Sorry about the brief outage some of you might have experienced.

We've upgraded to Mastodon 4.4.0 this morning and it appears that one of our themes didn't play well and broke all of the assets (caching kept things working for a while, but eventually refreshed and caused things to stop working).

An update of the theme and recompiling the assets got things fixed though so we're all stable now. 🤓

#MindlySocial

Just a quick announcement for #Mindly.Social users regarding Threads and Meta's change in moderation policies:

As of 01/20/2025, Mindly.Social has limited Threads which will hide content from their service in public feeds while letting our users still follow and interact with people on that platform. This seems like the best compromise since we have users following over 600 accounts on Threads and a full defederation would prevent them from interacting with those users entirely. Our users have the ability to completely block them if they'd like to for their individual account and if we start getting any reports or start seeing any heinous content we may completely suspend the instance (as we would any other instance).

Apologies for the outage some of you may have been experience. We had a caching issue which caused the website to appear offline in browsers who didn't have the site cached before which ended up being a permission issue.

This has been resolved now and #MindlySocial should work on all browsers (mobile and desktop) at this time.

Hey #MindlySocial, I've made some backend changes to the infrastructure to remove some complexity so if you find anything not working or slower than normal please let @KuJoe know.

Thanks!

Sorry for not posting a lot of updates on this account lately.

Just wanted to share with everybody that we've increased the character limit from 500 to 1500 after many requests.

Keep in mind that some apps and services might still have a 500 character limit, but the web client now supports up to 1500 per post.

If you have any questions or comments about this change feel free to ping @KuJoe directly to discuss this.

#MindlySocial

#MindlySocial has been upgraded to Mastodon 4.3.0

Everything appears to be working properly but please report any issues you might experience. Thanks!

Additionally it appears that uploading large image files no longer fails. If you continue having problems uploading large images please let me know.

Made some performance tweaks this morning that I wasn't aware of so hopefully #MindlySocial is running better.

I'm still working to figure out the issue with uploading large files, which will be resolved in a future update but there's no ETA on that so looking into workarounds.

I know #MindlySocial has been unstable most of the day on and off but this should be almost done now.

Right now everything for me to fix is fixed and the last things are some basic maintenance tasks that should not interfere with anything too drastic.

If your home feed is broken/outdated, this will be fixed by tomorrow (ETA 12 hours).

Searches may be incomplete, this should be fixed eventually (ETA is blank, 164300764 total indexes to build at a speed of ~400/s).

Apologies again for today! 🥺

Sorry for the #MindlySocial downtime this morning.

Last night our database server had some issues so the database was migrated to a new server which took roughly 7 hours to perform.

We'll be looking into a solution that will hopefully avoid lengthy outages in the future when it comes to the database.

At this time everything should be good to go, timelines might take a while to update as we wait for other servers to resend data from during the outage.