a lot of members who did their homework before picking an instance, because a single Admin means it could just vanish over night. Our aim is to ensure that we are rock solid on all fronts and can keep rolling as long as people want it to.
The good thing about federation is you can still be an active member here, so I look forward to seeing you out and about.
Great news!
Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this, honestly, I’m not going to grumble too much because I’m not the one putting in the work - but it felt like a bit of a let-down that all this happened in the first place, and it felt like a fresh start was needed to move on.
You’re still free to move instance if you want :)
I already moved 25 days ago when it became clear it was abandoned. The decision is whether to come back, I hoped I would despite my small complaint, but your comment isn’t exactly making me feel any warmer here…
Oh nice! Where did you move to? Also - It might feel like a let down that the admin was gone, I’m sure he was just busy - but it’s very unlikely to happen again now that there are multiple admins so I think the issue is resolved, really!
I don’t want to say anything inflammatory since something terrible might have happened to Tom that we don’t know - but it’s definitely not OK to start a community like this, get everyone on-board and established, then fail to appoint admins and disappear without explanation (even if busy) leaving other people to pick up the pieces, unless there’s a very good reason.
And to be honest I’m surprised I seem to be the only one saying that - maybe an explanation from him (if appropriate to share) would smooth things over. I was genuinely excited about the new instance as an opportunity for the UK communities on Lemmy to put a bad situation behind us and move on.
This is going to be an interesting few days while we get to grips with everything, especially behind the scenes.
(Seeing site wide mod-queue is like staring into the void, I must say)As we know there were a lot of issues stacking up, I’m going to do my best to do a power day tomorrow. Any janitorial/administrative work that’s been sitting, just blow up my inbox. Or Emperor’s.
Hopefully next week we’ll start to get procedures for “I’m locked out” or “This isn’t against the rules, but I think it should be” type things.
(Seeing site wide mod-queue is like staring into the void, I must say)
I may have swore, although it’s worth noting that not all of it is on this instance (although I suppose it kinda is because of federation), so may take some sifting.
Hopefully next week we’ll start to get procedures for “I’m locked out” or “This isn’t against the rules, but I think it should be” type things.
Yes, we are open to ideas or issues but we may also be spending some time reading the manual. If there’s anything urgent then don’t be shy about it, we knew it was going to be an overwhelming few weeks we’ll sorted things out.
That’s great news! Thank you so much for your work on this (and thanks to Tom and GreatAlbatross too).
Great news all around. Although, I do feel a tiny bit sad we’ll never get to see what Quackhouse could have been.
Ah yes, a real Sliding Doors moment but, hopefully, we should be able to use a lot of the ideas and enthusiasm to improve this place. Which reminds me, we need a duck community now.
The ideas won’t work. Feddit UK is an awful name and we won’t really be able to expand this place easily with such a name, and if we do, reddit will get annoyed with us because we are basically stealing their name. I am really disappointed that you’d kill all of our plans for Quackhouse overnight without much consultation :/
I’m sorry but Quackhouse is a terrible name.
And “Federated Reddit UK” AKA “Feddit UK” isn’t? Quackhouse was also chosen by community members in the matrix chat, it wasn’t even my idea
With the greatest respect: what the fuck is a “matrix chat”, and what does it have to do with this Lemmy instance?
I’m neither particularly attached to nor offended by the current instance name, but if we’re going to choose a new one it should probably be done by users of the actual Lemmy instance itself…
People will buy up the domain that we decide upon if we do it publicly. It was decided upon by lemmy users of this instance. We just did it in a chatroom to stop people from domain sniping. The link was posted on here by Emperor. We had around 20 members of the community on there
No, it’s fine.
The “community” is here, not a matrix chat.
Nothing prevents you setting up your own instance. In fact, I’d say you probably should. If you’ve invested so much into this name already, then you may as well.
Compared to Reddit we’re a tiny blip, there’s no way they’ll ever care about our name and even if they do I doubt it constitutes trademark infringement
“we are” is present tense. We cannot guarantee nor should we plan around being tiny and insignificant
You’re talking about what we currently are. This post is about the future.
You seem to be a absorbing a lot of down votes but you are completely correct - feddit.uk is an uninspiring identity. What does it mean? Federated Reddit UK?
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If so that’s blatantly imposing on Reddit’s IP/ trademark.
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The average user really doesn’t care about federation so it seems pointless to include it as part of a brand.
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feddit.uk seems to imply some relationship with feddit.de and similar domains. Not only is that open to confusion, but it could be a bit of a minefield if (when) one of them falls into controversy.
Yep. I made a full post on here proposing the name change. Please check it out if you have the time. But you’ve basically nailed it, plus added the relationship for feddit.de
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Email issues are likely related to the lack of SPF and DMARC for the domain. It’s a pretty common practice to mark domains without as spam.
The NCSC had a nice tool to check and also give you feedback on how to fix the issues.
https://emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk/results?domain=fddit.uk
This is high on the to-do list, though I believe SPF is already in place. (There might be a typo in your URL!)
Yes you are correct I did not notice that. Great to see that it’s in hand though.
