[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.
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.
Scaled sorting is gonna be huge I think. Really looking forward to that
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.
Finally instance blocking, goodbye politics
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 🙈
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
LMAOO EXACTLY
Afaik this should also fix the linking to deleted comments, if anyone else cares.
And eating html in code blocks
And sometimes not resolving Lemmy links
And many other broken things
I’m not familiar with that one, what was going on with it?
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.
Unbroken ampersands? I thought it was just me! 🤡
Just there are new bugs and issues but they can be easily fixex
Thank you for the points. Sums up the upgrade nicely.
Unbroken ampersands? hallelujah
And at the risk of being repetitive, the ‘Prev’ button goes MIA.
Hey…I use it.
Users will have to login again or only those using 2-factor authentication? Thanks!
All users will have to login again, 2FA was completely reset, so people who were locked out are now back in.
I just want to tell you both good luck.
We’re all counting on you.
No pressure, then 😂.
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 :-)
I’m giving you 42 upvotes
If this doesn’t go well I’ll be pursuing a refund.
How exactly does one refund time spent shit posting on the toilet?
Put that shit back where it came from
So help me!
Maybe we could tune the emotion chip a bit.
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.
Thanks. This made us find out that we misconfigured it. I have now changed the configuration, hope it works.
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
Hi,
yes we noticed that, and we will look into the issue with the federation. Thanks for the reminder!
Thank you for your work!
We will look into this!
What am I supposed to do with my free time in the meantime, do you expect me to talk to people in real life??
No need to talk to people in real life. You can use another lemmy instance temporarily.
Oh thank God, I was worried there for a second.
Right, federation took the worst part of Reddit - going offline - and made it obsolete
The “worst” part…
Where shall we all flee to in the meantime?
Sleep or masturbate?
You can do as @aeharding said, or check out the links in the OP for the Matrix (and Discord I guess) servers :)
Review the git commit history and see if there are new features not listed above that may interest you.
/S
In the event of a roll back, any data created by users will be lost, (…)
You mean to say : “any data created for these few hours” …right ? …Right ?
YES! During the upgrade window ONLY 😅. Our DR plan is pretty tight, some great DBA’s on staff. (Ex Ruud)
Except Ruud? Seems ruud
Ex. 😅
Thank you for clarifying, I was rather concerned about your processes if a rollback would lose all data hahaha
lol, was definitely how I read it as well.
No, they mean any data created by users.
User data created outside those few hours? Lost.
User data on other Lemmy instances? Lost.
User data on other Fediverse platforms? Also lost.
User data on non-Fediverse platforms? Believe it or not, lost.
YES
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HEHE BOI
SUP
FAILED
Error: Failed Successfully!
Removed by mod
deleted by creator
Good job all! Thanks for all your efforts!
It’s working!!!
It’s alive!
WOOOO
A local time converter for 2024-03-03T19:00Z
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20240303T19
It looks like the front hasn’t fallen off.
Edit: context for those not aware - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM . The front section of a oil tanker fell off and it started leaking crude oil into the ocean off perth and it caught fire.
The two actors are comedians who (then) regularly did send ups of politicians in the last few minutes broadcast each week on an otherwise serious news show.
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Best of luck and thank you for everything you do!
TY 🥰
Welp goodbye LiftOff. Hope it ends up getting updated in the future
Mine also stopped working. What’s the alternative?
Voyager ;)
Sync seems to work. Unless you don’t see this message then perhaps not
And sync just got an update. Posting from sync as well
Oh so that’s why it’s buggered! Bugger…
Good luck, boss.
We wanted to announce that we will be attempting to upgrade Lemmy.World to version 0.19.3 on Saturday.
I don’t regularly deal with converting between timezones but I’m unable to figure out whether this upgrade is happening on Saturday or Sunday. My calendar shows March 3rd as being Sunday.
Yeah it’s Sunday. Someone hasn’t had their coffee yet it seems. :-)
Thanks for clarifying! Hope the upgrade goes smoothly :)
Sorry, I wrote that at midnight last night 😅 It’s Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY.
I’ll pay for the whole seat BUT ONLY NEED THE EDGE!
Leap week.
Greatly appreciate the 2FA improvement! I can finally enable it now without locking myself out, which happened every time I tried to enable it previously.
However, in true Fediverse fashion, they’ve made it 122.6% more complicated than it needs to be. Why contain all of the relevant information in a button pointing to a highly specific protocol? I had to manually copy and paste the button’s URL into Notepad++ and cut the parts I needed from it. Why not just give the secret or a QR code like literally every other implementation of 2FA that has ever existed? I’ve never seen such a button before on any other website when I wanted to switch on 2FA, even on Mastodon they use a QR code and/or the secret key.
And no backup codes? 🤔
I sound like a complainy complainer, but I’m genuinely happy/grateful I could enable 2FA. I’m just a n00b who worries about people even n00bier than I am trying to figure it out.
Cheers!
The fact 2FA has been reset should be bold and center of this announcement. Many won’t notice that 2FA wasn’t requested on their next sign-in and will be less secure as a result.
