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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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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Congrats on the successful upgrade πŸŽ‰

[–] kuato@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A picture you can hear, holy. Vividly, lol

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] sga013@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] ruud@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you think you guys could do a post on the underlying hardware/infrastructure of .world? I would love to see what it takes to run the largest Lemmy instance lmao

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

in short form, we have HAproxy running on a hetzner cloud VM for Lemmy/Lemmy-UI, another HAproxy VM for the alt UIs, a VM for the alt UIs.

for the main LW box, which runs lemmy containers, lemmy-ui, pictrs and a database each for lemmy and pictrs, we have a physical box with an EPYC 7502P 32 core CPU, 128GB memory and NVMe SSDs.

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[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I can sort the comments [ new/old etc] now! ( Jerboa).

[–] sga013@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago
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[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are the comment upvote and downvote numbers gone intentionally?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

There are now settings to display or hide them

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days 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:

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 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”)

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] markko@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think it's just a matter of explaining instances in a clear and concise way. This isn't a Lemmy-specific issue though - it's a problem for all of the fediverse.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose.", but that still leaves some things unanswered.

It seems to have done a decent job of helping new users find a suitable server with a few simple questions though.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (21 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@lemmy.ca 42 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (4 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.

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Give Voyager a try as well!!

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days 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.

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.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days 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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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.)

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago
[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] astigma@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 :)

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

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

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 4 days ago

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

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