Okay, yes, we're back again. 
I'm making some progress learning my way around the system @meatballhat engineered up for us to ensure that we can deal with future mass exodi from other social media sites, but I'm still getting to the "how to access other boxes besides the maintenance portal" part of the quest. ๐ ๐ป
The immediate problem has been cleared up, however, and we'll continue to look at what needs to be done to prevent this from happening every couple of days...
Got some new gamering emojis, engineered up by the indefatigable @rnd -- share and enjoy!*
(movement), 
(clicking the sticks)
(start equivalent), 
(select equivalent)
*as they say in the marketing division here at Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (part of the #TootCatโข family of shell-companies and intellectual property holdings)
Friends, I feel like maybe #TootCat should (nay, is meowally compelled to) toss a chunk into this:
.meow โ Next Round gTLD Application
It sounds excellent. Any reason not to? (...aside from them using #Kickstarter... though at the moment, I can't even remember why Kickstarter has a red flag in my brain.)
(h/t to @FrozenTrout for drawing this to my attention, and to @Harena for drawing to my attention the fact that @FrozenTrout had drawn it to my attention ^.^)
Now that quote posts are a thing on Mastodon, we need an insufferably cutesy nickname for them that everyone hates but still gets used anyway. To that end I nominate โQuootsโ, a portmanteau of โquoteโ and โtootโ. I believe itโs the worst possible option, solidly cementing Mastodon in particular and the Fediverse in general as having the worst slang on the internet. Please quoot to spread the word.
This 1972 SF novel is set in a future in which #TootCat users are among the few survivors of a global calamity created by the "Demons" -- descendants of today's Republicans.
(I first read this as a tiny sometime in the mid-70s, borrowed from the Durham County Library downtown (when it was in this building iirc), only acquiring a copy for myself relatively recently -- which is to say sometime after 1985 or so. [straightface])
Anyway, I'm reading it to @Harena as a bedtime story.
Sorry for the interruption there, fellow #TootCat residents. We keep having this problem with upstream changes where the database migrations want to lock up high-traffic tables. I'm sure we can switch to a more sophisticated system to mitigate this in the future, but offhand I'm not sure how much work that'd take. Databass migrations are hard.
/cc @news
Belated apologies for the ~1h unavailability earlier today, fellow #TootCat residents.
We have two web servers for redundancy. Both web servers lost network within 20s of each other seemingly due to a DHCP reconfiguration that wiped the routes we needed to talk to the databass, cache, search, ssh, all of it.
After running a remote reboot, both servers came back up healthy.
Alert emails were firing the whole time, so that's a tiny win, but I was still asleep for most of it, and then taking care of small humans, so credit and thanks to @Raeyn for the ping via other channels ๐ ๐
cc @news
Woozle Hypertwin
Dan Buch ๐ต๐ธ
we had an unscheduled "read only" period there due to a failed database backup eating up all the disk space on the database node 
