We will restart Cerberus and the meow.social platform around 5:15 p.m. Paris time. At the same time, we will test a procedure designed to speed up the platform's restart for future restarts.
Update : the chaos monkey has fixed things.
Your sysadmin has turned into a Chaos Monkey - like the ones at Netflix - and has found a network issue, so if you notice any slight slowdowns or network errors, it's him.
He's currently working on fixing the problem.
Microsoft emails seem to be working again; Outlook services are back online.
At the same time, we signed up for their service that allows us to whitelist Pigeon's IP address. We conducted a security review and strengthened our DNS records accordingly.
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
We’re once again experiencing issues with emails failing to send to Outlook servers, but that’s to be expected as they’ve been down since yesterday.
You might want to consider switching email providers; this is simply unprofessional at this level.
Heads up we noticed MS mail services (e.g. outlook, hotmail...) had yet again meow blocked leading to undelivered emails. We already took action to resolve this once more and mails should go through within the next 48h.
If you were expecting something (confirmation email, etc.) don't hesitate to reach out to us via contact form for any help!
# October 2026 finance report! :boost_requested:
# Donation links
· https://
patreon.com/meowsocial
· https://
ko-fi.com/meowsocial
· https://
liberapay.com/meow.social
· https://
paypal.me/meowsocial
# Expenses
· Meow's bill was 251€
# Income
· Meow raised 380€ total
· Patreon covered 199€
· Ko-Fi covered 181€
· Liberapay/Paypal covered 0€
# Net difference
· +129€ 🟢
# Staff balance
· 0€
# Added note
We bid farewell to the older servers once and for all with this, reducing our bill drastically! Thank you everyone, y'all keeping meow entirely funded without any cost out of our pockets!
# September 2026 finance report! :boost_requested:
# Donation links
· https://
patreon.com/meowsocial
· https://
ko-fi.com/meowsocial
· https://
liberapay.com/meow.social
· https://
paypal.me/meowsocial
# Expenses
· Meow's bill was 430€
# Income
· Meow raised 383€ total
· Patreon covered 202€
· Ko-Fi covered 181€
· Liberapay/Paypal covered 0€
# Net difference
· -47€ 🔴
# Staff balance
· 0€
# Added note
Thank you again for all of you who are helping keep the lights on! Next month we'll be going back down in expense, as the old hardware is fully removed from the equation, so we should see the green dot again!
We will be restarting meow.social at 4.00 pm Paris time to apply security updates to our server’s core system.
Security release v4.7.4 deployed on meow ! ✅️
✅️ Fix applied, support.meow.social is back !
https://support.meow.social, which is used to submit support tickets, has been reopened, and we have updated to the latest version of PHP, which includes the security fix.
At the same time, we noticed that Microsoft had once again blocked Pigeon (our mail server), so we have had our IP address removed from their blacklist. Emails should now be sent to Outlook addresses again.
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
Greetings,
We are taking the support.meow.social website offline for maintenance whilst we await the latest security updates for PHP. In the meantime, you can contact us via our account directly on meow.social or via our personal accounts.
meow.social will remain online during this time and will not be affected by the security vulnerability.
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
🛠️ Maintenance took longer than expected
Today at 16:14 (CEST), we rebooted our server to apply updates. meow.social stayed down until about 16:20.
Our database connection pooler (PgBouncer) started a fraction of a second before its network was ready, and failed. Mastodon could no longer reach the database and gave up retrying in under a second.
What we fixed:
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
We will restart the meow.social platform around 4:00 p.m. Paris time and will be unavailable for 15 minutes to apply kernel updates.
# August 2026 finance report! :boost_requested:
# Donation links
· https://
patreon.com/meowsocial
· https://
ko-fi.com/meowsocial
· https://
liberapay.com/meow.social
· https://
paypal.me/meowsocial
# Expenses
· Meow's bill was 430€
# Income
· Meow raised 390€ total
· Patreon covered 199€
· Ko-Fi covered 181€
· Liberapay/Paypal covered 10€
# Net difference
· -40€ 🔴
# Staff balance
· 0€
# Added note
Thank you as always! Summer might be ending, but that just means it'll be cooler again!
# September 2026 finance report! :boost_requested:
# Donation links
· https://
patreon.com/meowsocial
· https://
ko-fi.com/meowsocial
· https://
liberapay.com/meow.social
· https://
paypal.me/meowsocial
# Expenses
· Meow's bill was 430€
# Income
· Meow raised 383€ total
· Patreon covered 202€
· Ko-Fi covered 181€
· Liberapay/Paypal covered 0€
# Net difference
· -47€ 🔴
# Staff balance
· 0€
# Added note
Thank you again for all of you who are helping keep the lights on! Next month we'll be going back down in expense, as the old hardware is fully removed from the equation, so we should see the green dot again!
✅️ Database migration complete
We have completed our maintenance work to migrate from PostgreSQL 14 to PostgreSQL 18.
meow.social remained operational throughout; there was no downtime and the transition took less than 5 seconds.
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
🛠️ Database migration work in progress
A migration to the latest version of PostgreSQL (version 18) is currently being planned to take place with "zero downtime" (or less than 30 seconds).
We are currently laying the groundwork by setting up pb_bouncer so that we can switch between active and passive modes.
We will do our utmost to minimise any disruption caused.
Thank you for your understanding.
🔧 Service disruption on September 19 - resolved
Between 18:45 and 19:18 CEST today (16:45–17:18 UTC), meow.social returned intermittent errors for about 33 minutes. Many of you could not load timelines or post.
The cause was an expired TLS certificate on our server. It should have renewed automatically, but that renewal task had been silently removed by a recent package update.
The certificate is renewed and valid until December 18, and automatic renewal is back in place.
Thank you for your understanding.
💜 The meow.social Team
We will restart the meow.social platform by 9:30 p.m., and we should be back online around 9:45 p.m. Paris time.