EDIT: All done! All hear this: We're making some back end adjustments today to address the stability issues we've seen since transferring to the new hosting provider. - Star Trek Website

We’re tweaking some settings on our new host to address the stability issues we’ve seen since transferring to the new hosting provider last week. StarTrek.website users might see above-average load times today and a few brief periods (1-2 minutes) of downtime. This is completed. Please let us know if you experience any issues!

UPDATE: We're back! Thank you everyone for your patience. StarTrek.website will be down for maintenance within the next few hours of this post going live. - Star Trek Website

We are transferring to a new server. We expect everything to be complete without 48hours but could possibly take longer if we run into any issues. Check our Mastodon account for updates: https://tenforward.social/@TrekSite [https://tenforward.social/@TrekSite] And if you would like to help with our increased hosting costs please consider subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/treksite [https://www.patreon.com/treksite] We will hopefully be seeing everyone on the other side very soon, if you have any inappropriate comments you’ve always wanted to make, now is the time to risk making them because they might not get caught in the backup! 🖖 EDIT: If you use vger.startrek.website or old.startrek.website those will likely take more time to get up and running again. Also the Wiki is sadly going away indefinitely.

Update: this is completed. All hear this, all hear this: StarTrek.website users will have issues with images for a few days while we migrate pict-rs to S3 storage. - Star Trek Website

Apologies for the inconvenience! Drunk [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/65235299-8fdb-451c-a1aa-f72b78152376.png]

What to expect with an account on StarTrek.website - Star Trek Website

We’ve seen an increase in sign-ups on our instance lately, so the admin team felt it might be helpful to know what to expect from StarTrek.website as your home base in the Fediverse. To give an idea of how we view this instance, the original URL we were considering was “startek.club”. Our goal was never to be a “fan site” explicitly, but to feel like a social club for Trekkies and entry point to the “Threadiverse”. ---- ⭐What you can expect form us: Active, aggressive moderation from our administrators and mods. The admin team has decades of experience moderating on Reddit and we all have very low tolerance for inauthentic or aggressive behavior. If you feel that way too, you’ll probably like it here. But if you’re seeking raw, unfiltered Fediverse access, this isn’t the instance for you. The admin team actively defederates other instances, removes federated communities, and bans federated users for behavior that does not align with our core principles [https://wiki.startrek.website/books/startrekwebsite/page/mission-statement-principles-terms-of-service], even if those users/communities/instances have not interacted with our hosted communities in any way. Everything you see on startek.website is ultimately hosted by us, even if the content originated on another instance. That means we have to consider what we are willing to host and what kind of experience we want to offer. In addition to the obvious stuff (spam, hate speech) here are some examples of types of non-obvious content/behavior we will moderate: - Political propaganda - “Snark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_subreddits]” - Drama/call-out communities - Sealioning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning] - Reply guys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_guy] Unlike our local communities, we take a more laissez-faire approach when it comes to federated communities/users. This means we are not actively patrolling or holding federated content to the same standard as our own. We heavily rely on user reports and our own experience as users when it comes to taking action. ⭐What we expect from our users: Our users are expected to be on their best behavior when interacting with federated communities. Everyone with an account here is expected to respect other instance admin/mods time, effort, and mental health. This means adhering to our instance principles and terms of service in all communities accessed via startrek.website, even if the behavior is within the rules of the other community. Keep in mind, whatever you say on the fediverse gets said here first, and our rules apply. Our users are expected to actively participate in maintaining a positive culture. As a user, you don’t need to see someone blatantly spamming or harassing for us to consider taking action. If you see someone simply behaving in a way you don’t like, report them and we will consider. We are a community unto ourselves, we are not beholden to advertisers or outside influence. We get to determine what kind of experience we want.  — This post has a mirror [https://wiki.startrek.website/books/startrekwebsite/page/what-to-expect-with-an-account-on-startrekwebsite] saved on our wiki. If you are curious about how we might approach something more specific please feel to ask in a comment!

StarTrek.website has been updated to Lemmy 0.19.10 - Star Trek Website

Please let the admin team know if you notice any weirdness. See changes here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA [https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-03-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.10_and_Developer_AMA] - Fix Youtube thumbnails by increasing the metadata fetch limit to 1 MB #5266 - Also remove private messages when banning user with “remove content” (goodbye Nicole) #5414 - Ignore accept-language header if no site languages are specified, to avoid that users have English disabled and can’t see most posts #5485 - Enable english for users on instances with all languages enabled, to resolve the above problem #5489 #5493 - Only list local banned users under /admin #5364 - Add crawl-delay to robots.txt #3009 Also one of the main Lemmy developers will be doing an AMA in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://lemmy.ml/c/announcements] on the 25th.

StarTrek.website has a new logo (and more)! - Star Trek Website

StarTrek.website have been using the [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://startrek.website/c/startrek] logo instance-wide since the beginning, and since we have been seeing above-average growth lately, the admin team figured it was time to zhuzh up our lil’ Webzone with it’s own identity: [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/18d660a9-690b-4a19-848d-060258966ab2.jpeg] …Get it? We also have (mostly) completed a project I’ve been working on since the beginning, exclusive StarTrek.website custom animated emojis! Introducing: I’ve-had-enough-of-your-nonsense Data: Annoyed [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/275444f3-bf32-4bc8-87a2-48f280bbe521.png] I-would-like-more-of-your-nonsense Riker: Smiling [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7533feb6-1512-496b-9a34-b53b84db3fee.png] Are-you-shitting-me Tuvok Are you shitting me [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/04e7ccdf-f8c9-467e-8ba5-e835ba09afbe.apng] …And much, much more! WTF [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/e705f7cd-6c3d-4990-8e3f-5165d7b0ea58.png] Hmm [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/4f24e50f-7d17-4bce-a2e1-391aaec93243.png] lol [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/d6a79bed-b541-4582-ae3a-b4777d58609d.png] OK [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7f4c1d60-9c3a-4b12-a695-28c7a0eff07f.png] Cheers [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/78186ce3-b3ba-414b-a023-56149e589776.png] Grin [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/e6c29561-1a25-4a6c-a997-0dd1703ba7a0.png] Drunk [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/65235299-8fdb-451c-a1aa-f72b78152376.png] Clapping [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/19051d5f-fa6b-4a25-a60c-a2df02e2f1ef.png] Wink [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3bc181a8-8c35-419e-b609-e8cdf04966a3.png] Facepalm [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/0295d645-b9b6-4323-84dc-900d216bafc4.png] Laugh [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/a7676b30-a6ad-4e18-86cc-8094ffac8d08.png] Yes [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/e1a91b9a-9bd1-4e4f-a021-cb38d96d2fa9.apng] Wink [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/748713c4-36d0-4472-b1e2-c64a60bd5240.apng] Grimace [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/0cedcf2f-5024-46db-806c-981bb8c86f44.png] No [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ca114e3b-bff3-40cb-b154-a5fb57da42a6.apng] Eye Roll [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/8259b48e-339f-474f-bedb-714b43ff3f48.apng] OMG [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/fdf22599-d717-4c17-b602-82064742e0e3.apng] Flirt [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/9493eebf-55bb-4dac-a790-6d3c9cbbc190.apng] Nodding [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/49010aab-1133-4546-82db-939a9232e57a.apng] Wink [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/5c7f7b9b-ab20-4043-b324-90ae7df73d79.apng] WTF [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/c27416f9-d890-451d-9376-8d0dc3b2bfad.apng] Sarcastic [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/c2208472-df82-43ee-94a5-5a865fbdc5cd.apng] IDK [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/8e5b2b06-c1b1-4776-a5d6-bcb5f4d963d8.apng] No [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7988fd3c-a84b-4243-9aaa-5c0420138a17.apng] Blow Kiss [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/da430016-088c-4322-95f7-20743f43ad22.apng] Eye Roll [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/cd688a08-994d-4b61-b2d9-76ea7e7e23ea.apng] Clapping [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ac109606-f2d6-42e3-a28a-5bb24274539a.apng] Ok then [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/bd6b1900-9791-4459-b04a-a9aa867d6836.apng] Big Simle [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/72432485-a09e-43e5-a89d-91fa8dd7916a.apng] WTF [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/1b6bff32-abe7-4dd4-a0b4-e9d7107abd27.apng] Smile [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/384d4737-2e89-481b-8148-b277a8a23925.apng] Scared [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/cf31dcfd-dddf-49f4-874b-99fd72e82811.apng] Happy Dance [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/542c5920-7316-4090-bf93-ae7a67278738.apng] Smirk [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/794d617e-c886-464a-a07f-cb802454e354.apng] To use these, look here while making a post or comment: [https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/92f35de1-f95a-4735-b217-61ff98b34d89.png] Demonstrate your Website™ pride around the Fediverse with these! Characters from other series will be added in the future! As always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us live! If you are interested in helping out with the bills, we have just one plan and it’s $4 [https://www.patreon.com/treksite].

StarTrek.website has updated to Lemmy 0.19.7 - Star Trek∶Website

We were previously on 19.5, so this is a double update. You can see the changes here [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases]. Most of the update is some back end stuff, we are also looking into some federation delay with instances that haven’t updated yet.

Guess it's time to crawl into the Jefferies tube and make some modifications. - Star Trek∶Website

Defederating from Hexbear.net - Star Trek Website

This instance has defederated from hexbear.net [http://hexbear.net] for violating our rules against propaganda as outlined in our Terms of Service [https://wiki.startrek.website/books/startrekwebsite/page/mission-statement-principles-terms-of-service]. If you are unfamiliar, federation means two servers sync and host each other’s content. Defederation stops us from syncing their content to our server.