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Here's a few things that are happening that I feel should be addressed:
-196 is reopening in reddit
-our community is causing excessive load on the blahaj.zone servers
-i finally figured out how to add newlines in Lemmy markdown

Two of these things are more important than the third but I figured they should all be addressed.
First things first, the subreddit. Even though the og subreddit is reopening now, I do not plan to close the community. At this point 196 on Lemmy and 196 on Reddit are both separate yet similar communities and this lemmy community has a sizable enough user base and is active enough I feel closing it would be stupid.

Speaking of a sizable user base, the blahaj.zone servers are under excessive load which has been causing the admins to incur fees upwards of $3,000 a month. This is in no small part due to 196 being the fourth largest community on Lemmy.
I'm not sure what the future solution of this will be. It seems like they're going to switch to a cheaper service provider which will also cause the entire website to be slower, at a lower cost.
For this reason, I think that a future migration to a different Lemmy server may be in order. I will be reaching out to major admins of other communities as well as our own ada to see if the pre-existing community can be transferred, or if we'll have to start from scratch if we choose to move. This is very much a developing situation, and I will keep you all posted.

Finally, as you can see. I finally figured out how to add newlines to plaintext meaning that all of my future postings will be much more professional looking. Check out our new and improved rules and regulations pinned post to see just how much of a difference it makes.

You guys are the community, so I'd like to see what you think. Please discuss in the comments section of this post, and I will try to base my actions off of whatever you all conclude on.

Also please point out any typos I may have made I voice typed this on my phone

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[–] alexiascylding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

going to a different server seems like a smart idea. we left reddit for a reason so seems counterintuitive to go back there. But yeah ive noticed the servers being all haywire and if theres a way to alleviate that cost and stress on the admins and go somewhere thats better equipped to handle the load then thats all fine and dandy

[–] Vlaxtocia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The admins have said they have a plan to fix it, and that we're welcome to stay

[–] ezri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The servers are having issues BECAUSE THEYRE WORKING ON THEM lol

Once the maintenance is done they'll be back to normal. ATM it's costing the admins $3000 a month to run the instance, so they're changing some stuff to be more cost efficient

yeah i realize that, seems like things are being fixed, browsing is much smoother now