QOTO Announcements & Polls @QOTO@qoto.org
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We only posts announcements here and occasionally use polls to help us make decisions that effect our user base.
We don't usually respond quickly to direct messages to this account. If you need help with anything related to the QOTO servers, including moderation, then please contact one of our administrators. They are listed out about page:
Joined Oct 2018
One small reminder over the most recent upgrade. Because of changes in 3.0.0 our search index had to be recreated. Because we have one of the largest historical collection of toots in the fediverse going back several years this means it will take quite a while to re-index. It may be a day or two until full text search is fully working again but it will slowly come back online. Thanks for the patience.
QOTO's varient of Mastodon is now deployed, version 3.0.1 is now active with all sorts of new features.
Aside from the new features mentioned here there are a few others I want to point out: https://qoto.org/@QOTO/103517518837050128
Aside from a few new features in your profile settings one really nice new feature is that all moderator actions with regards to suspending or silencing an instance is automatically reported on our about/more page. This means you are always promised to see a live up to date report of any servers we decide to block or silence. Help keep us honest.
Enjoy v3.0.1!
While we wait for the system administrator to start flipping the bits and begin the upgrade I wanted to update everyone on what this new QOTO update will be bringing us.
* Fixes character limit when using mobile apps. On compliant mobile apps it should now be possible to make full size posts of 65,535 characters just as you always could in the web interface.
* Local-only / non-federated toots will now be possible. This lets you make toots that show up int he Local feed but not in the Federated feed.
* The link to the source code on our about page will now correctly post to the QOTO source code
* Plus all the great features QOTO is already known for like in-line math latext is still available.
* And of course we also pull in all the great features added in the core Mastodon 3.0.1 releases such as trending hashtags, better media support, better user migration capabilities, and better management over live-refreshing fast-moving feeds.
WARNING!
In about an hour the server will be going down to upgrade to v3.0.1 as well as some qoto specific features and fixes I will be announcing shortly.
Another #QOTO moderator election has just begun. All users are encourage to follow along and cast your nominations here:
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-december-2019/110/2
We have an election for the next #QOTO Moderator. Everyone is welcome to nominate exactly one person, including themselves.
Do so here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
Server Update
The #QOTO #funkwhale instance experienced a some downtime lately, not sure for how long. It has recently been fixed and the service should be back up and running.
The instance can be found here: https://audio.qoto.org
Please dont forget to nominate yourself or someone else in the ongoing #QOtO moderator election.
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
QOTO Announcements & Polls
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Important Announcement
Today we are beginning a nomination for #QOTOs next moderator 🎉
Basically it works like this, any one of you can nominate someone from QOTO. The only restriction is the person you nominate must be active for at least the last month. You can even nominate yourself, but it usually looks better if you can get one or more people to nominate you, symbolically speaking.
The moderators will then select the finalists which if there is more than one person then the community can vote on them.
So for the next 2 weeks I will be taking nominations for the moderator position, and they can discuss their views as a potential moderator. Then we can pick who lines u with QOTO Ideals,
**Want to nominate simeone?**
Follow this link and pst your nomination: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
Server Info
After an upgrade to the QOTO services all services are now up and running again. Downtime was ~5 minutes.
The following qoto services were updated:
NextCloud - https://cloud.qoto.org
GitLab - https://git.qoto.org
GitLab pages (including user hosted pages) - https://*.qoto.io
FunkWhale - https://audio.qoto.org
PeerTube - https://video.qoto.org
Discourse - https://discourse.qoto.org
Server Info
All services except for the main qoto mastodon instance will expiernce some brief downtime in about an hour as i upgrade the servers.
Shouldnt be more than 5 minutes but there will likely be a DNS update that may take a bit longer to refresh for some people locally.
Important Announcement
Today we are beginning a nomination for #QOTOs next moderator 🎉
Basically it works like this, any one of you can nominate someone from QOTO. The only restriction is the person you nominate must be active for at least the last month. You can even nominate yourself, but it usually looks better if you can get one or more people to nominate you, symbolically speaking.
The moderators will then select the finalists which if there is more than one person then the community can vote on them.
So for the next 2 weeks I will be taking nominations for the moderator position, and they can discuss their views as a potential moderator. Then we can pick who lines u with QOTO Ideals,
**Want to nominate simeone?**
Follow this link and pst your nomination: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nomination-for-moderator-nov-2019/92
For those of you who missed the announcement from the @freemo account just wanted to reiterate it here.
In honor of our new Indian friends we added two new emoji to the server.
Also if anyone has any emoji they want added, even if its just for personal use (like a monogram of your name or a picture of your own face, anything) we can add it. Just send a 50kb or less PNG image to @freemo and it can be added.
All my new Indian friends who found their way here this week (and others).
Dont forget to do two things to help you get some followers:
1) write a post about yourself, include as many hashtags as you ca think of along with the #introductions tag and a paragraph or two. I will reboost these
2) Go into your profile settings and opt-in to the proile directory. This ensures people can find you. It also helps if you add the same tags from your introduction post to your description in your profile. These tags help index you in the profile directory
3) Stay active and post interesting stuff (and some stuff relevant to STEM). If you do then on friday I will share your account in Follow Friday and help get you more followers as well.
Should we make the arXiv bots unlisted (so they don't show in the Local Timeline).
Keep in mind this will cause the bot to not federate and thus wont be enjoyed by the rest of the Fediverse.
The #QOTO bots should be live again. With that said they may be a bit noisy over the next 24 hours as we tweak them. A few are all set to go off in the middle of the night so they tend to publish all in a row. We will keep an eye on it and potentially unlist them as needed.
The #QOTO suite of services, including git, had some temporary downtime today as we addressed a bug in the system.
All services should be back up and running, no data loss occurred.
What feature would you like to see the Admin's at #QOTO add to our mastodon instance next?
If you don't see what you'd want in the poll just comment it down below instead.
- Qoto Information
- https://qoto.org/about/more
Mod
We only posts announcements here and occasionally use polls to help us make decisions that effect our user base.
We don't usually respond quickly to direct messages to this account. If you need help with anything related to the QOTO servers, including moderation, then please contact one of our administrators. They are listed out about page:
Joined Oct 2018
