Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:


Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we’re still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

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This is the update that’ll break sync, right?

Sad times, but I guess I’m gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

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Give Voyager a try as well!!

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16 points

+1 for Voyager. It feels like a spiritual successor to Apollo.

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8 points

Voyager makes me feel right at home as a former Apollo and RiF user.

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42 points

No it won’t. That’s the next major release, this is just LW catching up.

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7 points

Oh phew

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5 points

For me Sync has been broken since long ago (proud Summit user now), my instance has always been updated faster than .world though, so I can’t really pinpoint since which version I started having issues with it.

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partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.

iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won’t be entirely broken.

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I’m a sync user and haven’t had any issues, what breakage are you referring to?

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6 points

BOOST BOOST BOOST

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1 point

Lemmy Connect :)

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Accidentally replied to the wrong comment. Moved.

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6 points

the app dev is given full access to the device

That’s not how sandboxing works.

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You don’t need to understand the underlying OS best practices because the app dev is given full access to the device

You also don’t need to understand the underlying OS to make false claims about how it works.

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Former Sync user of around 5 years. Recently switched to summit and it was a pretty easy transition. I’ve made plenty of rants about how the Dev just abandons paying customers and I finally had enough once I knew that it actually messes things up if you try to report some things.

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I can’t make any other app look and feel as nice as Sync, honestly. I was trying out Thunder just now, and maybe I could get used to it but the user avatars don’t work for some reason. I don’t disagree about ljdawson though and I wish it was different.

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I’m trying out Thunder and like it for the most part, but I can’t seem to get messages to work

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If you haven’t tried Summit, give it a go, the default look is NOT Sync like but it has a lot of customization options and I feel like I’ve gotten my setup looking pretty close.

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4 points

Take a look at summit too!

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4 points

Summit is my main app for Lemmy.

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Finally the people that got baited into adware like sync will be forced to find something better.

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15 points

I used sync for reddit for years, but I kinda hope sync dies. But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads. Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued. One of the top posts on the sync community when I checked was to not report PMs because it will actually report a random comment with the same ID, which is just a massive fuck up given the amount of spam PMs.

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But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

Is that even legal?

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I mean, it was technically a different app, so I guess yes

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they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

Exactly. Not even a discount. I think it was even more expensive than the reddit version.

I just checked. It’s $20 to remove ads. Wow.
I also checked to see how much it cost for the reddit version. I paid $4 to remove ads and $5 for the “pro” version. That’s more than I’ve paid for any app. Now they want another $20 to remove ads on an app they neglect and ignore their customers? Disgusting.

Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued.

Not just continued, but has gotten worse. Additionally, it’s even more important to update more frequently because of the more frequent changes. It was also never fully functional for Lemmy. For example, spoilers have never worked.

To add to all that, they don’t even have the decency to pop in for a quick comment or two just to help people feel better.

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Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone trying to value their work higher. Maybe just use a different app? Ironically I was a pro user on Reddit and have never been forced to upgrade on Lemmy as it has never shown me a single ad despite the fact that I would in heartbeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , I have never had issues with any Sync app and I’ve been a user since…I dunno 2013?

I do agree that JDLawson has become more reclusive but he was never all that interactive with the community to be honest. I don’t see that updates or stability of the app has really been an issue. Any time I have had problems they have always been native to Lemmy.

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Honestly I was fine with the rebuy at first since it was a significant recode AND because they promised to stay on top of development a lot better than they had in the past. Obviously that was a lie and that’s why I’m frustrated with them.

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4 points

Try Summit, it’s slick!

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Try Summit, it’s slick!

Yeah, yet another proprietary app is really the place to go.

Thunder works great, it FOSS, and under active development.

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Good luck admins! And thanks for doing it during the Carabao cup final so I have something else to occupy my time while lemmy.world is down :)

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Nice!

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22 points

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What are you going to do with yourself with not being able to entertain us with your memes?

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9 points

Well in my reddit days, I would open the app, see it was still down and angrily close it again

But with the far superior decentralized Lemmy-verse I just have to switch to an alt on a different instance lol

So now the game plan will be open app, waste a minute waiting for the timeout on my .world account and remember why and then switch to my .cafe account LMAO

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Ah, it’s good to be King.

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