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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I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I’m excited!
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.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
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Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in…
Thx!
Let’s gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I’m excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance 👍
“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.
Thank you for your service o7
o7
Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
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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
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Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!
This is good to hear! Have you considered releasing more often with smaller sets of changes, for future releases? It seems like this will be quite the upgrade.
Yep, we’d def prefer to do smaller releases, and we’ll try to make them more frequent and smaller in the future. The main reason this one was so delayed, is because of the large number of breaking changes, esp. w/ respect to authentication.
can anyone tldr all big features coming in the new release?
Some that come to mind:
- Scaled sort, which takes community size into consideration when looking for top posts
- User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate
- The new flow for enabling 2FA makes it harder for users to accidentally lock themselves out of their accounts
- There will be a feed option to just see posts in communities you moderate (as opposed to subscribed, local, and all)
- Controversial sort
- You can import and export account settings as JSON, making switching instances easier
User will be able to block instances without the need for their home instance to defederate
Ooohhhhh so good. I have been wanting that.
Unblocking would be pretty damn awesome too.
Controversial sort
this one sounds like an awful idea ngl
Why?
it seems like the sort of thing that’s purposely geared towards people finding the dumbest possible comments so they can start an argument with them
Yeah, it could be fun.
There are some topics where this sorting mechanism is the only one that will give you good comments, like asking for unpopular or controversial opinions. 1000 people will post things that aren’t unpopular at all, and just a few will post something that’s actually worth discussing.
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Thats so cool. I think this update will be the death of reddit
If I remember correctly it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts which could already be archived by using apps.
A shame but better than nothing I guess.
it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts
Which is enough for me.
which could already be archived by using apps
And that’s the thing here: You don’t need any apps anymore because it is implemented serverside. I am also not a fan of apps in general (they don’t fit my “workflow”).
It’s nice, but it could be better.
I think scaled sort and instance blocking are the biggest new features, lots of little tweaks and bug fixes too
What’s scaled sort?
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
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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.
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.
It’s like the other sort options, except it prioritizes communities with fewer subs, so that you’ll see content from smaller communities more often.
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