Based on the first post(or second, the first were deleted), today is the day this instance went online! Not much of a speech person here, so thanks to anyone who still stick by, and thanks to @[email protected] for keep posting all this time!

In another news, update and migration will happen either this sunday and the next.

Or around 12am GMT+8. Downtime will be around 1 hour long.

It's been a while this server got an update, last time it's a few months back, where we updated to 0.18.4, so when is the new update gonna be?

Soon, but first, the issue

The server been under heavy load since 0.19 came out, presumably caused by federating each time the other instance updated, so monyet.cc will goes down intermittently from time to time for no apparent reason. Browsing through the github, it seems like there's also extremely heavy load issue with 0.19, and some instance experienced significant heavy load after update, so there might be chance that the server will have a lot more down time due to heavy load after updating.

Still, an update is needed, as the new version provides useful tools for user and admin, the benefit is currently outweigh the risk.

So with that in mind, i'll try schedule the update around next week, will announce when it happen.

What about the down time yesterday?

It's been know int

So if you haven't noticed yet, this instance is down for the past few hours, long story short, the database shutdown and everything crash with it. And it's now up. That's it, that's the story in short.

... I want to try the response time for this channel.

@[email protected] @[email protected] The bot is dead again.

Hi admin,

Is there any ETA on upgrading monyet.cc to lemmy v0.19.x ?

It's been a while we update the rule since the inception of this instance, and i think it's time we get a proper rule set for (hopefully) better handling of situation. Here's the 4 general rule to be enacted:

1)Be Nice

This one is self explanatory and intentionally open-ended. Just get along with each other and we'll be fine.

2)No Bigotry

This one is also self explanatory. Malaysia is a multiracial country and sometime we tend to rub shoulder with each other, sometime stuff getting heated up. Argument is fine, disagreement is fine, as long as it stay civil and no one get banned. Bigotry include but not exclusive to: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and so on.

3)No Porn

Do not post, share, or distribute any pornographic material. NSFW discussion(in words only) is allowed, and should be marked as NSFW.

4)No Ads & Spam

Do not spam this Instance with irrelevant shitpost or ads. **If your intention of creating an account or community is to flood t

Currently, I have to manually schedule the posts for communities based on mods' requests, and I understand that this isn't a good thing to sustain in the long run. Hence, I have made up my mind to create a UI for this feature instead so all community mods can schedule their own posts!

This is only the initial ideation, and the final result may differ. The second scheduler design has some UI components reordered, but most of the idea remains the same. I will try to add useful tooltips so you don't have to keep clicking on the help button for instructions

Please give your opinion on the following:

1. Is there any UI component that is difficult to understand or feels unnatural to you? Is there any naming convention that feels unnatural?
2. If you are a site admin or a mod of multiple communities, would you prefer to manage all scheduled posts within a single screen, or manage them by community? Which one makes more sense to you?

P.S. I do have plans for more tweaks/enhancements

So...what should we do? Newer comm seems uninterested to reply to comments bringing up this point, but if you thank them for their posts they're very gracious

This is a long-lived post intended to serve as a general guide and coordination point, for people interested in building communities on monyet.cc! (Context)

We're posting this in order be linked on the sidebar. But very happy to discuss / take input and questions while it's on the frontpage!

Essentials / tl;dr

• Create away!: You're welcome to build communities of all kinds here (small exceptions below). They don't have to be Malaysia-specific!
• (Temporary) Please rate limit your posts: Please post at most 3-4 items per day on a single topic. This is a short-term measure; see below for full details.

Purpose and context

• Our shared goals: Community mods and the admin team have the same goal: we want our communities to sustain and grow!
• Our roles: The admin team's main role is to create opportunities for users to visit and give us a try. But we need communities' help to convince them to create an account and stick around!

Context: This is a test of looping the community into our decision-making process via smaller posts on !meta. No promises that this will be a regular thing; this was time-consuming to write up. And likewise do let us know if this feels spammy!

After some bouncing around with the team internally, here is what we've converged on for NSFW communities.

Key considerations

Arguments for

• Sexuality is a huge part of the human experience, and so we should support this to some extent
• Reddit proves that it’s possible to host this content without degenerating
• This might be a kinda fun way of growing the userbase if done right!

Arguments against

• Unlike reddit, we don't have infrastructure to shield mods and the admin team from dealing with unsavory and traumatising content
  • People will always push boundaries. So if we allow explicit content, there will be people who post CP and other illegal stuff, e.g. leaked, personal, and private
  • Some of this may create reporting

Hi all, just an update from this post, where we asked for input on site direction and growth. We took these on board, and did some research into what other country instances and forums are doing.

Here's what we propose – input welcome before we start making changes!

1 Theme weeks, aka bootstrapping and promoting communities to r/Malaysia

• Malaysians have interests which don't get much airtime on r/my and r/mys, such as badminton, cars, dating, football, gaming, property, etc.
• If we can bootstrap a community for a topic, we can promote that to the main sub and see if this brings users across.
• This may be as simple as making sure the community has a dozen posts + a few dozen comments before promoting on r/my. So we might try some "theme weeks" to get things rolling!
• How about !malaysian_dating as a fun and slightly clickbaity first test?

2 !Malaysia channel

• We noticed that lemmy.ca, [aussie

This post is for bouncing around thinking and ideas around future plans for monyet.cc!

Where we are now

As of 25 June, we have achieved a minimum bar for success vs. our goals on this post.

• We have proven that our community can defintely set up shop here. Hundreds of people have switched over very smoothly: posters, readers, regulars, everyone.
• What this means: We have built the boats. If reddit dies, either suddenly or gradually over years, we won’t lose the community we’ve created together.
• Before reddit there were lots of cosy forums across the internet. In the worst case, we can be one of them.
• A huge thank-you to everyone who has created an account and taken part in this experiment. Especially those of you who have been helping to make this place lively and fun ❤️

The next challenge

r/Malaysia comes back online tomorrow. Can we keep this place alive and healthy, and build

Please use this post to share suggestions and feedback on everything to do with monyet.cc. Constructive criticism is super welcome!

If you're seeing this on the frontpage: FYI the purpose of this is to be a long-term suggestion box on the sidebar. But in the short term we'd love your input as to how you're finding monyet.cc so far!