Hi all, I got in touch with the admin and he’s alive but snowed under. As you may know, there’s been a few update attempts that have failed, which is why we’re still on v0.17.4.
@admin@lemmyrs.org’s reply follows:
I am aware of the concerns rightfully raised by the community on lemmyrs, I’m at a loss to be honest since I cannot dedicate the time and resource to upgrade the instance to the latest version without a) significant down time b) potential loss/corruption of the existing database.
I’m not sure if I’ve made you admin but I’d appreciate if you could relay this information to the community on lemmyrs. My personal (and professional) life have been…chaotic to say the least which is why I haven’t been able to make any thoughtful update on lemmyrs.
I’m going to try again this coming weekend to upgrade lemmyrs over to whatever is the latest version of lemmy is (I’m not hopeful though since many of my attempts have ended in failure to do so).
The server is back up and running fwiw.
It’s good to get this update on things, thanks for doing so.
It would be ideal to get the instance upgraded and to have more than one admin but it sounds tricky to figure out the path toward that.