hello bunnies, some news regarding udongein.
The instance *should not* be gone by 2025, some discussion and pondering has been made during past days.
To put it in a nutshell @drq is generously helping with the hosting infrastructure, and @yura is granted admin responsibility.

https://udongein.xyz/notice/AmpKtKRabeiYyWdGb2
(don’t know how to quote a post any more lol)

Hey hello you, it's been a while since I announced something, right? It must be something like close to a year. Do I have something to announce? Yeaaah absolutely, about the future of udongein.xyz

Not gonna maintain the secret for too long: udongein.xyz will never see 2025.

"Why?" you may ask, and this is a legitimate question, and it will be answered. As some of you might have noticed I have gone missed in action for almost all 2024, for a simple reason: I don't vibe with my account/followers/followees/federation any more. The few times I connected and looked at what I missed, it just felt like an unpleasant chore.

In addition to this unsynced vibe, a few other elements add up:

- Pleroma requires some maintenance, especially when it breaks (pg_repack is your best friend is you have timeout queries), not that much, but still some work (I assume that Akkoma is the same)
- Even if local users bunnies doesn't make (that much?) trouble, it is still a responsibility
- The machine hosting the instance is awfully hard to migrate, and consumes quite some energy

It is not something I constantly think about, but more like a background noise in my head that reminds me how broken the situation is, dragging my mood down.

Yes the instance runs quite smoothly, but people doesn't know it is a 8CPU, 16GB RAM host, and the pinnacle is the database, PostgreSQL takes a bit more than 174GB of disk space (this is mostly indexes). This ridiculous space makes it virtually impossible to move, not without lost data (pruning old objects) and/or an insane downtime (estimated about a week of computing to rebuild all indexes). Yes, I tried several approaches, but none was successful or satisfying.

So, what's the plan? As I have already said, this instance won't see 2025. Also the gitea will be gone at the same time. The simple reason is, I won't own the hardware any more, so I can't host anything on it once the transaction made. The server is something I bought with a friend (50-50) for a project and represents a valuable amount of money that I kinda need as I am broke side of finances. Friend wants to buy the other 50%, I need money.

Now, what's the future, is udongein.xyz gone forever? Maybe, maybe not. The domain is valid until december 2025. Three options come to my mind:

1. I let the domain expire, and whomever squat/buy it
2. I transfer the domain to someone I trust to not host an online casino website
3. A new instance is made on another subdomain

I am not a fan of the first solution, and I'm not sure if I can endorse the responsibility of hosting a semi-public service. So, the second solution is the most likely.

Now, what you should do is doing an export of your following list, migrate to another instance and observe. I will do an announcement when the date is known.

Loving all the udongein.xyz users, the current and past users. And remember: Praise NaiJi!

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announcement on a more stable location: https://www.udongein.xyz

it's soon christmas, which is a forever mood on fediverse (padoru padoru)

but WAIT! I have a present for udongein.xyz users AND the whole fediverse, because why being generous with a few when it costs nothing to make it broad? :nkoThink:

I made a quick project earlier this week, a service for users to request me emojis
because I'm a baka :cirno_baka: I often forget to add them and they become forgotten forever :yotsuba_why: (poor users)

so let me introduce you to Emojiquest, a basic form to request emoji.
it's 200 LoC, backend and HTML templates, KISS and just enough for the task :yotsuba_yay:

see how it looks on the two attached screenshots (I'm a great web designer, but hey it's responsive! And likely accessible too)

and of course it's open-source:
https://codeberg.org/mycelium/emojiquest
(that's also where I spent time to write the documentation, so do me a favour and read it :nkoKnife: )

regardless what's happening where you are and your life situation, I wish you a good end of year and may the best for 2024 happen to you :dangolove: