/meta/ - Ruthless criticism of all that exists (in leftypol.org)

I'll make this brief. /leftypol/ was offline from around September 9, 2024 (Monday) until September 12, 2024 (Thursday). This was due to a hard disk failure on the server. When the split happened a few years ago, one of the previous mods/admins rented a bare metal server from a company (as opposed to a VPS/virtual machine instance) for us to host /leftypol/ on. As a result the hardware was not abstracted away. We were unable to boot the machine. Furthermore this individual, having paid for the server in advance, has since gone missing and has been so for at least 34 weeks. We were unable to log into the cloud account due to it sending his email address confirmation message which we were obviously unable to access. As a result, we could not ask the hosting company for support. Also as a result, the only thing we had access to was the cloudflare and a dated sql dump+copy of the source code. As far as I know, the media files (including pdfs), wiki, minecraft server, leftypol tv, etc. are all gone and even if the aforementioned individual returns, its possible that it still won't be able to be recovered due to the fact that they were on a hard disk that failed.

In order to rebuild /leftypol/ we had to secure new hosting, spin up and configure a server with software, firewall, etc. transfer and fix+configure the vichan/lain/leftypol source code, and load the SQL database dump, as well as configure cloudflare. This process was painstaking and slow. I suppose this goes to show the precarious nature of /leftypol/ in that both the domain name (paid for 10 years in advance and donated to the current mod team) and hosting have/are being paid by one individual as a passion project.

We are working diligently to secure backups so this will not happen again in the future.

Thank you for your patience - tech jannies

>try to use a general
>post gets immediately slided by garbage and low quality bait
where do I report this bug?

testing whether the wordfilter for FAGGOT (chvd) changed

>.onion service changed URL from 76i2c3hn55fcj5nut3tqlboqqbbh23zvphv7lefk3vftpx6wketlanyd.onion to ojzfy6mtnjkg4pbkf6fjnty22naczpek253skjm4crwftbohwgevbjyd.onion
come on now

why tf isn't LGBT its own board but instead an obscure thread in this board's /b/ equivalent (because apparently queer folk existing isn't political enough to be on the main board despite the fact there are several country exclusive main boards there)? It's how the right-wing infested board gives us better representation a space to be among our own but the supposedly leftist one doesn't

>(Low Effort B8)
How is this a bait? I live in global south and this is an issue that concerns me. Do jannies think I moved to Iraq just to troll them le epically? I kept engaging with the thread trying to make something out of it >>>/leftypol/1817055 granted most of the replies I got were reddit-tier strawmans and misrepresentations.
The idiot who put that there can easily check my IP. What absolute shithole this place is.
Will the next leftist from a shithole like mine be filtered for being critical of any capitalist/reactionary power that isn't shitmerica? No wonder you can count the anons from the global south with your fingers.

Which radical liberal decided to put the image of every contemporary leftist murderer as a banner for leftypol?

Why the fuck is this /r/politics-tier pro-DNC propaganda allowed to stay up in /USAPol/, when shilling like this anywhere else here would lead to deletion/banning? Shit, why not just close it down and turn it into a subreddit where they can jerk themselves off witbh their fellow shitlibs at how le hecking Kokonut Kop will lead big chungus USA and NATO and free Hong Kong, the Uighurs and the Ukraine from le Evil Ruzzians and ChiNatzees.