Hello all!

I’ve got a few things to announce.

We’ve grown by over 200 users since May 30. That’s about 28 users/day, which is huge compared to what it’s been before that. I’m very happy to see the increased activity, and hope this place (and lemmy/the fediverse in general) will become the goto spot for social interactions and link sharing. I’m excited for what the future will bring! Also thanks to many of you for making me laugh in your registration applications.

As this server grows, I think it would be a good idea to have some admins (I’m thinking 2 to start), to help with approving new user registrations, and dealing with Reports. Ideally, I’d like to leave most reports up to the community moderators, but for things that go against the site-wide rules, I’d like to have a team of 3 so we can deal with these things as a group. I haven’t fully decided on how I will pick the admins, but I will make another post when I’m ready to do that.

I’ve thought about a new logo for lemmy.ca. Are there any graphic designers here that would like to create a new logo? I don’t really have anything in mind other than something to do with Canada, obviously.

Lastly, since some users have asked, I’ve setup two places where users can donate to support the server. The monthly costs to run the server is currently around $25 CAD/month, which includes weekly backups (which I may change to daily). Anyways, donations are completely optional, but greatly appreciated! They can be made here:

https://liberapay.com/lemmy.ca/
https://opencollective.com/lemmy-ca

I’ll add those links to the main sidebar as well.

If you have any feedback for anything above, let me know!

  • BorgzillaEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    It is a national animal of Canada. I would say that a beaver is very fitting :)

    • smorksOPMAEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      i agree, i like the idea of a beaver. or even a beaver tail or something along those lines. i could try and whip something up but i’m pretty terrible a design-related stuff, haha.

      • Otter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        A beaver would be great, I could give it a try! Beavers, Lemmings, Otters, I love them all lol

        I tried to make an account on Lemmy.ca but I wasn’t able to log in. Are you guys still dealing with server issues? I’ve been stuck on the log in page for a few days now. If I inspect in the console, it seems to be spamming ‘createPostLike’ and the such but that might not be relevant.

        • smorksOPMAEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          weird. i can see your account, it looks like everything is good with it. it could be that we are/were overloaded when you were trying to login?

          A beaver would be great, I could give it a try! Beavers, Lemmings, Otters, I love them all lol

          and feel free! it would be much appreciated!

          • Otter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Oh ok that is odd, I’m still getting the loading icon that spins forever

            My best guess is that you are/were overloaded since it’s happening across different browsers too. I guess I will just wait for those new performance upgrades then :)

            • smorksOPMAEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              i just tried logging on in an incognito window and had no problems. that’s really strange. have you tried resetting your password (assuming you have an e-mail setup?)

              • Otter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                Oh that was it! I just assumed it was loading forever, but resetting my password fixed it. Not sure what happened there, but I was able to log in now and post from the account