Run on July 7th, 20235:40 pm Pacific: Working on cleaning up the CloudFormation deployment which failed during the 4.1.1 update.10:05 pm: Shutting down the load balancer and backing up the database.10:39 pm: CloudFormation template update complete. Re-ena...

Keeping up with regular transparency reports has been a challenge.  I want to be open about the operations of the site, though, so instead of saying "sorry", I'll just get us up to date.General StatisticsAs on June 2023, MontereyBay.social has 39 members,...

On February 16th, we updated the instance to run Mastodon 4.1 and moved to the AWS datacenter located in California. The maintenance window took longer than anticipated due to problems executing the latest CloudFormation templates.TimelineAll events are d...

Happy New Year!  This is the monthly transparency report for MontereyBay.social, where we review the operational status of the instance, provide statistics about administrative and moderation activities, and talk about any changes that I'm considering.  E...

Hello everyone!  This is the first transparency report for MontereyBay.social following our launch in late November 2022.  I will cover general statistics about the instance, the operational status of the services, moderation highlights and lowlights, the...

MontereyBay.social experienced a minor degradation in service related to uploading certain types of videos.  Here's the incident report, analysis, and resolution.On Wednesday, December 21st at 21:19 UTC, MontereyBay.social received a report of video uploa...

I'm glad that you are here.  I created the hub.montereybay.social web site to host all of the "Mastodon adjacent" pages that are needed for a social networking service.  There's a page that introduces our administration and content moderation teams -- jus...