Waveform @waveform.social ChappIO @waveform.social 1y ago

Sunsetting Waveform.social

Hi there,

I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don't have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.

For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:

Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage... Twice.
Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.

I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.

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It was nice while it lasted, thanks for all the effort you put in!

So, where are you going next? There are at least a few sizeable synth forums out there, and it might be nice if most of us migrated to the same place. I've been back on Reddit a bit, but not sure I want to continue that.
- Just a thought - we could start a Discord server. It's not really the same kind of medium, but could still have channels for different topics (music production, synthesizers, etc.) and much easier to maintain I think.
  
  Since we're here, shouldn't we take this opportunity to make a Matrix chat instead? Private, centralized services are iffy. There's good apps too. I like Element but I haven't really tried the alternatives.
  
  I'm not opposed to whatever someone else wants to set up, I just mentioned Discord because it seemed like a low-effort solution. The upside to a corporation running it is that DDOS prevention and such are someone else's problem.
  
  I'm not as familiar with matrix as I am Lemmy, but we could just start a room (or several) on a reliable preexisting server
  
  With the new forum feature of discord this might not be a bad idea.
  
  Let me know if you’ll follow through. I’d probably join.
  
  Discord is so messy. If you come back after a few weeks or months, it's difficult to get a handle on what's been happening.
  
  This is a shame. I'll look into more robust hosting. How prohibitive a cost are we talking about roughly?
  
  Probably around 300 USD a month
  
  Wow
  
  I created a server. I haven't done much setup yet, but if anyone wants to join: https://discord.gg/CsGN9zzC

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