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Does anyone have any information on why LemmyNSFW is down? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Alpha71@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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And any Idea on when or if it will be back online?

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[–] lemmyposter212@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lemmynsfw admin here, partially my fault but mostly not.

The other admin owned the server and the domain, suddenly he stopped responding, I started getting concerned and shit you not before all this happened I was planning on making a backup the weekend AFTER the site went down. But of course that never happened. That's the part that's my fault, I should have been backing things up ages ago.

The server is down, and I had access to the server, but not the platform it's hosted on. One day the server just... turned off. Other admin isn't responding and I have no way to get the data from the site.

I have access to, but don't own the domain. So the plan now is to look into other hosting options, like the fedihost beta program, and spin up a Lemmy and/or piefed instance and redirect from the old domain to a new one I own. But yeah unfortunately it looks like the site as it was is dead :(

[–] chris_naked_dancer@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Oh man =(

Thanks for the explanation, though, and sorry you have to deal with that!

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 160 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring Back the Porn!" "

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's basically what Tumblr is now

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How far the mighty have tumbled.

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's a Coxism for every situation.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with a bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine.

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 87 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So this thread has shown a weird number of fucking Puritans on Lemmy but no answers to the question.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

People rushing to log into their alts to declare anyone who participates in their secretly favorite communities is a degenerate so that whoever they think monitors their primary account might discover they are A Very Good Person:

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

As far as I can tell, one of the main selling points of lemmy is actually the ability to filter out all NSFW communities, which is better than reddit where they conflate "nsfw for porn" with "nsfw for a swear word or scary topic in this text post."

If people want to express a dislike of porn or say "eh it's bad for you so stop browsing there" then I don't mind. Could just block them if it gets really excessive.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

It's more like a few people loudly announce it and then get pelted with downvotes

[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

An admin in their matrix room explains they lack access to revive it. It'd been intermittently going down for a while.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Intermittently going down seems appropriate for a NSFW instance.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 59 points 5 days ago (2 children)

From speaking with other instance admins it seems the head admin is not currently able to be contacted...

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bus factor strikes again.

[–] mech@feddit.org 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

feddit.de happening strikes again.

feddit.de went down when the server's disk ran full which corrupted the database, and by the time the admin (who was on a sabbatical) reacted, all backups had already been overwritten with the corrupted data.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

From speaking with other instance admins it seems the head admin is not currently able to be contacted...

uh oh

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[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Is that why i saw a remarcable lack of boobs in the feed? Boobies!

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago

Admin with server access went AWOL a bit ago, so they can't revive it

[–] mech@feddit.org 38 points 5 days ago

Cloudflare responds with error 521 to connection attempts.
Which means the server is refusing Cloudflare connection attempts.
And it's been like that for a while.
So it's shut off, broken, or not connected.

tl/dr: Server no worky

If you want to know more, the only one who can tell you is the instance admin.

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mods are out for a quick goon, id assume

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’ll be okay.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

It happens to everyone eventually

[–] mudkip 13 points 4 days ago

Same here - haven't been able to have a proper goon in over 4 days, and that's the only place where I source my material so...

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