• MexEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    If Tom doesn’t sort this soon this is likely the deathknell of this instance.

    • @[email protected]OP
      0•1 year ago

      Yup. We might want to start thinking of setting up a new instance with multiple admins and try and migrate as many communities from here over to it as we can and keep the user base.

      I’d offer to set one up but I don’t have the time to set one up or maintain it.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
        0•1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s tricky to know when to pull the trigger as Tom may spring into action any time.

        I think step one would be to rummage together a few people who would volunteer to Admin this instance if we can raise Tom, so he can slot them in if/when he reappears. That would mean we can get refederated and everything starts ticking along.

        I’ve run my own website and know PHP/MySQL but Rust is something I’ve not looked into. However, updating and doing admin stuff might be relatively straightforward. I don’t know. I’m also unreliable, so it couldn’t just be me volunteering.

        I’d offer to set one up but I don’t have the time to set one up or maintain it.

        Are you knowledgeable enough to volunteer as an admin here? I imagine duties are light and if we can get a few people onboard it shouldn’t be too bad

          • Phil K
            1•1 year ago

            Personally, I gave up when he hadn’t replied to an email I sent a month earlier.

            If you look over on the Matrix space then it looks like they are finalising a name for the new instance.

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
            1•1 year ago

            Yeah the plan is:

            • Draw up a list of volunteer Admins so if Tom came back he can slot some of them in and we can start the process of ensuring the long term survival of the instance. If that isn’t happening:
            • We spin up a new instance and those volunteers become the new admins.

            We’re on the fall-back Matrix channel discussing it. So one way or another, we will sort it out. The tricky thing is when to pull the trigger. I was hoping the new update would make Tom resurface but that hasn’t happened and we have the looming 0.19 upgrade that could start causing problems.