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.
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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.
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Start monetizing with features and donations. Being Foss doesn’t exclude this
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.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
“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.
Let’s gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I’m excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance 👍
I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I’m excited!
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.
oh interesting. I wasn’t aware of that. thanks!
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.
Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in…
Thx!
Thank you for your service o7
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Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
Isn’t “here” programming.dev?
Ah crap I got another account there, I guess I’m cheering from both lol
Caught you on your alt 😉
ETA: lemmy is acting wonky for me too, sorry for triple posting
❤
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I can finally make those shitty instances go bye-bye
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Instance blocking, baybeeeee!
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Yeah the latest update gives you the ability to block instances outright, so if you’re an antifascist you can block all the .de instances and not have to deal with weird posts constantly showing up from there whenever you talk about the nazis.
I thought Germany had extra laws against fascist rhetoric. Does that not apply to websites with that domain?
It’s less “ok they overtly support the nazis” more “that’s weird, why would you bring that up?”
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I lumme some lemmy with that lemony fresh scent
Cheers. hopefully other apps will catch up a soon as the upgrade gets implemented across the lemmyverse
Thank you for the heads up and for all the work you do. Im proud to be a part of the O.G. server!
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.
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!
Thx!
