lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months…

what happened?

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
    21·
    3 months ago

    The owner vanished and the other Admins miss the ssh keys to be able to migrate it. Also feddit.de had a partially fried database after a disk ran out of space

    • ksharp@lemmy.ml
      13·
      3 months ago

      Seriously, what’s up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?

      Not even a message saying something like “this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone.”

      • superkret@feddit.org
        22·
        3 months ago

        It wasn’t like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server’s disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.

        feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        Plenty of others too: vlemmy.net, iusearch.fyi, lemmy.film.

        That’s why people should pay attention to a few things when looking for a server

        • are there at least two admins?
        • are they communicating regularly, including on their finances
        • is there a Matrix chat or another way to reach out to them
      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        I’m very sad about kbin, I eve told Ernest that I’d volunteer with some admin work and potentially code (even if I despise PHP), but he declined, even when his health went really bad.

      • quant@leminal.spaceEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        The early internet also had personal website vanishing or being abandoned all the time. Static webpages don’t need constant maintenance but it’s more noticeable when it’s a community.