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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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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A picture you can hear, holy. Vividly, lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Love your punctuation. I can hear it in Chris Walken's voice

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (17 children)

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

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

[–] Shadow 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shadow 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

there are various mentioned in [email protected], the main one i was referring to was the one where in some cases posts in local communities won't show comments.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give Voyager a try as well!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago
[–] mp3 18 points 1 month ago

Hopefully this will improve the sync/federation process between LW and other instances, especially those further away geographically :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

A whole hour of nice and quiet on the Lemmyverse? 😜

❀️❀️❀️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn't ready for a Reddit Exodus.

Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we're in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain't it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

in my opinion it's the login experience. selecting an instance is too confusing for the average user.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

https://old.lemmy.world/ has a "show images" feature

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[–] mp3 12 points 1 month ago

Congrats on the successful upgrade πŸŽ‰

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not a dev/programmer, but does the version number starting with a zero suggest that Lemmy is still in a pre-release state? Like alpha or beta or something? If so, what needs to happen before it gets to version 1.0? Just curious! From my layperson's perspective, Lemmy runs great and I have no complaints about it, so I'm not sure what v.1.0 would look like. Or maybe it's all internal stuff that I'll never notice anyway?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are right.

After 0.19.9 is said to be "1.0"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MAME (Arcade and various consoles/computers emulator) is at version 0.275 and it's been developed since 1996. πŸ˜€

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (35 children)

It's a bit of a shame we don't see any significant new features in this release. Piefed seems to be developing at a much faster pace compared to Lemmy, which is a bit embarrassing tbh.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

considering that we're coming from 0.19.3, this does still introduce quite a few bigger changes for LW.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Good luck!

Looking forward to the webUI supporting defined thumbnails per post.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

There are now settings to display or hide them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's cool, but it doesn't seem to work for me. I have all on in my settings:

But the numbers don't show:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the β€œβ†‘ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as β€œβ†‘ 87 ↓ 1”)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Wow. Finally.

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