FrostyTrichs

Hello again All! Back with another instance update.

Instance performance and stability

Some of you may have noticed thumbnails that aren't populating correctly, images that don't load, and occasionally even the inability to upload images here. Unfortunately we're dealing with some problems with our Pict-rs service crashing again. This problem is originating at our host and there is nothing we can do about it until the cause is found and corrected. Something upstream is causing a database to corrupt which in turn causes the Pict-rs crash. Our hosting service is aware of it and working diligently to get it corrected.

Other News

Things have been fairly quiet through this holiday season. Here's a quick recap of happenings on WG.

• !weedtime@walledgarden.xyz has been seeing more and more users participating and even branched out to more than memes! We were previously maintaining a Matrix room to hang out and BS outside of Lemmy, now we are migrating to SimpleX Chat. You can find the post with a link to join the room here.

• !gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz has been seeing more action than ever and it's wonderful! Reading people's concert stories and swapping covers of favorite songs has been great. Stop by and let us know what you're listening to!

• !loweffortmemes@walledgarden.xyz continues slow and steady growth but we had a great laugh this week when someone new dropped an awesome meme on us. Head on over to see what you're missing!

• !pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz Just launched this week to celebrate the recently released Pokemon card game on mobile. It's been a real nostalgia hit to see and play with artwork and characters from years ago. The game itself is very addicting too and great fun to play if deck building and pack opening is your thing. You're invited to check it out but be careful, you might just get sucked in!

Finally, a reminder that new member registration at WG is open and we'd love to have a few more people around. The past month or so has been spent getting the site ready for people who might be new to Lemmy and the fediverse but veteran users are of course welcome too. Spend a few minutes checking out the !helpfaq@walledgarden.xyz section before deciding if this is the place for you.

See you around!

I've been enjoying playing the new mobile pokemon game enough that I decided to spin up a community on WG for it.

!pokemonTCGM@walledgarden.xyz is a new space to share what's happening on your adventure to collect them all! So far I've been sharing some of the pulls I've been getting and a couple of us have been chatting about the game.

More people are always welcome to join in the conversation with their own pulls, questions, comments, etc. See you around!

Preemptively going to add that I already know other pokemon communities exist on the fediverse that can and probably do cover this game. I have no interest in merging with them or anything like that. I'm ok with this community never being popular as a trade off for me to post things that might be too spammy for other communities.