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Site News

• 2018-05-22 spambots began creating accounts on toot.cat; we soon implemented a policy of immediately suspending any of these that tooted spam links, and silencing the rest.
  • There were a few dozen accounts created as of evening the next day.
• 2018-05-20
  • 13:23 ET A long-overdue server reboot resulted in all message windows being depopulated. I retreated to the TootCave to focus on the problem.
  • 13:39 ET It turned out to be a misconfiguration in Nginx, and I don't know why it was even working before. See HTYP for details.
• 2018-05-03 Email issues fixed. There nonetheless seems to be a deficit in Mastodon diagnostics.
• 2018-05-01 Ongoing email issues are making me tear my hair out. (How appropriate for May Day!)
• 2018-04-26
  • Toot.Cat is successfully migrated to a new server and the latest version of Mastodon.
  • LottieVixen joins TootCat as sysadmin
• 2018-04-16: working on upgrade and migration
• 2018-01-25: Mastodon software is up-to-date with no major issues.

Mastodon News

• 2018-04-30
  • Sina of cutie.space announced (cache) that she will no longer be serving Mastodon from that domain, effective within a matter of hours, due to a decline in users, and will be replacing it (cache) with something less resource-intensive.
  • witches.town goes offline
  • Woozle posts a reassurance that toot.cat will not be going away anytime soon.
• 2018-04-27 Ginny McQueen of kitty.town posted on Medium asking for help; Woozle posted about it on Google+.
• 2018-04-02 The sysop of witches.town announced that the site will be shutting down on April 30.