submitted 1 year ago by ada to c/main

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This is the growth of our lemmy instance, without any advertising or spruiking. It was spun up as a test more than anything else, but it seems that it has become more than that!

Even though the graph shows the growth spike from April to June, in reality it's even more stark than that. We have gone from 20 users to 100 users in a week!

We'll be spinning up a kbin instance soon too, and when we do, we might shut down registration on the lemmy instance. We'll keep them up for now though, given the load on lemmy.ml from reddit migrations

Image descriptive text: A screenshot of a graph from fedidb.org showing user growth for lemmy.blahaj.zone. It shows 20 users in April, and 100 users in June

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[-] NoxiousPluK 12 points 1 year ago

Well, glad I got in on time then :)

I got lured by the great name, and this seems like a cozy place. Thanks for hosting it!

[-] ada 7 points 1 year ago

De nada :)

[-] tojikomori@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

We'll be spinning up a kbin instance soon too…

Excitement! 🥳

I'm really interested to see how this goes: both comparisons setting up and maintaining the two apps, as well as your experience with any eventual transition/consolidation. This kind of trailblazing is so cool.

[-] jdp23 4 points 1 year ago

yes a great opportunity to experiment. thanks for doing this!

[-] bdazman 9 points 1 year ago

I just wanted to say thank you for spooling this up and running it all. I know it must be annoying sometimes but I'm really, really thankful to you all. When y'all got a way for us to buy you friends some coffee, save hyrule and send link!

[-] ada 7 points 1 year ago

De nada :)

It was mostly spun up as a playground for me to test out lemmy, but it has turned in to a whole community, which is amazing

[-] Lanthanae 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know that maintaining and moderating something like this is super difficult, especially with such rapid user growth, so I want to ask how can members of the community best help you with the community? I've already fallen in love with how kind and insightful this community is, and I'd love to help in any way possible :)

(Also, on a less general note, I'm a software developer who does full-stack development, so if there's any help that can be given in a technical sense I'd love to pitch in!)

[-] ada 6 points 1 year ago

At the moment there isn't much to do. We're ok absorbing the costs of our instances for now. We run a pretty heavily customised fork of Calckey on blahaj.zone, but our lemmy instance is almost (but not quite) straight out of the box.

Keep on chatting, and keep the community vibrant sounds like a non answer, but still, do that :)

[-] bunnegirl 8 points 1 year ago

beehaw was broken and lemmy.ml was down so i'm here now

[-] ada 3 points 1 year ago

Hi :)

[-] Nolando 7 points 1 year ago

Due to federation showing me so many posts, I thought that Blåhaj had way more than 100 users! It’s nice that we can still be connected to other instances while the server remains at a manageable level. Thanks for spinning this up and allowing so many folks to join! Looking forward to the kbin instance too.

[-] ada 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That post was made 8 days ago. We're over 1000 users now! It has been crazy!

[-] Nolando 5 points 1 year ago

Yikes, that says something about my attention to detail I guess haha. Regardless, thanks for your efforts! Do you have a means by which to accept donations for server costs perchance?

[-] ada 8 points 1 year ago

Not at the moment. We're ok absorbing the costs for now. We might set something up in the future, but it's not a priority

[-] valpackett 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we get dark theme support please? :3 lemmy.ml doesn't blast my eyes with white but this one does..

[-] ada 5 points 1 year ago

It should be under the languages section in the setting menu

[-] valpackett 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah I see… looks like "browser default" isn't working correctly here? :/

[-] CoachDom 6 points 1 year ago

So you will be ditching Lemmy for kbin?

[-] ada 6 points 1 year ago

Nope! Side by side

[-] 0x0f 5 points 1 year ago

fun :D

[-] kjr@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@ada wow!! That is a quite a success!!
And I read that you will start a new kbin instance soon? Really amazing news!!

[-] ada 8 points 1 year ago

We will! Just trying to iron out some bugs with it before we go live

[-] Gormadt 2 points 1 year ago

I got lured in by the great name and icon, and I'm sticking around for 196

This place is hopping

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not surprising. A good chunk of the time when I see a post I like it's from your instance

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