R.I.P. Yesterweb
hi my name is iris, i wrote the software that runs this service.
ok so . as im sure you're aware, the yesterweb "shut down" quite a while ago. like 4 years ago. yestercities stayed up as many users were still actively using it, but due to my own mental health and the community exploding, i stopped maintaining this service. sorry to those of you who continued to use it despite that.
recently, a malicious actor abused the a vulnerability in the webdav file manager that i had running in addition to everything else, and managed to delete every single user's files. thankfully, tsvety (the one who actually hosts this service) had automatic backups of everything. i've now created a read-only version of this service to allow users to collect any files they would like to keep.
moving forward, i did intend to create a new host on a new machine that is unrelated to the yesterweb, using new and improved server software. if this does happen, it will probably be closer to april or may of 2026. this page will be updated with information on migrating or signing up on that service.
thank you for using yestercities for so long <3
Mar 03 · 2 months ago · 👍 thoughtterminatingcliche · 😭 1 🙁 1 ❤ 4
9 Comments ↓
seriosuly? such a small community and already villains?
👻 darkghost · Mar 03 at 00:07:
People are no damn good!
I believe that some people are able to reanimate it by moving those blogs to another server. However, I am personally moving my blog to the multi-homing I2P model. There weren't many readers before, and there won't be many after.
I hope that malicious actor was just an incompetent user with a buggy script.
🚀 thoughtterminatingcliche · Mar 03 at 17:59:
I wish you courage and rebirth
🐦 roughnecks · Mar 06 at 00:58:
I guess it make no difference how big are you.. Villains are everywhere.
Sometimes I say: "If you're self-hosting, don't ever look at logs" (because they're pretty scary, you know).
@roughnecks Don’t even keep logs. You can’t be compelled to hand information over to evil governments when it doesn’t exist.
🐦 roughnecks · Mar 07 at 08:31:
I never said I'm storing them ;-) but logs are important for other reasons too.
Thank you for making what looks like a popular space. I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to experience yesterweb when it was still live, but I’m glad it’s still available in read-only form. That was very kind of you to let everyone save their stuff!