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I'll be shutting down lemmy.click, I don't know exactly when. The database continues to grow, and I'm not going to upgrade the VPS any further. I'll leave it running until the disk fills, which I expect to be in the next few weeks:

I suggest everyone interested in continuing to use Lemmy find an alternate instance to call home. There are many more to choose from since lemmy.click was created.

I apologise for the inconvenience, lemmy.click was within the first 100 Lemmy instances. At the time I spun it up, growth was much slower.

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[–] rabbit_wren@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for hosting!

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

Sad to hear, but thanks for the transparency! And for hosting this far.

For everyone else who's considering to move to another instance: I found these related GitHub issues:

There is also a "Subscribed communities copyer", though it did not work for me: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53184

[–] Admin@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like memory exhaustion may be what kills the site. The lemmy database is using more and more RAM, will see how long it works for...

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