Hello again all!

As our communities continue to grow and spread through the fediverse I thought it might be a good idea to get in the habit of providing regular updates about the state of our instance and the communities within. I’ll try to remember to post updates every Sunday but if I forget or nothing of interest happens we may skip weeks here and there. Enough rambling, ON TO THE NEWS!

Uptime

The rollercoaster of service uptime was a little smoother this week but we are continuing to work through issues with our host. To begin with we were chasing irregular hardware demands that were causing us huge slowdowns and timeouts, now our host is neck deep in chasing a bug on their side. Things are set to come back automatically after crashing and the reboot usually only takes a few minutes, but the annoyance is very real and very understandable. If you have trouble accessing communities or images on our instance please give it a couple minutes and retry. We are hoping to have the answer on Monday.

Communities

This week a couple of our communities were fortunate to make it to [email protected] for some extra exposure. The bot has been on an acid trip for a week or so and doesn’t remember who it is anymore, but we’ll take it.

[email protected] is nearing 100 people and seeing a ton more engagement compared just a few short weeks ago. It’s great to see people getting in the spirit of the community! I know there’s more of you out there with weed humor to share, don’t be shy!

[email protected] hit 100 members and kept on rolling! We’ve got more and more people posting the music they love every day and enjoying the music others have shared. Thanks for keeping things interesting and so varied! Because of you the garden is groovier than ever!

[email protected] is doing the bare minimum to be considered a community, as is tradition. In its current state it’s mostly a shitposting echo chamber for a couple of us but others are always welcome to join in!

Misc.

Finally, a reminder that registration is back open on WG if you’re looking for a chill place to call home on the fediverse. There is a short application and registration requires approval to prevent bots and scammers from sneaking in undetected but applications are usually approved in less than 24 hours.

Thanks for stopping by everybody!