TTRPG.network Instance Meta Discussion

We will target migrating to a new hosting service this weekend. The site will probably be taken down sometime on 12/12/2025 to perform final backups from our current host and uploading to the new host. The weekend will then be set aside for migration on to the new host.

I don't think it should take longer than sunday 12/14/2025, in fact i would hope it would be done before then, but we will see.

I don't have exact times it will be happening, just depends on how everything lines up.

Hey all, just an update, our object storage migration mentioned in the previous announcement is complete; We should be using the new backend for image storage now and image uploads should be re-enabled.

The next step in our migration will be migrating to a brand new host, which should be happening sometime in the next few weeks.

The actual migration will likely result in down time, but i will give heads up before we start.

Also let me know if you run into any problems or issues

Just an FYI, as part of our migration off of our current host, it's become apparent that we're going to need to migrate our image hosting to object storage.

The change should be rather seamless from the front-end perspective outside of the migration window, but during the migration window, our image hosting capabilities will be offline. I'm not sure how long it will take (the current image hosting data is fairly large) so it could be a bit of a prolonged outage.

Text posts, and commenting should all work, image hosting and thumbnails will be broken. You can still link to external image hosting such as imgur.com, but it won't generate a thumbnail.

I'll update here when it is complete, but as of right now, i would plan for a potential multi-day outage.

I've just been made aware of this, but as an fyi to the community, our hosting company is going out of business. There's time for us to migrate hosting services, the final date is February of 2026, and they're available for us to assist in migration of our instance, but I wanted to share with everyone, as we might see some down time after figuring out what's next.

hey all!

i just made a new comm and can't get my banner to look right.

does anyone know the sizing / ratio recommendations for the banner?

thanks!

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7819673

It has a strong ML community, including those that like (and are from) Vietnam and China.

Even the liberals or milquetoast left-wing people from other countries give better answers; they're not like the ones from Reddit, probably because non-English options are widely present.

And the answers are comprehensive. Now, are they always correct? No, not always. But keep in mind that neither are the answers from Reddit or Internet forums.

I find myself missing that place, but I was laughed at for using it a couple of times and so stopped after a while. I might re-use my old account again and maybe try to make another ML place.

Your thoughts?

Idk, I just prefer Quora sometimes; I'm always guaranteed an answer.

Just an FYI, pict-rs (the picture service used by lemmy) will be going down for an upgrade tomorrow morning. It should only last for about an hour or so, during which time image upload, image viewing, thumbnails, etc. will be unavailable. The rest of the services (lemmy, comments, discussion, etc.) will all be available during this time.

Yesterday we had a bit of an outage with image storage on our instance; Got some messages about it at one point, but that said, everything should be back up and running. Is anyone else running in to issues? I had one user mention that they had a problem this morning, but I wanted to see if anyone else was running in to problems.

Let me know! If there's issues, we can get to the bottom of it, and get things hammered out.

Welcome to Sci-Fi RPGs - !scifi@ttrpg.network

A community about Sci-Fi themed tabletop RPGs.

One game I’ve recently adopted is Traveller, but I haven’t found a lemmy community yet.

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth creating a community but I’m no expert and I don’t think I’d be able to contribute more than a couple of posts.

Sure, I’ll probably have several questions no doubt, but would there be anyone to answer them?

Anyone here would be interested?

Alternatively, is it worth creating a potential “ghost town” community?

Update: Alas, I ended up creating !scifi@ttrpg.network instead.

Just an fyi, we will be going down temporarily for a postrgres upgrade tomorrow morning around 9AM cst, this is in preparation for upgrading Lemmy to 19.5. downtime shouldn't be significantly long.

Edit: upgrade complete

Today marks one year since the TTRPG network was set up after the whole hubbub over at reddit. While we certainly haven't been the largest instance in town, we're still reasonably active, and overall i think things are going pretty good.

Not really much to say, just wanted to point out our fedi-versary. Thanks for participating and hope everyone is still enjoying themselves!

I decided to create !micro_maps@ttrpg.network. I even created a first post.

A place for all those doodles in the corner of a page in your notebook. :)

Just a small FYI update, the host that we used just informed us that our website is now certified green hosted by the green web foundation, meaning that our site is completely hosted by clean energy.

You should see the badge display in our sidebar about it starting today.

Just an FYI, ttrpg.network has updated to 19.2. There's apparently some potential issues with cached logins, and you must delete your cookies/cache, or log out and remove and readd your account to most apps. Let me know if you have any other problems.

It's been down for over a month now. If you navigate to https://pathfinder.social/ you can see a blank Lemmy instance, but if you try to go anywhere else on that domain it just hard fails.

On your own local instance you can still post to it, but because the host instance is gone it won't federate. So there's this post by @Jaarsh119@ttrpg.network which is on the ttrpg.network instance, but I can't see it from my own instance. Likewise, I created this post around the same time on my home instance, but you won't be able to find it from ttrpg.network.

Is anyone around who might know what's up with the admins of that instance, @SenseiRat@pathfinder.social, @doggoblingames@pathfinder.social, and @HunterHog@pathfinder.social, or have a way to contact them?

Gonna ping @doggoblingames@dice.camp and @hunterhog@lemmy.world, who seem like they might be the same people as two of those admins, in case they're monitoring those accounts.

Cross-posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/5719058

I've been working on a simple opt-in solution, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance.

🌎 lemmy-meter.info

You can find the details of the implementation in lemmy-meter github repo.

❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter?

You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter.

Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little.

• !lemmy_meter@lemmy.ml
• #lemmy-meter:matrix.org

Basically what I said. This is the latest episode in the main speedbump I keep hitting with lemmy.

I'm trying to follow broadly when new TTRPG instances crop up. (DIYRPG.org is the latest I know of, and the one I'm currently having trouble with.) When I navigate to the communities from my ttrpg.network account, I can't see any of the existing posts.

So is the problem on this end (ttrpg.network isn't asking for the content) or their end (diyrpg.org isn't sending the content)? And is there anything I can do about it?

If this can't work smoothly, I'd at least like to know how it works.

Are there any Squabbles people coming over here due to the exodus?

Anyone know if there is a way to view the list of communities (both subscribed and not) on ttrpg.network from one of the mobile apps (ie. mlem or memmy)? On the website I know I can just click "Communities" at the top, but I don't see anything similar on the mobile apps.

Just finished updating to 18.3 here. Supposedly there's a good amount of DB improvements so you should see some improved performance. Let me know if you have any issues.

It caused some significant downtime earlier as it was updating, so apologies if you noticed the site offline for about an hour or so.

I just removed the restriction on creating communities. Originally this restriction was put in place to that any reddit mods jumping ship could claim their communities, but now that it has slowed down, I removed the restriction.

New communities must still have TTRPG relevance, however.

Powered by mlmym.org, for anyone wondering.

Hi all!

Another post from me! This time i wanted to talk about the lemmyverse and more broadly the fediverse.

We have a previous post talking about some tips and tricks with lemmy over here.

However, it was recently brought to my attention that some users of ttrpg.network might be going out in to other TTRPG communities in other fediverse instances, and either harassing users or asking them to close down and consolidate to here!

I don't consider this ok. I would please ask that you respect the rules and etiquette of other communities and instances.

Multiple communities across the fediverse for the same topic is a feature, and not a bug!

There's many reasons this is good, however, chiefly among them - No one person or team can be all controlling on a subject. If you don't like what I, a mod here, a mod/admin on lemmy.world, etc. do, you can merely subscribe to a sister community on a different instance! You can also subscribe individually to all communities covering the same subject and create yourself a mega-feed of all the communities across the lemmiverse. Again, this is considered this a feature, not a bug.

So if you're going in to other communities around the fediverse, please be respectful, nice, and participate in good faith! Doing this will actually help this community grow as it reflects well upon ourselves here, and seeing your username being from this instance will drive extra traffic to us!