Another day of firefighting, tweaking, capacity upgrades and thinking outside the box in order to keep this place humming. There have been intermittent outages while I squeeze out every last KB of RAM and CPU cycles on COSOCore, and for that I apologize. But... we're getting stronger, more resilient and better able to handle the loads we're seeing every day.
We have NEVER once in 5 years closed registrations to new users, something I'm seeing a lot elsewhere.
I was thinking earlier today how it's amazing you haven't had to limit access to new accounts--I'm sure there are a ton of things you could do to make it easier for you and WORSE for us.
So, thank you, for doing all that can be done to protect, preserve, and maintain this extraordinary community.
And for always keeping the community's best interests at the center of your focus.
We feel it.
Thank you, thank you.
@Minholkin @th3j35t3r Over on Twitter I have had numerous friends note that Mastodon servers/groups have closed registration because they are overwhelmed. A lot of those - probably MOST - are hobby sites unprepared for the deluge.
@LauraWalkerKC Many of them are unlikely to recover. They'll join yet other servers, cascading the inundation. @Minholkin @th3j35t3r
@kel @Minholkin @th3j35t3r I imagine a lot of those people who have set up Mastodon servers are not at all prepared for the huge expense in upgrading to handle more than 100 people. I mean, none of that is free.
@LauraWalkerKC @kel @th3j35t3r
That part sits heavily, for sure--trying to communicate the cost implications to new users without seeming strident or too pushy is tricky.
@Minholkin @kel @th3j35t3r So many people are used to free social media - but they forgot that CoSo has zero advertisers - and doesn't sell their information to any third parties. That's a HUGE distinction.
