tom 1 year ago • 100%
Lol I forgot to deploy it, should now be fixed
tom 1 year ago • 100%
The website going down seems to be due to load (though CPU and RAM levels are fine so not sure what's going on), I've updated to 0.18.3 and will keep monitoring the site
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Yeh it is a single admin instance, I'm going to look to add a few more admins this week as we really should have more than one
Hey guys, Sorry about the absence, have been super busy with life, other projects and the nightmare of buying a flat lol. Instance should be updated to 0.18.3, as some of you have noticed the website has been periodically down the last few weeks (at most by half an hour at a time) will keep monitoring the uptime after this update but hopefully this partially fixes it
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Sorry I’ve been really busy the last few weeks you should be verified now lmk if you're not
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Sorry I've been really busy the last few weeks they should be verified now
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Hey, appreciate the reminder but the donation is on the sidebar on the instance and the link in the description doesn’t work (its url is to the post itself). We’ve been getting a steady of donations for the server so gonna remove this for now (I agree with other posters, that link could be anything)
Ask UKtom 1 year ago • 100%
I'm using coffee link at the moment, it's really good for the price nothing to special in terms of quality though. I usually order two 500g bags for around 22 quid which lasts a good month
I ordered an anaerobic coffee there the other day though and it was not great, not a fan of that type of coffee. Don't know if it was just that particular bag but the smell of the anaerobic coffee is not the one (the taste was actually fine)
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Yeh fixed and fixed the issue where updating broke it so that shouldn't happen anymore
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Addressed it here https://feddit.uk/post/455317
So last night a XSS scripting attack was found on all Lemmy instances. See the lemmy world update here https://feddit.uk/post/453040 What this means is that hackers could inject their own "script" when any user viewed a comment/post that the hackers made. The hackers would then grab your JWT token with the script so they could impersonate that user. (And perform any actions on behalf of the user) Luckily, it looks like I haven't been compromised so the site config should all be the same ## What has been done about this I've removed any comments or posts which included the script see here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1895 I would have removed all custom emojis as well but there was none in our DB, this may potentially mean that this site was not affected. Just in case, I've also rotated the JWT tokens so all tokens are now invalid. This means you will have to logout and log back into the instance Shoutout to [@clara@feddit.uk](https://feddit.uk/u/clara) for messaging me about this and bringing it to my attention
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Haha yeh i did there was around 3k bots accounts which I found and purged hadn’t liked or subscribed to any communities and their email was a distinct pattern
Technology
1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Was always a lurker on Reddit, now I’m an instance admin lol so I sort of have to comment and post often.
It feels way more a community on Lemmy though so I’m much more active than I ever was on Reddit I love it!
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Yeh just fixed it, I need to find a better way of updating the wefwef site as atm, every update to the instance will break the wefwef site lol. Problem for another day
Big update this, this update comes with captcha being available which has now been re-enabled for sign up. This means signups are once again open (as captcha should filter out most bots). Quite a few UI changes in this one and quite a few performance updates as well (mainly around how the database works). If anyone is interested our CPU average is around 8-10% usage and the memory usage has dropped to around 5% usage so the instance is looking pretty stable.
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Not much to be honest, it helps take the load of wefwef’s own site and this instance should be quicker as well.
Also an advantage for me is that I added a feature in wefwef so I can approve or deny registration applications but the code hasn’t been approved in the main app yet so I wanted to deploy my own version with that in it!
Hey everyone, I've deployed a feddit.uk specific instance of wefwef at app.feddit.uk If you haven't heard of wefwef before, it's essentially a mobile UI which you can deploy as a PWA to your phone, the link for the actual app is here https://wefwef.app So that we don't rely on wefwef servers, I've deployed a local version which should be faster as it runs on the same server as feddit.uk so is essentially a second UI to the regular web app as I've limited to feddit.uk only at the moment. Thanks, Tom
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Hey I've just made a post about the verification emails but could you send me a PM with the email in question please?
Hey everyone, It seems a lot of people are having issues verifying their email when first signing up as they are not receiving the email. This is because around 20-30% or emails sent from admin@feddit.uk are being bounced due to being marked as spam. I'm working on fixing this at the moment, (the domain is on a domain blacklist on spamhaus.org) In the meantime, please send an email to admin@feddit.uk from the email that needs verifying and I will verify the email manually which should resolve the issue. Thanks, Tom
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[META] I spoke to the mod of this community
tom 1 year ago • 100%
I'm in the process of buying a flat at the moment and the solicitors are taking their time, I can't tell if that is just how it is or if it's their fault to be honest. The updates we get from them sounds like they are following up enquiries from the seller's solicitors but who knows. We were hoping to complete soon but looks like it might be another month or two before that happens.
I think for some solicitors, conveyancer is low priority as there isn't much money involved and there is no pressure to get it done quickly, which is why it can drag on.
wefweftom 1 year ago • 100%
Woo my first big contribution to the app! Looking forward to making more!
Feddit UK
It appears that Feddit.uk blocks me when I try to access it via VPN. Do we really want to do that?
tom 1 year ago • 100%
It’s working with my nord VPN I haven’t blocked anything around VPNs so not sure what’s going on here
Would you mind sharing a screenshot and possibly a console log of the issue if you can?
tom 1 year ago • 0%
Hmm it might be an issue with the communities then or the way they are stored in our database. I’ll have a look and some test accounts, subscribe to those communities and see if I get the issue as well
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Yeh I think that might be best creating a new account let us know if that has fixed it
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Lol I love this, until we get a banner which is more "maximalist" which encompasses all aspects of the UK, gonna use this one for the banner!
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Hey, that is very weird and one I can't reproduce myself unfortunately.
I think all I can do atm is wait for the full 0.18.1 release and hope that fixes it otherwise will need to dig into it further
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Blocked instances can be found here https://feddit.uk/instances
The one blocked atm is https://burggit.moe/
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Hmm you shouldn’t see that message unless I’m doing maintenance which I’m not, can you see the URL the app is trying to access?
tom 1 year ago • 100%
What was the email address? The email may have bounced
UKCasualtom 1 year ago • 100%
Hey yeh today has been wild there’s been a lot of signups and I’ve hit the rate limit for my email relay provider.
I’ve been sending out manual verification emails so will send one to you now
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Spent quite a bit of the morning working on my lemmy instance, had to send a bunch of verification emails manually lol
Definitely been an influx of new users over the last 24 hours
Casual UKtom 1 year ago • 100%
Try wefwef it’s a PWA but I’m using it atm and it’s pretty good, very similar to Apollo
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Okay thanks if they are still having issues PM me and I'll sort it out manually
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Sorry, can you send PM me your username and email and I'll send the email manually
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Sorry I've updated the instance so hopefully that should fix it
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Commented above but I've updated to v18.0 so hopefully that fixes it
tom 1 year ago • 100%
I was reluctant to upgrade to v18.0 because it didn't have captcha but I've decided to upgrade it anyway and close the registration to of the instance behind a question to avoid spam instead
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Haha yeh done!
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Does the sign up hang rather than the verification email?
If so they may have to choose a different username, the UI doesn’t return error messages on login/signup yet so the username may have already been taken
tom 1 year ago • 100%
No worries, there is a donation link in the post and that alone should be enough to cover the costs for now
tom 1 year ago • 100%
Okay I’ve given this some thought to this and I agree with most of the comments here that mention this is troubling.
Firstly I wanna preface with saying I’ve never moderated anything before so this is new to me so I’ve generally leaned to being more hands off. Saying that I’m gonna look to add extra site admins in the near future who may know more about moderating.
Back to the point, I think the comment @SaltMeadow@feddit.uk made was a great point, in that, I don’t think the community’s idea explicitly breaks the instance rules. But the posts and some of the posters are on the edge/ if not breaking the instance rules so I’m going to remove the community in question to stop it attracting more users who will break the instance rules
Also this instance is supposed to be UK centric, so I think it’s fair to leave communities that are more controversial to other instances who are better equipped to deal with them
With this I’m going to post some more community creation guidelines tomorrow which will give more explicit guidance on which communities are allowed on this instance. I’m leaning towards having political communities requiring approval before being created to avoid this in the future
tom 1 year ago • 0%
No worries made a comment in the other thread but I've enabled captcha and email verification
www.bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
Wonder what has caused the sudden rise in the last few months
www.bbc.co.uk
Shame would love to him in the Prem, but then it would for Liverpool or City. Reckon he'll do well at Madrid
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/1 > # What is Lemmy? > > Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on feddit.uk, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account! > > # What is Feddit.uk > > Feddit UK is a UK specific instance of Lemmy, ideal for people from the UK or are just interested in following the UK community. > > This instance is hosted by me Tom, an experienced software dev based in London. I decided to host Feddit UK as I saw many instances already made for other countries and none for the UK and saw the need for a UK community on the Fediverse. To help the upkeep cost of this instance, please consider donating by buying me a coffee! > > [](https://ko-fi.com/E1E0M4D1V) > > > # Why Feddit > > Feddit comes from the combination of the words Fediverse and Reddit. Lemmy is a new alternative to Reddit based on the Fediverse! > > # What are the rules here? > * No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia > * No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies > * No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users > * Do not share intentionally false or misleading information > * Do not spam or abuse network features. >
Hey guys, just to let you know I'm upgrading the server tonight to a dedicated server which should improve the speed of the site significantly. It shouldn't take too long and might resolve some issues we were having on the instance. At the moment, the server has been running on shared hosting which is cheap hosting where the server that runs the website is shared among many users. I upgraded it this morning but it didn't seem to help at all so I'm opting for a dedicated instance. Over the last few days we've seen a good number of users join the instance and I've had a good number of donations from some great people! My intentions are to run this server for as long as I can even if I'm putting some of my own money into it. I know some people may be worried about an instance like this being hosted by one person but I promise I'll keep it up and keep regular backups just in case I can't host it anymore or something happens to the server!
theathletic.com
www.bbc.co.uk
Hopefully that's the last we hear of Boris 👋
www.bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
# What is Lemmy? Lemmy is link aggregator software that exists in the fediverse, meaning it connects with other “ActivityPub” software like Mastodon and other Lemmy instances. Basically, you can follow and interact with communities here on feddit.uk, on any other Lemmy instance, or even from your Mastodon account! # What is Feddit.uk Feddit UK is a UK specific instance of Lemmy, ideal for people from the UK or are just interested in following the UK community. This instance is hosted by me Tom, an experienced software dev based in London. I decided to host Feddit UK as I saw many instances already made for other countries and none for the UK and saw the need for a UK community on the Fediverse. To help the upkeep cost of this instance, please consider donating by buying me a coffee! [](https://ko-fi.com/E1E0M4D1V) # Why Feddit Feddit comes from the combination of the words Fediverse and Reddit. Lemmy is a new alternative to Reddit based on the Fediverse! # What are the rules here? * No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia * No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies * No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users * Do not share intentionally false or misleading information * Do not spam or abuse network features.