I always assume there is someone working to fix things

After being a member of SDF for over 2 years, I always assume there isn’t.

Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

No, for three reasons:

• I paid for SDF. That’s more than I can say for most services I use that are orders of magnitude more reliable. In fairness, I paid once, expecting to pay every year, because I like to pay for what I use. But I never paid again because the service is utter shit. Sorry to be rude, but that’s just the plain reality.

• I tried to contact someone in the SDF shell chat thingy and it’s always been crickets. I’ve given up on that.

• What the hell can I do to “contribute to better uptimes” aside from running a server at home on behalf of SDF?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, […]

I’m not waiting. I’m currently evaluating Piefed with a view to moving my communities over there if it proves good and reliable. As for my personal account, I already have this one on Sopuli as a backup (now my main account) and I’ve created another one in piefed.social and imported my settings there too.

I’m done with SDF. The next - and last - time I post from my SDF account is to lock my communities and redirect subscribers to their new home.

Let’s hope it lasts this time.

Next time it goes down, I’ll move my communities and my user account out to Sopuli permanently.