Hello everyone, It’s pretty late here, but I wanted to clear the air and say that all major technical problems have been resolved with this instance. We’re ready to upgrade to the latest release when it is available and will move to open registration again when CAPTCHAs are re-added in said next release.

For fun, here are all of the things we’ve managed to get working/solve so far:

• Bot Spam: Manually deleted 2.5k+ bot accounts, added preventative measures

• Email: Added SMTP relay, fixed config

• Images: Fixed image uploads via NGINX config

If we have any more issues, I’ll let you know as soon as possible. For now, it looks like things are working as expected. We welcome you to this instance if you are new here and are (as shown above) working through issues as quickly as possible to provide a compelling experience for new Lemmy users.

- EuphoricPenguin22