Not yet. We're talking about if/how we want to do it though

Yeah absolutely. The main issue here is that this lemmy instance was spun up as a side project for me and until 10 days ago, I was basically the only user. We never planned for a reddit migration and 1400 user signups in a single week, so things are not currently configured optimally for two active instances.

We're aware of it though, and will get everything humming along smoothly, once we've had a chance to catch up :)

I mean, if we expected lemmy to grow in to an instance 3 times the size of blahaj.zone, we'd have done things differently from the start, but suffice to say, we didn't expect Blahaj Lemmy to be anything but a bit of a sandbox for me to play with, so we made some initial choices that didn't scale well with sudden unexpected growth :)

I don't understand. What's grass? :P

Any consideration in upgrading the server version to 17.4?

Yep. That's on the radar. We're trying to get a kbin instance up and running too, and we'll most likely upgrade lemmy once that has been done.

are there any alternative channels where server status is posted?

Not yet. A week ago, it was basically just me on this instance. Now it's me and my 1400 closest friends :)

Alas, there is no status page. The consequences of a community that grew almost overnight :)

We will probably get a donations page up soon, but we want to make sure we do that correctly if we're going to do it.

The real issue is simply that this instance was set up more as experiment initially, with basically 1 user, and suddenly it's got 1500 users. The growth caught us by surprise, and it was never set up with this growth rate in mind. Got it under control now, and we will be keeping an eye on future growth