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.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 years ago

      haha, we appreciate the patience. We’re not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.

      • Wes_Dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 years ago

        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.

  • Veticia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I was about the blame one of the android apps developers for breaking comments.

    edit: This one was written from a browser. Apps don’t like this new version.

    • averagedrunk@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, Infinity hates it. I’ve still got a Firefox browser app pinned that works fine though.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 years ago

      The release? 🤞 not more than a week, as long as we don’t run into major issues.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      You can finally block lemmygrad and hexbear as a whole for your account without having your instance’s admin to defederate them.

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 years ago

          it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts

          Which is enough for me.

          which could already be archived by using apps

          And that’s the thing here: You don’t need any apps anymore because it is implemented serverside. I am also not a fan of apps in general (they don’t fit my “workflow”).

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 years ago

          Naming other instances (especially those two instances) is illegal now I guess 🤣

          But I am pretty sure everyone knows what “those two” instances are, anyways.

          • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 years ago

            Blatant displays of anticommunism are not allowed on lemmy ml

            It’s the bare minimum they do to ensure it doesn’t just become another nazi bar instance.

            • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 years ago

              If those two instances are seen as problematic by the mods of an official community I wonder why lemmy.ml is not defederated from them. lemmy.ml is defederated from so many weird/extremist instances, why not from those two?

              But this is the announcement community, we should not discuss this here since it’s off topic.

              • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                3 years ago

                ml is basically the omni-instance, the only places it’s defederated from are those which outright should not exist on the federation. I’m talking unmoderated, hate speech galore, and CSAM posted on the daily. The only thing ml defederates from outside that are porn instances. I joined a NSFW instance and tbh not missing out on much, it’s mostly commercial spam and a lot of… questionable stuff.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mldeleted by creatorEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Some that come to mind:

      • Scaled sort, which takes community size into consideration when looking for top posts
      • User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate
      • The new flow for enabling 2FA makes it harder for users to accidentally lock themselves out of their accounts
      • There will be a feed option to just see posts in communities you moderate (as opposed to subscribed, local, and all)
      • Controversial sort
      • You can import and export account settings as JSON, making switching instances easier
        • shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 years ago

          There are some topics where this sorting mechanism is the only one that will give you good comments, like asking for unpopular or controversial opinions. 1000 people will get upvoted for posting things that aren’t unpopular at all, and the few comments that are actually worth discussing get just as many down as up votes.

      • squeakycat@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 years ago

        User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate

        Ooohhhhh so good. I have been wanting that.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I think scaled sort and instance blocking are the biggest new features, lots of little tweaks and bug fixes too

  • SlicingBot@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    How much longer will it be before I can finally log in and use boost or liftoff. Is there a timeline for a fix? Both have been broken since the update.

  • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Is it normal that opening comments now completely refreshes the page instead of automatically loading the page semi-dynamically? if I click the comments button on beehaw the whole page doesn’t have to reload, and it’s actually faster. This seems like an annoying regression, is there a technical advantage to this?

    edit: on further analysis, it doesn’t do a full page load when you go to your username > profile

    or when you click on comments from the link, so, I think this is actually a bug.

  • auth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    lots of new bugs… including rss stopped working, getting logged off for no reason

    • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      The logout is normal, it’s because there was an issue with the way logins worked before, that shouldn’t happen on future releases, but that is to be expected this release.

  • ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    One problem is that a few communities, while they do show up in my subscriptions list, do not indicate that I am subscribed to them when I am on the community page (for example, !asklemmy@lemmy.ml is one of those communities where I noticed that issue, it mostly fluctuates between me being subscribed to the community or not). If it needs to be marked as an issue on GitHub, you can let me know.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Its probably due to a server-side-rendering related bug we’re working through rn.

  • Salamander@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Thank you for your hard work!!

    I appreciate that you going through this test period. I hope it all goes smoothly and that at least a few hairs remain on your heads by the end of this week. Good luck!