Version 0.19 Upgrade - Done!

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.

I just want to tell you both good luck.

We're all counting on you.

If this doesn’t go well I’ll be pursuing a refund.

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.

What am I supposed to do with my free time in the meantime, do you expect me to talk to people in real life??

Hold on to your butts...

Good luck on your updates. Thanks for all your work. Raise a glass

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

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.

Best of luck and thank you for everything you do!

Welp goodbye LiftOff. Hope it ends up getting updated in the future

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.

I'm curious about lemmy.world server upgrades. How do you test something like this? Do you upgrade a private staging server and run scripts that simulate user interaction at scale, or is it more like "fuck it, v.73.9.0.367.12.42.0.9 looks safe enough, just deploy it on production"? I'm trying to think of how you would handle any kind of maintenence for something as massive as lemmy.world, and it makes my brain hurt. Frick.

Best of luck with the upgrade tomorrow, gang!

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!

You mean Imma have to get a life for a whole two hours? Maybe even more??

Liftoff is dead because of this right? It is for me at least.

Oh well, voyager seems cool so maybe it's a win I was forced to try it.

Quiblr web app updated 😇

Got logged out of both the browser and Sync. Logged back into both. Other than that everything seems fine.

🎉

Let's hope for a smooth upgrade and many thanks to all of you making this possible to all of us users!

Whoa, trippy. Your comments all have an orange-brown background?

edit: oh wow, mine too.

0.19 also introduced a /sitemap.xml endpoint, but it responds with a 404 on lemmy.world. 🤔

Posts removed by a mod and by creator is still showing up. Before the update, they would disappear from the feed.

oh man, this yellow highlight is literally the worst

Commenting from the latest version of Jerboa.

As far as I can tell so far the update went well. I was a little disappointed that I had to log back in again, old login token expired or whatever, but totally understandable.

Test comment

Think this fucked up the mod log tho

On the login page, if your existing password is less than 10 characters, the password-validation script will not let you log in.

It may be an issue with the app Memmy, but I now have a score of zero, not three thousand. It’s not a huge issue at all, just something I noticed.

Hi, all my bookmarks got totally messed up: I lost some bookmarks and for new bookmarks I never asked for.

This happens for instance on the "Traditional art" Community.

Could you please have a look?

Thanks

Did tagging people break with the update? When I type @ nothing shows up.

Took me about half hour to get logged back on!! The damn Android system blocked the button I needed to paste the absurdly complex password onto the form. Wish you coild do changes without making people log back on!