Hot on the heels of LCS (https://lemmy.world/post/557346), I bring you Lemmy Post Purger (LPP).
Instances can grow fast, and that can be a problem if you have limited disk space. If you don’t mind losing history that your users have not interacted with, LPP can help. It will purge posts along with their comments and media before a certain time period if no comments, likes, or saves exist for users on your instance.
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.
On the GitHub issues page would be a good place. That particular option would just be added to the query.
Starred this to take a better look later. Thank you for making this!
This looks great! I’d want more customization though. I’d want to see
- community / instance filter so it doesn’t delete everything
- purge based off of disk usage, such as 90% full, then purge.
This would allow the instance to still have content to interact with for a longer period of time.
Hey there @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com does this script still work?
I did a fresh git clone today, and when I try to npm start I am getting:
lemmy-subscriber@1.0.0 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=https://my.full.TLD export 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
Hmm, I should probably check the issue tracker… I haven’t checked in a while, perhaps Lemmy has changed something.
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.
2 hour turn around from your other post, not too bad
Yea I was on a roll. Set up my insurance and made both that afternoon. Productive day ;)
