Today marks the one year anniversary of our humble little instance. It's been an eventful year but, despite fate's best efforts, we're still here. So go us! (or boo us if you think we suck)
Ah, so he may be back but single Admin instances are a bad idea - I wouldn't have done it without being part of a team, if nothing else, just so no one person is doing too much work. One of our key principles in taking over was to ensure it was set up to continue just fine if one of us got kidnapped by aliens (again).
Well feddit.uk is celebrating it's first birthday, which wasn't looking like a certainty for a while. We were pretty much at the point of no-return when the original Admin gave us access to everything so we could move it off to a new server. Since then we secured the financial future of the Instance and everything is bobbing along just fine.
Oh, that's cool. So you're running it based on a cooperative or a nonprofit organization now?
Same as we intend for feddit.de , just that our admin isn't reachable, and therefore we can't transfer data. We'd have to start anew. Also, we don't know yet which new hostname to choose.
It's only the frontend that's down, the backend is still running so users can still access it through third-party apps. It's why e.g. !europe@feddit.de gets new posts.