Are we slow rolling sync with other servers, or is this just normal behavior?

Both! When we were down, content didn’t federate to us. The servers trying to send that content to us will then retry and send it again, and each time it fails, they wait longer until they try again the next time. As a result, the stuff we missed will start rolling in at different times, depending on which instance it’s coming from.

But also, it’s normal behaviour for vote counts to differ, because we ignore downvotes, most other instances don’t. We have defederate some instances, which other instances may not have (or vice versa) and as a result, we will show different vote totals because we don’t have the same voting sources.

So your response to Rimus actions is to fuck over hundreds of people, whilst judging his behaviour and seeing your own as righteous?

This was a dick move.

Normally, if it were a complete outage, we’d simply have stuck an outage notice up on the domains. In this case, it wasn’t an outage initially, but just a really laggy database, so we left the services up. Once we realised that wasn’t going to work, and we had to pull services down to fix the DB issue, we put up announcement pages on most of the services

We are basically down at the moment, as our two database servers had a cascading issue. One went down and took down the other.

Our backup DB server is still up and running, but it’s running on slower disks (with more space) and it’s currently serving all of our instances and re-syncing the main two DB servers, so whilst that’s happening, everything is really slow. It will be another 12 to 18 hours before it all syncs up again.

That being said, the site you are looking at for uptime information seems to be getting confused about our uptime, probably because we use dedicated regional endpoints. Until the DB issues in the last few days, our uptime has solid despite lestat saying otherwise.

Because I value community, and I’m not interested in a community filtered through the interests of a profit driven company

I see you speak my language

I’ve removed a bunch of comments from this thread.

The “but” in this meme means “But there are instances where I don’t support a trans person’s identity/equal rights”. It means that there is never a scenario where you think it’s ok to suggest that trans people should have less rights than cis people, and that there is never a scenario where you think it’s ok to invalidate a trans persons identity.

If your reply is something along the signs of supporting the “but…” because you think “actually, there are some shitty trans people”, then cool, we know, but this isn’t the thread for it, and you’re pulling trans people down in a trans space, to defend a position no one was making. This isn’t that thread. This is a thread for support. So I’ve removed those “gotcha” replies.

If your reply is “actually, there are times when trans people don’t deserve equal rights or to have their identity respected”, then your comment has been removed, and you’ve been permanently banned from all blahaj spaces.

I spent my life thinking I should have been a girl/woman. One day I realised I was.

Of course, it was a bit more of a journey than that makes it sound, but that’s the gist of it

Rallyman GT. I like the PvP element of Rallyman more than Heat or Formula D.

I’d argue that a company is more like someone not caring if it runs anyone over or not than someone who accidentally ran someone over. Wilful disregard rather than carelessness. But international harm is still worse than either

That instance is closing down in July, so many communities are likely moving (or the members are)

I dropped literally everything in your list for the reasons you outlined (except WoW, which I dropped before I knew anything about Blizzard).

But Rowling is worse than them.

Corporations are amoral, and entirely self serving. They will fuck over anyone if it earns the corporation a profit.

Rowling is not amoral. Rowling is driven by hate, and her goal is not self interest, and her harm is not indiscriminate. Her harm is targeted and deliberate, and she explicitly uses her visibility to normalise and encourage harm to the people she is targeting.

And deliberate targeted hate that tries to create more hate is worse than amoral self interest.

I’m in this picture, and I’m ok with that :P

Formula D

Rallyman GT. I enjoy it much much more than Formula D. Formula D didn’t have enough crunch for me

Bingo!

I couldn’t find a way of distinguishing it from other racing games without giving it away, but personally, I love Rallyman GT but don’t so much love other racing games, because the positioning and how it impacts you and other players is much more important in Rallyman

Cars jockeying for position as they run laps, hoping they don’t crash

Fuck your sheep, wood, grain and roads, I hate this island and want to leave

@[email protected] did that for me with a bunch of my photos. Not something I’d ever have done otherwise

Two party politics