Hi all, sorry for a lack of updates but there's been a lot going on behind the scenes and events moved rather rapidly.
I recently posted that we were going to have to move to another instance because our only Admin was missing and problems looked to be piling up.
Fortunately, Tom dropped me a line the other day and he has updated the instance and made GreatAlbatross and myself Admins.
So the immediate crisis has been averted and we've fallen back to the original plan which was get more Admins in place and work to ensure there's no single point of failure, so any one of us could get hit by a bus (bagsy not me) and the instance will carry on.
Soooo bear with us while we thrash out the details of what else needs doing to ensure the continuity of the instance and while I figure out what all the new buttons do (hopefully not by mashing them all at once just to see what happens).
In the meantime there are likely problems that need fixing. I know, for example, that some are still having email verification problems and have been waiting a while, so I'll figure out how to resolve this and work through the pinned post here. If you have this problem then post there and we'll get it sorted.
If there are any other issues you want to flag up for attention then you can do so here or contact one of the new admins.
And, finally, thanks to everyone for their enthusiasm for this instance in the other thread and elsewhere, if the folks on here hadn't formed a great community that they felt was worth the time and effort to save we wouldn't be here now with the future looking more secure. Tom built the house but you all made it a home. So carry on...
edit 1: I'll keep tagging things on as I think of them. Firstly, we'll be keeping the Matrix space - it'll be our fallback if the server goes down and provides people with an encrypted (and private if needed) channel of communication. If you add your Matrix ID to your profile it adds a secure DMs button to your.profile, so Matrix and Lemmy are integrated to a degree.
Great news all around. Although, I do feel a tiny bit sad we'll never get to see what Quackhouse could have been.
Ah yes, a real Sliding Doors moment but, hopefully, we should be able to use a lot of the ideas and enthusiasm to improve this place. Which reminds me, we need a duck community now.
The ideas won't work. Feddit UK is an awful name and we won't really be able to expand this place easily with such a name, and if we do, reddit will get annoyed with us because we are basically stealing their name. I am really disappointed that you'd kill all of our plans for Quackhouse overnight without much consultation :/
You seem to be a absorbing a lot of down votes but you are completely correct - feddit.uk is an uninspiring identity. What does it mean? Federated Reddit UK?
If so that's blatantly imposing on Reddit's IP/ trademark.
The average user really doesn't care about federation so it seems pointless to include it as part of a brand.
feddit.uk seems to imply some relationship with feddit.de and similar domains. Not only is that open to confusion, but it could be a bit of a minefield if (when) one of them falls into controversy.
Yep. I made a full post on here proposing the name change. Please check it out if you have the time. But you've basically nailed it, plus added the relationship for feddit.de
Compared to Reddit we're a tiny blip, there's no way they'll ever care about our name and even if they do I doubt it constitutes trademark infringement
"we are" is present tense. We cannot guarantee nor should we plan around being tiny and insignificant
You're talking about what we currently are. This post is about the future.
I'm sorry but Quackhouse is a terrible name.
And "Federated Reddit UK" AKA "Feddit UK" isn't? Quackhouse was also chosen by community members in the matrix chat, it wasn't even my idea
No, it's fine.
The "community" is here, not a matrix chat.
Nothing prevents you setting up your own instance. In fact, I'd say you probably should. If you've invested so much into this name already, then you may as well.
With the greatest respect: what the fuck is a "matrix chat", and what does it have to do with this Lemmy instance?
I'm neither particularly attached to nor offended by the current instance name, but if we're going to choose a new one it should probably be done by users of the actual Lemmy instance itself...
People will buy up the domain that we decide upon if we do it publicly. It was decided upon by lemmy users of this instance. We just did it in a chatroom to stop people from domain sniping. The link was posted on here by Emperor. We had around 20 members of the community on there