Ice Rock @IceRock@glaceon.social

Hiking to the center of the region's coldest tundra, you finally find it: The Ice Rock. It radiates with an unknowable energy.

You reach forward and touch it, wiping away a layer of snow. The ice is crystal clear, so it's not difficult to see that something is frozen inside it.

A laptop computer is running, despite no obvious source of power, and messages are occasionally printed to a terminal window. If you squint, you can just about make out what they say...

Here's the commit for the change btw

Figuring out what number of backslashes to put in the replacement string for that first gsub was a nightmare of trial and error and I still don't know why this is the correct answer.

Hey everyone! Quick update about something I've been meaning to do for a while but hadn't gotten around to until just now.

This instance no longer has markdown lists! In theory, anyway. The code that prevents them is kind of a hack.

Anyway, markdown lists provide almost no value over plain text, and unlike other formatting which is just lost on instances without rich text, markdown lists caused entire toots to be mangled beyond the point of readability.

I've been escaping my lists for a while now, anyway, but now it's done automatically. So you no longer have to worry about lists screwing up on other instances!

That said, please let me know if you do manage to create a markdown list! It would be interesting to see.

Damn, this place is bumping! It used to be that whenever there was a notification about a new user, I had pretty goods odds that I was about to ban a spammer.

Welcome aboard, everyone!

I'm genuinely surprised by how smooth that was. It was so easy it's actually suspicious. Hmmm.

If you notice anything broken, let me know at @​monorail!

Hey, you may have noticed that the instance is kinda unstable at the moment. That's because I'm currently updating stuff and I'm nearly out of ram ._.

When it's done, I should be able to update pretty seamlessly.

...but it's me, so maybe not. Expect possible downtime.

Just got a spam DM from a user on crypto-group-buy.com, an instance that came into existence this month and who's users seem to have posted a grand total of 0 times. I find it hard to believe that it's currently being used for anything other than spam.

We'll be suspending https://witches.live on Monday. every user here who follows someone there has been sent an automated DM letting them know to reach out to anyone there that they'd like to maintain ties with before then.

I may have to turn off the instance for a while to fix it

uhhhh oops i broke the settings menu

@monorail Not as painless as I would have liked but a lot better than it could have been.

We're back!

If it goes wrong, you can catch me at my backup account, @monorail

See you soon!

Hey! There will be an update coming soon! I've finally got a dev instance set up so I think this should actually go fairly painlessly, but... well, we'll see. c:

By the way, welcome also to the mod team... @socks!

Their main account can be found at @socks but they've offered to lend a hand moderating here, since they're in a much different time zone than the rest of the team.

*drumroll*

Please welcome to the glaceon.social mod team... @HollyFromTheBox!

Don't expect a lot of change, it's just going to be nice to not have to handle everything myself.

Jortage, our media provider, recently had an issue involving account archives that has now been resolved. If you requested an account archive and never received it, please try again!

heads up, expect 10ish seconds of downtime extremely soon

Hi everyone!

The transition from Amazon S3 to Jortage is complete! \o/

If you notice any weirdness with media, especially things like old posts getting boosted onto your TL with broken attachments, please let me know! That's all supposed to be taken care of now, so if anything's still broken, that's a problem that needs to be addressed.

Thanks!

Ah, by "mild weirdness" I should clarify that I mean "almost every image is broken". But nothing is lost, it's getting migrated over, it just doesn't look very good rn