This instance is well into a second year of existence now, and while changes have happened its stable.

Thinking about longevity, i think Aussie Zone could benefit from a direction setting and issue defining annual meeting of sorts.

Issues like the large amount of dead communities and why they’re left, decisions that need to be made about inactive moderators, financing (if this hangs around for a long time this might become an issue for Lodion), broader direction setting, also might be a good way to look back on the years events and assess whats happened perhaps after some time has passed.

Its structure being analogous to a companys AGM, hence the name, the thread could be locked after two days or a week, etc, and amount of questions allowed per user limited.

In saying all this, i’m not forgetting that this is Lodion and Nath’s beast. But i think it could be useful to find out the broader instances thoughts or concerns, for instance if a user doesn’t feel an issue warrants its own thread, an AGT could be useful for that.

And, of course, the structure would have to be thoughtfully done. It can’t set up an us against them scenario in any configuration that could possibly detrimentally occur. Can’t also be an agonybaints session, the rules would have to foster only productive and earnest conversation.

I don’t know, I by no means have a fully fleshed out idea here. But what do people think of an AGT or something along that vein?

  • NathA
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    5 days ago

    I’ll pay the imgur thing. It happened during school holidays and we went away for the (WA) long weekend in there as well.

    I did have a shot at looking into it, but didn’t try very hard. I didn’t really prioritise it, because it only seemed to affect thumbnails and even then, it wasn’t consistent. I didn’t see it as that big of an issue.

    The lemmy.world lag drama was more nuanced. It’s not a time issue, rather the precedent that one would require. We would have needed to spin up a new server somewhere close to lemmy.world in Finland, batch their feed and send it home. All for an issue with one remote instance that the Lemmy devs said was about to be fixed.

    We didn’t want to eat into the finances for a temporary problem. Had we known in May that it would take until November to resolve, we may have made a different call. But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.

    • BakuEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for sharing your perspective. I do politely disagree with the statement it wasn’t that big of an issue, as from what I could see, it completely prevented every Imgur image post from loading, thumbnail or not. Perhaps you mean the pictrs troubles (which are still intermittently happening, but primarily affect thumbnails and although annoying aren’t dire)?

      It’s not a time issue

      But the point is that one wasn’t a time problem.

      Perhaps I’m mistaken, but Lodion specifically mentioned it was a time not financial problem when asked 3 months ago. I’m pretty sure there was a similar response when it was asked previously, as well

      And I believe it wouldn’t have required that much VPS power. A $5-10/mo low end VPS likely would’ve sufficed. If that was really a concern, I would’ve pitched in to get it operational without killing the kitty