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Once again, thanks for your patience! The current outage is being worked on. When things are available again, I'm hoping that a lot of the backend performance issues that made the app nearly unusable with the current load are solved. I'll also be working towards a more highly available setup.

I'll send an update when everything's back online again. I did not anticipate these many users so quickly, so thanks for your understanding <3

Things are technically alive again, and many of my fixes did stabilise the infrastructure, but a few more problem areas remain, with some temporary workarounds put in place. Fluxer HQ is open, but it's also a bit slower than most other communities for now, so have a look around in the Fluxerverse!

I'll be working to process the backlog of thousands of users who signed up when manual verification was required. Sorry about that, and thanks for your patience!

(1/2) I've also noticed that when this restriction is put in place, you also get an email asking you to verify your email. This has been pretty confusing, and I'll fix this behaviour (should only send when your registration attempt is approved).

(2/2) You don't lose access to your account if the email verification link expires, you can always sign in when approved and request a verification email from there!

I couldn't have expected Fluxer to get this far, and I've received an enormous amount of funding through Visionary (and there are still many slots available!) to keep this project alive, scale its infrastructure, and quite possibly also extend the core team beyond myself. Huzzah!

The last part is my biggest worry. I have 2k member community and I am investigating where to move. But I am weary of putting my eggs in a basket maintained by one person. I love what you have accomplished so far and want to support federation too, but I need a stable place too.

To be fair, it isn't maintained entirely by one person, I've seen other people around in the main community with roles indicating they're part of the team they are, however, the majority contributor at the moment

but with all these new eyes on the project, I bet some will start contributing to the software to improve it, too