Hello World,

we will be performing an update to PieFed 1.6.18 today.

We are planning maintenance within the time frame from 19:30-19:45 UTC on 10th of April. The service is expected to go down for a few minutes during this update.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2026-04-10T19%3A30%3A00.000Z

Highlights:

• this should finally improve the post listing API performance significantly for most queries
• community theme configuration

You can find the full list of changes here:

• 1.6.15 release notes
• 1.6.16 release notes
• 1.6.17 release notes
• 1.6.18 release notes

The newly added NNTP/Usenet interface is not currently available for PieFed.World and we don't have any plans to enable it for the time being.

Update 19:33 UTC: update complete