Apology from me. We’re moving some things around on the back end, and my non-thinking brain didn’t think to check another admin was online before handing over control of a system to them.

Hopefully, feddit.uk will be back up before the end of the day, assuming nothing horrid happens.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Are there any designated out-of-band channels to communicate in case the server goes down?

    • The Infinite Nematode@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      I was wondering exactly this - there’s no place to go and chat about where the instance has gone because when it goes down, so does our access everywhere.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        In the early days (well, when Tom went AWOL), we set up alternative channels on Matrix.
        We might get them posted a bit more prominently, as earlier I was only able to post a message to 50-odd people in the channel.

        We may also look into setting up a status page that is complete separate from the main site (different domain, hosting, everything).

        Ordinarily, there would be a post scheduling the maintenance with alternative channels, but obviously this time I screwed up.
        I’ll post in !backend@feddit.uk with some details about what went on later today.
        The main gist is: We planned something, then this morning I saw the shiny button we were waiting for.
        And instead of going “we’re ready to go, lets schedule things”, I pressed the button not expecting it to do things immediately :|