[–] 1 point 3 months ago

There are definitely some weird people who want the clout of owning a "popular" instance, but mark my words they will flame out soon enough if popularity is the root of their desire. Instance management is a lot of tedious work and if you don't have a passion for facilitating conversation and connecting people you're not going to last. This isn't Reddit where a powermod can just sit there and do the bare minimum for free.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Instance admin here, this is backwards. Instance costs increase with the number of users because we don't sell ads. The only people we want signing up for accounts on our instance are people who are excited to be there, and intend to bring their singular wit and conversational A-game.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    I…don’t know that there’s much of any real point to this post. I don’t know a lot of people who watch Trek and wanted to share

    Literally the point of this entire instance :)

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    We're tweaking some settings on our new host to address the stability issues we've seen since transferring to the new hosting provider last week. StarTrek.website users might see above-average load times today and a few brief periods (1-2 minutes) of downtime.

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    We are transferring to a new server. We expect everything to be complete without 48hours but could possibly take longer if we run into any issues.

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