We're shutting down :D

For about a week while we migrate the server, and the mods get a nice break out of it.

We’re also looking for assistants.

If you need your pony fix in that period, I’m sure there’s like a half dozen other boorus right?

Anyway, nothing’s wrong just moving some servers and it might take UPS a week or a bit more to physically get me the server in hand. Server’s been having issues lately and I’ve been silently routing code and VM’s away from hardware that’s failing onboard as if it were a Voyager probe.

Edit: We’ll be going offline when I physically unplug it. Which is only after I’ve taken a full backup. Which could take a while. This is well in advance, and a long time coming.

Well it’s been a nice ride everypony… >.<

Thanks for let us know.

Congratulations on Assistant!

About what day is this going to be?

Hopefully the site will come back. But either way, I have downloaded all my faves.

@ZizzyDizzyMC
Meaning?

Did Zizzy not make it clear they ARE coming back?

Geeze, don’t scare us like that…

Dilarus wins. For maybe how long? Months?

By Celestia!!!… giving me heart attack…

@TrukkinDuck
Is Dilarus even relevant anymore?

@Zaknel
He hasn’t been involved with MLP since early 2021 and has deleted ALL of his pony tweets, so no.

This was written on April 1st then I got pretty sick and cons and broke my ankle and yeah, it’s not been a great time but work must go on. Yeah about a week downtime, mods could use a break and honestly you guys will like the performance improvements when it’s done, though I think latency will increase at the new DC location when I slot the new system in place.

Thankfully this isn’t e-sports and latency is moot on the site as long as it’s responsive.

This won’t happen till I complete the backup of the system, which is honestly going slower than I want it to. I already have a backup, but I wanted a fresh one at a new location as I prefer the security of multiple backups.

If you want Site Assistant when we come up again send a dm to one of the admins fr fr, get that interview. Use that Master Rizz that Fleur has.

@ZizzyDizzyMC
Do you have a date in mind for when you’ll start the move?

I might be able to help, depending on what you need me to do. I seem to spend a lot of time here.

@BenPictures1
Is he missed?

@ZizzyDizzyMC
This site has always been walking with a limp when it comes to staff hasn’t it? (Not that I blame them).

I hope it goes well and wish y’all luck with the backup!

You scared me

Certainly. Especially now since two of the most active mods resigned last year and never got replaced.

@Twiface
If I had to hazard a guess, based on experience from other organizations. Work delegation is an issue. One or two very active mods cover for the others based on real IRL stuff, and then they themselves have stuff come up/leave for whatever reason and no one wants to be in the position of that one mod/assistant or really can fill in fully in s similar way even when they try. High burnout/turnover. I don’t consider it to be something that anyone is at fault in this case as I fully can believe most or all of the staff having IRL issues that prevent them from working on stuff also speaking from experience from places that I run/help administer No comment on the drama

@TheBridge
It is someone’s fault. It’s the fault of the Derpi trolls who raided this site and took advantage of rules loopholes to manipulate enough people here to dogpile the mods until they quit.

Who would volunteer after that knowing your head is always inches from the chopping block?

I had assumed this was just a Pareto distribution.

@UrbanMysticDee
Derpi trolls? What are you talking about?

@Twiface
Don’t you remember last year when a ton of people showed up out of nowhere, posted ragebait of unknown characters, and whipped most of the site users into a frenzy against Acres and 2k, and then they all the people who started the trouble magically disappeared never to be heard from again. Whole thing stinks of a raid to me.