The Friendica nodes libranet.de and venera.social are currently in maintenance mode. There is an update for the database structure. This has now been running for 26 hours. There is nothing I can do except waiting until it is completed. Sorry for the long service interruption.
I found out that ALTER TABLE statements on MySQL/MariaDB can be very, very slow when the query is executed on very large tables with many indices. The post-user table (that's the one that is responsible for the long running update) is huge. The table has a size of 140 GB and has 36 indices.
Update: The database structure update on venera.social is finally done. This node is up and running again. Unfortunately, the structure update on libranet.de isn't completed yet. I can't say how long this will take. The process is painfully slow. I'm very sorry about the terrible situation. But all I can do is waiting until the database update is completed.