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I'm going to be rolling out some new software over the next few weeks, and part of that process will be winding down our existing services to make resources available for the new ones. To start off that process, I'm announcing today a wind-down of the status.net service.

TL;DR Active accounts on identi.ca and status.net sites will continue working. Inactive accounts will be shut down, with backups available. All accounts will port to new software.

ur1.ca, the URL shortener used by default by identi.ca and other StatusNet sites, has been having technical problems over the last few days, which has caused performance problems and errors for those users who depend on it.

The server is on Amazon Web Services, and the underlying hardware is scheduled for replacement. I/O is failing or timing out.

As a workaround, users should configure their URL shortening to use the internal shortener; see http://identi.ca/settings/url for details.

I got in early yesterday after a redeye flight from Portland. I was at Open Source Bridge and IndieWebCamp last week, and had a great time talking to people about the things I care about: Open Source software and culture and the excitement around the Indie Web. After my long flight home, I hit the sack and slept half the day away, and spent the rest of the time playing with my deeply-missed kids. Which means I managed to completely forget it was July 2, Identi.ca's birthday.