Comment on Slrpnk.net outage
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 month agoWouldn’t that mean the instance would completely restart? I mean I don’t know much about piefed but logically it seems like the DB structure would be incompatible.
Comment on Slrpnk.net outage
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 month agoWouldn’t that mean the instance would completely restart? I mean I don’t know much about piefed but logically it seems like the DB structure would be incompatible.
Kris@feddit.org 1 month ago
Not necessarily, no. We aim to preserve users, communities and posts/comments. Image uploads might get lost though.
Such an in-place migration will need extensive database operations and likely some support by the Piefed developer (to add support for bcrypt hashed passwords), but we are hopeful to make it happen and maybe this will result in a database migration script other Lemmy instances could also use.
If this turns out to be infeasible, we will stay with Lemmy rather than reset everything.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh awesome, I mean I’ve heard of other platforms like sublinks offering database migration but I didn’t think it would be feasible with piefed since unlike sublinks it’s very different than lemmy.