[Update - March 3rd 2024 , 21:14 CET]

The update seems to have worked well. The database migration took some time, but after that it looks everything works as far as we tested. Let us know what you think! And if you like our work, check the donations links in the sidebar ;-)

(As you might notice, the new comments are shown YELLOW, that’s not a bug, it’s apparently a new feature in Lemmy…)


Hey everyone,

We wanted to announce that we will be attempting to upgrade Lemmy.World to version 0.19.3 on Sunday. The update will start at 2024-03-03 1900 UTC and should hopefully take no more than 2 hours. In the event there are issues, we will roll back to 0.18.5. In the event of a roll back, any data created by users will be lost, so we’ll try our best to avoid this!

Hopefully downtime should be minimal <3

During the upgrade, please feel free to make yourself at home on our Matrix and Discord chat rooms.

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Please follow Lemmy.World (@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world) - Mastodon for updates.

As usual, status can be tracked by visiting https://dash.lemmy.world and https://status.lemmy.world

Thanks for your patience in waiting for us. Stability is king for us!

-LW Tech Group

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For those out of the loop, 0.19 brings nice features to Lemmy World like:

  • Unbroken ampersands (&) in titles.
  • Improved 2-factor authentication, which will disable it for those using it, so you’ll want to reenable it after the upgrade. I think in turn this may sign people out, so be sure you still have your login info around, and if things are acting kinda odd, maybe clear your cache.
  • Scaled sorting to help surface less active communities.
  • Instance blocking via user settings, so if there’s an instance you don’t enjoy seeing communities from, you can block them. This does not block all users from said instance.
  • Import/export account settings, which includes your bio & various settings like show/hide bot accounts/NSFW content, default sort settings, etc., subbed communities, saved posts/comments, and blocked users/communities/instances.
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Scaled sorting is gonna be huge I think. Really looking forward to that

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You can try it out on other instances right now, but really the effect it will have on Lemmy as a whole when applied to its biggest instance is the exciting thing.

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Finally instance blocking, goodbye politics

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goodbye lemmynsfw, with its’ somehow constant stream of different types of kinks showing up in hot no matter how many communities I block from it 🙈

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Fuck I actually hate that more than politics. The NSFW filter does not hide titles so your in a public space browsing Lemmy and you get 5 posts in a row of “Big COCK mmm yummy 😋😋😋🤤🤤🤤” in big font

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Afaik this should also fix the linking to deleted comments, if anyone else cares.

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And eating html in code blocks

And sometimes not resolving Lemmy links

And many other broken things

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I’m not familiar with that one, what was going on with it?

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Basically you can’t link to a deleted comment, and deleted comments don’t show up at all in threads. There’s also a bug where a comment that has a deleted reply shows as having “(x) more replies” hidden under them, but clicking it just endlessly loads.

If I’m not mistaken in 0.19.x they show up as “removed comment” and you can actually link to them and/or see eventual replies to them.

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Unbroken ampersands? I thought it was just me! 🤡

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Just there are new bugs and issues but they can be easily fixex

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Thank you for the points. Sums up the upgrade nicely.

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Unbroken ampersands? hallelujah

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And at the risk of being repetitive, the ‘Prev’ button goes MIA.

Hey…I use it.

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Users will have to login again or only those using 2-factor authentication? Thanks!

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All users will have to login again, 2FA was completely reset, so people who were locked out are now back in.

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I just want to tell you both good luck.

We’re all counting on you.

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34 points

No pressure, then 😂.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide has been comforting me since I first discovered it in a charity shop at the age of 12.

People are truly strange, it’s not just you, and the universe is more than we know. I found that comforting, and Adams’ humour opened a whole new world to me :-)

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If this doesn’t go well I’ll be pursuing a refund.

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How exactly does one refund time spent shit posting on the toilet?

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Put that shit back where it came from

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9 points

So help me!

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Maybe we could tune the emotion chip a bit.

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Hi

Pls check how much traffic you’re now sending out for every activity - my server is recording that everything from lemmy.world is being 4 times (e.g. 1 Upvote is sent 4 times to every instance that has a subscriber. Those instances will reject 3 of them for being dupes, but it’s still a lot to be sending out).

lemmy.ca had a problem where they were sending everything 3 times, and it was because they were running 3 containers, and they all had the same index number, so maybe it’s that.

Thanks.

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Thanks. This made us find out that we misconfigured it. I have now changed the configuration, hope it works.

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Edit: FYI, I opened the Lemmy Matrix and see that you were already discussing the the dbzer0 admin

Hello Ruud,

Thank you for your work on LW.

Kind of hijacking this thread, but are you aware that 19 instances seem to be constantly lagging behind? https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.world

Among them

I usually use Reddthat, but used this account to make sure that this would go through.

Slight ping to @Rooki@lemmy.world as they commented on the previous comment

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Hi,

yes we noticed that, and we will look into the issue with the federation. Thanks for the reminder!

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We will look into this!

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