Thanks for the hard work keeping things running!
I'm glad to have startrek.website as my home on lemmy.
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"As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The input is eventually anticipated and even ‘missed’ when absent."
Thanks for doing what you do you beautiful bastards!
Fully functional, but still just the one technique.
I think Daystrom might take offense to being considered the "same technique" as /c/Risa.
LOL I just scrolled past this on Risa and was like "Oh damn I just made a similar joke!"
My shitposts have to be inspired by something :)
Seeing some of the wonky slowness just getting to communities for the first time. Really appreciate the heads-up/acknowledgment.
In the silver lining category, it’s been nice to see a few of the regulars here get set up on the fediverse sister platform Mastodon, especially on tenforward.social. There’re nice Trek folks there. Guinan is a gracious host and assiduous in her care to protect the instance from everything many of us we never wish to see or read.
Which brings me to the last point. Over at the ‘alternatives’ subreddit, there was a fair bit of discussion over the long weekend about illegal content and how instances can protect themselves from it federating to them. I hope that this migration hasn’t turned up too much stuff that the mods and sysadmins should never have to look at, and hope that the new home will help support better tools to filter that out.
Thank you all for all of your hard work. I missed StarTrek.website something fierce. I could ponder the ramification of how integral StarTrek.website quickly became in my life. Self-reflection and growth. Nah. I just kept reloading your feed to check for when the site was up again. LLAP.
Watching Star Trek counts as self reflection and growth, right? 
...right?
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Quick question, are signups blocked for now? I just tried to make a new account and it gave me a rate_limit_error. It's cool if they are, I was just wondering.
Thank you for letting me know, it should be fixed now. Let me know if you encounter any other errors!
YOU ROCK, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Our new host is designed for Lemmy in particular
Are you on Space Host now?
It looks like ever since this maintenance, no kbin instances can get images from startrek.website:
https://kbin.run/d/startrek.website
https://kbin.social/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://kbin.cafe/d/startrek.website?p=3
https://fedia.io/d/startrek.website/newest?p=4
(the links atm go to ~3 days ago when maintenance happened but ofc will start to drift as more posts are made)
You can see the thumbnails disappear exactly at the mark of the maintenance and ever since then they're gone. If you see thumbnails after that, they're usually wrong ones that are being loaded from different posts (there's a separate issue in for that now). I was wondering if you were aware of any issues or changes that happened because of this maintenance that would prevent kbin instances from fetching thumbnails? I've raised this in the kbin matrix chat as well
There's a known issue with any .website TLD, try adding this exception to your adblocker:
@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemmy.world
EDIT: It wasn't this- the problem has been fixed
This isn't really a me thing, this is kbin servers themselves. They all fetch the image from the posts and cache it to make thumbnails on their server which they host themselves. Ever since maintenance, the kbin instances appear to have trouble fetching the images to cache them. I'll try to gather more data from instance admins, perhaps something changed with the request/response headers or something else that is causing them to get blocked.
Just to follow up on this, contributors to kbin investigated and found that startrek.website appears to block user agents that contain "curl" in it now.
Example:
curl -v --user-agent "curl" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpeg
times out while:
curl -v --user-agent "anything-else" https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/3ff1b940-75da-4e6b-8948-834ebd4b454c.jpeg
works. kbin apparently sends User-Agent: Symfony HttpClient (Curl) in its requests for images, which is different than how it handles other fetch requests. they've made a PR to change kbin to send the user agent it uses elsewhere in those image requests https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/1098 once that is approved / merged they should start working again as instances update. It'd be nice if, assuming this is all accurate, the block on curl could be removed so people don't have to wait for the PR / instances to update but I understand if that is difficult
Thanks for looking into this more! A fix is in the works.