The domain name was originally registered with Sav.com, a particularly scummy registrar known for sniping and auctioning off dropped domains. As it turns out, they aren't any kinder to their own customers than anyone else, and without sufficient warning (seemingly in violation of ICANN policies), they sent our domain to be auctioned off when a scheduled payment didn't go through, kicking off a frenzy of anti-communists trying to buy it.

Specifically, a registrar operating in good faith will generally disable resolution of the domain after it has expired, to alert the owner/users that it is expired and in the grace period to renew, but Sav does not, preferring to take domain owners by surprise and let the domain fully expire, forcing them to compete on the open auction to get their domain back.

Somehow, we managed to transfer it out of Sav to a less scummy registrar during the auction, recovering the domain for free. However, the 2 weeks or so where we were operating off of chapo.chat as a backup domain ended up causing a lot of technical headaches and roadblocks to re-enabling federation, hence the delay.

It's fixed

(thank you for letting us know)

Hi, thank you for reporting this issue! sorry it's taken a bit to work its way to the relevant people. It should be working now, assuming you are not currently rate limited and you don't require multiple retries to get the 2fa code right.

New pronouns require a small amount of dev time to add, but it's pretty easy normally. My bigger concern would be the ongoing rebase of our customizations onto lemmy 0.19.6. I've asked in the dev chat!

surprise! we browse the trans mega!

sie/hir has been added, give them a shot!

As others have mentioned, that was implemented in a hurry due to tightening up security and safety around embedded images. I've brought it up to the devs to hopefully rectify, as if an instance is trustworthy enough to federate with (aka, not actively malicious) then it is probably safe to show their embeds (behind a blur).

At the latest, this restriction will go away when lemmy upgrades to pictrs 0.5 which will support proxying image requests, but unless there are objections from the rest of the team we will likely add all federated instances to the image allowlist before then.

Also dosent all modern operating systems have extracting files Just build in regardless of the format?

No.

yes! Movie night going on now at live.hexbear.net

You can get it on archive.org. I've done so once or twice