8mo ago

7.6% of Lemmy servers are already running 0.19.8, released yesterday

fedidb.org

FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics

Edit 10PM CET: 10.9%

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It would be more useful to see metrics weighted per active user it's trivial to update a server if it's just for yourself, and likewise it's easy to let it lag a few versions behind.
What's more relevant is the version number the large instances are running
- You can filter https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy by monthly active users.
  lemmy.ml, hexbear and Lemmy dbzer0 are the only ones in the top 10 to run 0.19.8
  discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.zip and sopuli.xyz, infosec.pub are in the top 20 and run 0.19.8 as well
  Note: 0.19.6 and 0.19.7 had an issue with pictures thumbnails, which is why quite a few instances kept running 0.19.5
  The elephant in the room is obviously LW which hosts around a third of the monthly active users but still run 0.19.3
  A month ago someone asked about this on !support@lemmy.world, for people interested: https://lemmy.world/post/22173840
  Edit: added hexbear, discuss.tchncs.de and infosec.pub which just updated
  
  we'll try to get the post out the coming week, at this time we're roughly looking at updating late January.
  
  Total MAUs are so low. You really need solid double digit YoY growth (20-30% YoY) to have a strong trajectory in the medium term.
Heh, I upgraded from 0.19.5 to 0.19.8 today just to see this.
So when is it safe to upgrade, and from/to which version(s)?
- I've become a fan of staying one version behind for a month or two, unless there's a security issue that is involved in which case I'll patch.
  I like it when someone who isn't me finds out the catastrophic breaking issues and has to do the cleanup, and I'll wait for the fixed version. :P
  
  Me too. This is also fueled by the fact that there are no admin tools for announcing releases, and you can't set notifications for any new message in a community, and the releases are announced in a community.
- Due to unpleasant experiences, not the first day :)
  
  People who were there for 0.19.4 remember 😅
  But this one seems quite stable, it is a fix for 0.19.7, so hopefully no bug
- See my other comment: https://feddit.org/post/5681514/3636860
just did the jump fro. .5 to .8 today (for all of my 2 active users)
I don't even know in which version is my instance (Lemm.ee) I'd like that mobile clients showed up this value more easily (maybe they do but I am dumb, I use Summit, Voyager, Boost and the defunct Sync).
- 0.19.7
Sadly, I still don't see pictures being displayed on lemmy.cafe - perhaps that problem was unrelated, or the upgrade process isn't entirely finished yet.
- Indeed, I raised in on the local community
Ok
- Oh shit I haven't seen anything from hilariouschaos in forever even tho I sort by new and new comments all the time.
  I thought the instance died. Good to see y'all still here
  
  I'll have to federate our communities again maybe. Ty for heads up! Good to see you to
- Ok
That's one thing I really like about lemmy.ml compared to some other instances, it's always kept up to date. I'd host my own for myself but then it's just another thing I'm responsible for and I'd rather not.
- The point of this post was to show that other large instances like lemmy.zip and dbzer0 updated the day of the release

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