Hello, there GINA supporters!
If you are a regular user GINA notification services, or been passing by the Minnow-Power Discord server in the past half a day, you know that GINA is currently offline.
This is a quick post to let you know what's happening and to ask your help.
What's happened?
Yesterday afternoon (utc) when I woke up, I took a quick peek on the logs to see if everything was okay. I have noticed that there are many red logs on my monitor. Which doesn't mean good.
Almost no notifications were sent out since a few hours already by than. I have tried to restart the service which usually solves any kind of complicated issue :) No help this time, unfortunately. I have also needed to go to work so no time for further investigation. I eventually decided to shut GINA down as it wasn't working properly.
Later, when I got home from work, I started looking for the cause. At first I thought it's some bug in the code, I'm a coder since 1.5 years only, so I have to check everything twice... I've spent the night with trying to find it and fix the issue but no success.
It's morning now and thanks to some help, it's turned out that the problem is not with the code but rather with my server provider. GINA needs around 50GB/day internet bandwidth but it wasn't available as before. At first I was surprised but thanks to a friend now I know that the provider doesn't support crypto projects so they might will actually ban me if I keep using the server. That I have paid for a year doesn't seem to hold them back since I have violated their TOS. Silly mistake which I will not commit again.
How can you help?
I'm asking your help to cover the cost of setting up a new server somewhere and all I need is an upvote. Please, if you can afford, press the button below and set your scale to 100%!
I will let you know when any news are available and answer all your questions in the comments or on the Discord server but I need to sleep first, it was a long night and I'm tired.
I do appreciate your help, no matter how small or big it is, Thank you!
Buildteam is already funding gina development and will gladly provide a server for it to continue existing. We are looking forward to all the awesome new features that are in the works!
Update, we got a nice dedicated server for gina and migration will begin soon. @neander-squirrel will announce when gina is up and running again.
Thank you ❤️ @reggaemuffin
great to see the Buildteam come to the aid of this much needed service. Community at work is always awesome to see. Nice work @reggaemuffin
Awesome... With a little help from friends!
So, this is how community is supposed to work? Lol awesome you guys, you are aawesome!!!
If no one else has told you today, you're awesome @reggaemuffin!!
That's what I like to hear. Awesome.
Excellent! Thanks for the great assist @regaaemuffin, to a wonderful service here on our Steem blockchain!
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Maybe you should have run for witness too because after all you are mostly doing this on your own and everyone is benefiting from GINA
I agree
Izzit GEE-nuh or JIE-na? Hmmm
GEE-nah
emphasis on the G
Excellent suggestion, @bluemist
Great idea @bluemist, and I agree. @ginabot is almost mandatory for each serious Steemian!
10/10 would vote for @ginabot for witness.
Hey, @ginabot.
Looks like I'm six hours late to the party, and that things are already taken care of server-wise. Hopefully you and buildteam will be able to get things up and running in short order.
When I first started using GINAbot, I wasn't sure if I would like it. But it didn't take long to realize that whether I liked it or not (which I do, actually) GINAbot was an essential part of my STEEM experience.
So, just like others before me here in the comment section, I hope one way or the other that GINAbot services can continue to roll forth. And if somehow it comes out bigger and better than before, all the more awesome.
Onward and upward.
Well said @glenalbrethsen.
Well, thank you, @lyndsaybowes.
It's been a bit quiet around here. It's like flying blind all of sudden. Didn't think I would miss it that quickly, but I do. I'm hooked! :)
I'm in a sorry state of affairs over here too...
that's why things have been silent for a while.. can't survive steemit without @ginabot.
voted and resteemed.
#thealliance
You can definitely have my 100 % upvote! I hope you are able to get the funds needed to put Ginabot back online, because Steem would be a much worse place without it.
Ohhhh! That explain a lot.. i thought Gina was on leave because she was heartbroken!! 😂
Get some rest bud! I dont have much but i will support your cause cuz Gina has been great!!
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You got a 100% from @ultrablackhole and myself. Hope you can find a new server. GINA is the engine for my @ultrablackhole electronic music curation initiative. Without her, it would be nearly impossible to keep track of new posts under certain tags. Keep up the great work.
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I haven't gotten around to use ginabot personally (due to spam towards my account) but I know a lot of people that rely on it.
Good luck fi/unding a new serer.
You can filter out whatever you don't want to get. Maybe don't subscribe to transfers, votes and comments, but do subscribe to things like people's posts (I get notifications when interesting people I follow make a post), mentions of certain words, etc.
Oh cool, guess it has improved since I first tested it. Thanks for the info!
You have a huge variety of things you can choose to get notified about now, so you should definitely give it a second chance once it gets back online. I pretty much only get notified about mentions, resteems, and posts from a few selected authors, and I don't get much spam. However, I'm probably getting a lot less interactions here than you do, so you might end up getting spammed even when keeping the settings strict.
Upvoted and resteemed! I hope you gain the support you need! I would be lost without Gina! #steemitbloggers