lots of German speaking channels with several hundreds and thousands of members but no content whatsoever, some of them with no posts for the last 6 months…

what happened?

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
      1·
      2 months ago

      The owner vanished and the other Admins miss the ssh keys to be able to migrate it. Also feddit.de had a partially fried database after a disk ran out of space

      • ksharp@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 months ago

        Seriously, what’s up with owners vanishing? Kbin.social, Kbin.run, feddit.de?

        Not even a message saying something like “this project is taking up too much of my time, bye everyone.”

        • superkret@feddit.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          It wasn’t like that. The owner went on a long vacation during which the server’s disk ran full, the database was corrupted as a result, and the backup was overwritten with a corrupted state, before the owner returned.

          feddit.org was created as a community effort to keep that from happening again.