Hi Tenno ^{and Envoys}!

Earlier today (or yesterday, I guess), I took parts of dormi.zone down for about 2 hours to assess and migitate possible damages caused by a security vulnerability in lemmy-ui (the part of Lemmy you see in your browser), see here: https://dormi.zone/post/98161
(You probably had to log in again, that’s normal)

The good news is: We were never vulnerable!

The bad news: Some of you might have been a bit lost during those 2 hours.

If you were using a third-party app such as Jerboa or Liftoff, you could continue accessing dormi.zone as usual. Same if you were a user from another instance. But if you were registered on dormi.zone, you’d run into a 502 error and have no idea what’s going on.

Now that I’m back from work, I’ve taken some steps to ensure you’ll be properly informed next time:

• dormi.zone is now on Mastodon! I’ll be using this account to keep you informed about outages and planned maintenance.
• When the dormi.zone frontend is down, instead of getting a 502 Bad Gateway error that doesn’t tell you anything, the site will direct you to this Mastodon account for status updates.