In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19
release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.
We’re doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.
Some of the following will happen during the process:
- Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
- Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
- If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.
If all goes well, we’ll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.
I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.
Proud to be on the official test server 🥲
haha, we appreciate the patience. We’re not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
Thanks everyone for the server and service. It’s appreciated. If I wasn’t broke and jobless at the moment, I’d be happy to kick over some monthly money on Patreon or Kofi or whatever people are using these days.
Start monetizing with features and donations. Being Foss doesn’t exclude this
I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I’m excited!
Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in…
Thx!
“Upcoming”? Are we talking hours, days, or weeks?
The release? 🤞 not more than a week, as long as we don’t run into major issues.
Thank you for your service o7
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Let’s gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I’m excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance 👍
Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
❤
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Ah crap I got another account there, I guess I’m cheering from both lol
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This is good to hear! Have you considered releasing more often with smaller sets of changes, for future releases? It seems like this will be quite the upgrade.
Yep, we’d def prefer to do smaller releases, and we’ll try to make them more frequent and smaller in the future. The main reason this one was so delayed, is because of the large number of breaking changes, esp. w/ respect to authentication.
Thank you so much for your work on this instance.
How best to donate to help support?
Thanks! Here’s our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate . Liberapay is preferred if possible.
Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!
Can somebody explain what this scaling sort thing is to me? I’ve heard it a lot, but I don’t know exactly what it does.
It’s like hot sort, but gives a boost to inactive communities.
scaling sort thing? do you have a link describing what you mean?
One feature I’m hearing about it this algorithm called scaling sort and apparently it’s supposed to boost smaller community posts up more. I was just curious as to how it works internally.
I had a little bit of a look at it a while ago.
From memory it’s not really sophisticated. I think it divides a post’s score by the number of users its community has. So it’s not so different from upvotes / user.
It may use monthly active users rather than absolute, I’m not sure.
oh interesting. I wasn’t aware of that. thanks!
It’s like the other sort options, except it prioritizes communities with fewer subs, so that you’ll see content from smaller communities more often.
The update has broken a bunch of things for me…
On my desktop using firefox, I cannot get images to display & everything is slow to load. On my android phone, boost was showing me a ton of stuff that I do not follow & wasn’t showing me any info about my profile (profile tab would not load or something). Boost eventually logged me out & I have been unable to log back in…Images were temporarily broken due to authentication problems, but thats fixed now. If you encounter problems in apps, please them to the developers so they can fix them.
I have experienced the same login bug on the Mlem app as well. One of my devices stayed logged in and is working perfectly; my other device logged me out of lemmy.ml and I have not been able to log back in on that device.
+1 for Connect app on Android. Got booted out and unable to log back in.
This is our fault, not the fault of app devs. The post text explains it, but we’re working out a few bugs on a large instance, running an unreleased version of lemmy.
Again I’d just like to thank you for all the hard work you & all the other devs are putting into working on fixing everything that broke with this upgrade…
Thx! It turned out to be a lot more than we expected 😭
Well you all done an excellent job 👍👏
Yoooo I see the export/import settings thingie.
yea its awesome
Good luck!! If we don’t hear any exploding noises than I guess that means it is going ok?