I’ll consider your opinion.

Ah, I guess I must have overlooked that part. There are several reasons for not wanting to allow signups.

One is quite simple, cost. Right now this is running on a small, single core instance. It often stutters (especially when handling video updates), and that is not an issue, since that just means it’s going to take small while before updates are sent out. But you wouldn’t want to have that delay for actual users. Right now the costs are quite manageable, if I have to scale up in order to provide a fluent experience for its users, not so much.

Most of the other reasons come down to the responsibility of having to provide a home to any outside users that sign up. I don’t have the interest or time to maintain a community of people, nor to guarantee the uptime that such a server would require. It also wouldn’t work. The largest Lemmy instance in existence, lemmy.world, has defederated from this instance. So any users that sign up here, would be devoid from content on there. And as you said, any other instance can decide to do so at any time (in fact, I very much suggest they do so in the FAQ).

I could go on, but I think you get my drift.

@criitz@reddthat.com @Halosheep@lemm.ee @Cagi@lemmy.ca @Hanabie@sh.itjust.works @SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml @WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de: First of all: those are some wonderful usernames. Secondly: I have taken your concerns to heart and made some changes. See my update here: https://lemmy.ml/post/6190779.

Voila:

2023-10-07 17:23:54,906 - root - INFO - Community Boise is ENABLED, has 67 subscribers and 0 posts per day.

I understand your argument, and fully agree. There’s over 800 communities that I have to check though, so mistakes will be made.

No problem, as far as I’m concerned, all suspensions are negotiable. Which one was it? I’ll re-enable it straight away.

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If anyone builds this as an optional feature, I’ll gladly accept a merge request for it. I don’t I will be running it on this instance though.