On June 27:th, the https certificate for lemmy.today was supposed to renew itself. Its set up to automatically renew every 3 months, and its been working perfectly since the site was started over 2 years ago.
But this time it failed to do so, due to a syntax error in the web server config that was not noticed until this incident took place.
Its been fixed now but took more than a day unfortunantly. Sincere apologies for the long delay - it was because I was on vacation in Madeira and in the process of travelling home that day.
Life finds a way to kick us in the balls sometimes.
We will never shut it down just like that… It would be incredibly rude and insensitive towards you guys and we just dont operate that way as people.
This place is supposed to be very different from big tech platforms, and that means we see users as people to start with.
See you guys around!
Chad energy having mfing mod!