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:
- Lemmy v0.19.4 Release
- Lemmy v0.19.5 Release
- Lemmy v0.19.6 Release
- Lemmy v0.19.7 Release
- Lemmy v0.19.8 Release
- Lemmy v0.19.9 Release
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.
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 :)
What are you going to do with yourself with not being able to entertain us with your memes?
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
Ah, it’s good to be King.
Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.
FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don’t expect sorting by “top” or “controversial” or whatever to work, but sorting by “old” doesn’t, either. It’s always sorted by newest first. But at least it’s something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)
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Good luck!
Looking forward to the webUI supporting defined thumbnails per post.
Thanks!
Wow. Finally.
Nice!
Hey, do you think you can add the running version of the instance on the column that is on the right side of the lemmy.world website?
No need to do that, you can simply scroll down to the footer and find the current version there ;)
Right xd
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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the app dev is given full access to the device
That’s not how sandboxing works.
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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If I intended to insult you, I would have. But when you make an outrageous claim without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence, and I’m not in any shape to explain why your assertion that an app gets full access to your system on install is laughable. I’m also not in any shape to deal with thin skinned posters who see insults in everything, so good day.
Try Summit, it’s slick!
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.
Edit: A few days after this comment Summit has been open sourced.
Give Voyager a try as well!!
+1 for Voyager. It feels like a spiritual successor to Apollo.
Voyager makes me feel right at home as a former Apollo and RiF user.
Lemmy Connect :)
Accidentally replied to the wrong comment. Moved.
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.
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.
I’m trying out Thunder and like it for the most part, but I can’t seem to get messages to work
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.
I’ve tried but like all other apps it’s not perfect. I don’t know why you can’t tweak the spacer in your post view. List With Cards gets kinda close but the spacer is too big (and the cards could be a little more compact). With Compact view the spacer is too thin.
I also hate the way it handles user avatars/profile pictures. Why are Sync and Boost the only apps that do it properly? Hide it altogether if no custom picture is selected, otherwise display it. All the “default Lemmy” user avatars make the comment section too busy in Summit, but I want to see custom ones since it helps me identify people I recognise.
Summit also doesn’t do a different font colour for pinned threads.
No it won’t. That’s the next major release, this is just LW catching up.
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.
I’m a sync user and haven’t had any issues, what breakage are you referring to?
there are various mentioned in !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world, the main one i was referring to was the one where in some cases posts in local communities won’t show comments.
Well damn. The comments for me are not so rarely even more important/interesting than the post itself…
Biggest problem for me is that posts no longer show as read. Makes it almost completely unusable. I switched to Voyager and canceled my premium Sync subscription.
Oh phew
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.
Finally the people that got baited into adware like sync will be forced to find something better.
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.
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.
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.
Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone who just wants to express their frustration. Maybe go to another thread?
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.
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?
I mean, it was technically a different app, so I guess yes
Take a look at summit too!
Summit is my main app for Lemmy.
BOOST BOOST BOOST
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?
MAME (Arcade and various consoles/computers emulator) is at version 0.275 and it’s been developed since 1996. 😀
Wow 😆
You are right.
After 0.19.9 is said to be “1.0”
Oh cool! Thank you 👍
I can’t wait! We’ll finally get to do a real world test for the parallel sending features!! And if all goes well I’ll get to save 5 Euro a month!
Thanks LW
Final bullet point here says otherwise: https://lemmy.world/post/23471887
Only when they enable it 😆. We are also here waiting with excitement but it’s nice to know there is someone else that can be the guinea pig 😋
😁👍 Happy to be a sacrifice for the greater good
Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?
There are now settings to display or hide them
I might be a bit confused, but I just went to my settings to see, and both “show upvotes” and “show downvotes” were ticked already, by default. I refreshed the page (Ctr+Shift+R), and it’s still the same.
(Copying from my other comment)
Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on that screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)
Aaaah, I get it now, thanks! I did see the “↑ 4” bits everywhere, but it turns out that every single comment I have looked at had 0 downvotes, and then instead of going ”↓ 0”, it just simply doesn’t display downvotes. I thought I was going mad.
I liked the previous implementation, though. To me it seemed more clear.
I vastly preferred the old way as well - you are not alone.
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:
Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)
You’re right, thanks!
Don’t feel bad. I had that exact same back and forth with myself.
I was also half asleep, high, and pooping, and I still figured it out on my own…so maybe feel a LITTLE bit bad.
Congratulations.
I find the new spot for the numbers a bit wierd, because they end up in different places according to the lenght of the username and other info like instance name.
Yes, I REALLY hated that at first.
Whereas now… I still do:-).
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