Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) - Keep your small instance from growing too large for your disks.

Shadesto , 10 months ago

Where can we suggest improvements?

This could be a very powerful tool if the right options are added. One of the things I’d like to see is the ability to set an upvote or comment threshold. If posts were popular, I would like to keep them. If, however, a post received very little upvotes and had little interaction, there’s not much value in keeping it. And I’m talking about all interactions here, not just from members of our own instances.

This doesn’t seem like a very hard thing to implement and would be well received.

fmstrat OP , 10 months ago

On the GitHub issues page would be a good place. That particular option would just be added to the query.

netburnr , 11 months ago

Hey there @fmstrat does this script still work?

I did a fresh git clone today, and when I try to npm start I am getting:

[email protected] start node index.js

undefined:1 undefined ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0 at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at Object.<anonymous> (/root/lcs/src/index.js:8:30) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1191:14) at Object.Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1245:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1069:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:904:12) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12) at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47

This is what I ran, I am using the Ansible install of the latest version of Lemmy.

cd src export LOCAL_URL=my.full.TLDexport LOCAL_USERNAME=myadmin export LOCAL_PASSWORD=myadminpass export PURGE_OLDER_THAN_DAYS=14 export HOURS_BETWEEN_PURGES=4 export PG_HOST=172.18.0.3 #this is the local IP on my box that answers for the docker container that has postgres export PG_PORT=5432 export PG_USERNAME=lemmy export PG_PASSWORD=thelemmydb-password npm install npm start

fmstrat OP , 11 months ago

Hmm, I should probably check the issue tracker… I haven’t checked in a while, perhaps Lemmy has changed something.

netburnr , 11 months ago

If there is anything I can do to help test, let me know. I just reinstalled my server because it had 100 percent filled up and manually deleting files was not releasing the disk space.