The kobold.page Status Page

What's up with the world's second goblin server? This is what's up. Logo by @sesamenom!

[kobold-page]

October 22, 2025. Final status update, for anyone who wants to know.

I know the server has been unavailable for a while now, because I’ve been having issues with stuff in the rest of everything.

It’s not coming back up.

I got fired today, and as part of an immediate plan to reduce expenses I’ve deleted the Linode the server was running on. There’s no more kobold, effective a few minutes ago.

I apologize to anyone who was using the server, both for the long downtime and for the shutdown. Anyone who had an account can easily find another one on a Mastodon server, or on a similar service like Bluesky.

I’m sorry.

[kobold-page]

Dammit. Server’s down and I’m having a full hell day at work.

Fighting with it later.

[jv]

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

[jv]

To be clear, I don't have any news about any impending doom. But I've heard a bit more about what's going on with staff after the layoff of last week, and there are even less people than I thought still working here.

I don't think even the current staff know what's going to happen, but honestly, I don't see how the high ups could even pretend to intend to keep this place open while virtually unstaffed.

[jv]

And of course, if the most despicable thing happens, you can find me at @[email protected] from any fediverse platform 🤷

[kobold-page]

If the most despicable thing happens, I'll do what I can to get kobold.page ready for (a reasonable number of) people to move.

[sirilyan]

At the intersection of goblin, nginx, and certbot is three days of downtime.’

I’m a little sad how little I missed the fediverse.

[kobold-page]

I think I might turn on open signup next month. Why should @jv have all the fun of wondering if this is the day the entire server comes crashing down?

[kobold-page]

Cohost's mistakes were trying to make money and working on new features.

(I've been focused on Day Job and Self-Care, which take up time and energy that would otherwise go toward Why Don't Other Servers' Hosted Emoji Work and Oh Yeah User Custom Domains Would Be Awesome.)

[sirilyan]

You could make an entire full-time job of replying to image memes on social media sites and saying “this is actually from Tumblr, here’s a link to the original poster”.

If Tumblr goes away, something that has produced a tremendous amount of good for the internet will be gone, and I’m not just saying that because I’m posting from an instance that’s specifically designed to bring a Tumblr-style interface to ActivityPub.

[kobold-page]

Well, something broke enough to take the server down. Time to investigate the logs, open a bug about it, and try to find a way to push through 30-degree heat and work on it.

[kobold-page]

Outage solved and site back up, and it is the exact opposite of any problems in goblin.

Always DNS? The way to bet, but this time Expired SSL

[kobold-page]

Well, something broke enough to take the server down. Time to investigate the logs, open a bug about it, and try to find a way to push through 30-degree heat and work on it.

[goblin-social]

So basically Goblin development have been kind of halted for a few weeks, because I’ve been working on a new project at my day work that depletes my programming itch for the rest of the day. Now it has reached a point where it’s starting to get boring (The day-job project), so I expect me to start wanting to do some dev on my free time once again soon :)

[kobold-page]

Hey, you stole my line.

[kobold-page]

Status

Here's the current status of kobold.page:

Is kobold working right now? Yes.

Current version: The server is running on revision 43e816, which is the main branch as of June 2.

Known issues:

Refer to the GitHub issues page for goblin.

Next update window: Sunday, June 9, 9-10pm EST.

[kobold-page]

Yay! Update window went off without a hitch, so to celebrate invite codes are open and I'm gonna keep them open. Send a request via Tumblr message and I'll send you back an invite code to sign up.

[kobold-page]

Status

Here's the current status of kobold.page:

Is kobold working right now? Yes. It appears to have been something with nginx, so a restart fixed it. I'm going to investigate later.

Current version: The server is running on revision f234da0, which is the main branch as of April 26.

Known issues:

Refer to the GitHub issues page for goblin.

Next update window: Saturday, June 1, 9-10pm EST.

[kobold-page]

Catching up after my trip and the process of settling back into work. It has been a slower process than I’d like.

I’m going to schedule an update window for Saturday evening, and I’ll update with it. A lot of new stuff from @jv to update with!

[jv]

Oh my god, I have wanted tumblr to add this filter to the notifications tab FOR YEARS. I mean the “only from people you follow” in the top right. I don’t know how I didn’t think about adding it to goblin since the very beginning, but it’s done now, yay!

[kobold-page]

No update window this week

My partner is here and we are gallivanting all around the country for the next week.

See you two Fridays from now! The server is a little bit behind the current release, but we'll catch up.

Message me for an invite code in the meantime, and I'll hook you up!

[kobold-page]

Feeling a little ick and under the weather today, so no update window or Follow Friday.

[kobold-page]

I guess at some point I should set up an email server, if only so I know I can have automatic password resets.

(Nobody's asked for a password reset yet, but this is the sort of thing it's better to have-and-not-need than need-and-not-have.)

[kobold-page]

Okay, I've got it up and running. If you're a kobold.page user, you can update your email address in Settings. The server will require you to re-enter your password to prove it's you, then to click on an email sent to that address to verify it's good,

[jv]

hi! love your work, little bit of feedback on it rq if that's ok

1

on mobile, the website doesn't resize or display properly, one of those two.

2 when i go to sign up, it says that all the slots are full (understandable) but mentions that there's other servers that run goblin, are there currently other servers actually running goblin, and if so, do you have a list or smth? and would it make sense to include them in the invite code thing? (this is the real thing I'm hoping gets answered tbh)

anyways, i hope you're having a nice day/week/time

oh yeah, about #1, that's my mess to fix: I built a new version of the logged out page and I didn't test properly on mobile, I'll fix it in the next few days.

and about #2, at this point there are three servers running goblin:

https://goblin.band (my own),

https://kobold.page (@sirilyan's, with its own tumblr: @kobold-page)

https://goblin.stopdelaying.com (@analytik2's)

The invite code thing is for my own server, Sirilyan run his own invite list for Kobold and Analitik2 works on a "ask me for an invite" policy, for what I know!

Also, if anyone wants to start their own server, they can get the code and install goblin at https://github.com/johnHackworth/goblin

[kobold-page]

I've created https://github.com/johnHackworth/goblin/issues/93 to track this, because I like lists.

Also, invite codes this weekend are still open, message me on Tumblr and be a human being and a code is yours.