1y ago

When this post is 6 hours old, lemm.ee will be going down for an upgrade

Hey folks!

Lemmy 0.19 was released this week! It brings a bunch of awesome new features, so I hope you are all willing to forgive some downtime in order to upgrade to this latest version.

Unfortunately some migration will be necessary as part of this upgrade, so it might take a while, but I will try to keep it as short as possible.

I hope you are all having a great holiday period, and I will see you soon in 0.19!

Edit: Update complete!

Welcome to 0.19! Unfortunately, the upgrade took somewhat longer than usual, but I believe everything is in order now. As always, please let me know if you notice anything strange, and have fun!

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It's well worth some downtime, Lemmy 0.19 is a major QoL upgrade. Thanks for giving us some advanced notice though!

Admin not dead confirmed, very cool.
- Comes back with the chadest post possible
  
  Fucking legend.

Using relative time to display timezone-agnostic date is brilliant lol
- it used to be a standard procedure on reddit.
  
  I've never seen Reddit upgrade their Lemmy version 🤔
- Finally, he solved all the issues with synchronization

it's been nice to lemmy with you, gentlemen
- May the lemm be with you
- 🫡

Thanks a lot for you hard work and commitment!

Thank you, man! I was curious about your absence in the last 2-3 months, but figured there is not really much to do until the BIG upgrade. Thanks for being here, being you! Awesome admin, awesome instance! Thanks for all your work!

FYI, if anyone had 2fa it will be disabled after this upgrade and you'll have to do it again.

Thanks for all the hard work you all do!

Finally, I can block hexbear now!
- I will miss you.

PSA For lemm.ee users who cannot sign in and are getting messages similar to "logged in (green)" "incorrect credentials (red)" back to back when trying to sign in:
Clear your browsers cache for lemm.ee
Try to sign in again
Not sure if this is widespread but it worked for me.
- I had to log out and back into the Memmy app.

- Thanks god
- Lmao same here
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- Oh dang, is that still federated with you guys?
  
  Yep, lemm.ee doesn't defederate so aggressively. This isn't in support of tankie groups though, if anything it's in spite of feelings towards hexbear.

LETS GOOOOO

Keep calm and lemm.ee on.
Time for another donation!
Question: will this affect our ability to upload pictures?
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Seems like a lot of servers are upgrading today.
- Well, the update came out on Friday so that tracks. Besides, this update comes with a whole db shake up (took about 30min on my one user instance) so it makes sense to do it over the week end.

Since the upgrade to v19 I've noticed the all applications and web site seem to be very very slow to initially launch and return subscription and user info.
This is happening in both Voyager app, Thunder, web site default and web alexandrite.
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?
- Lemmy 0.19 has some perf issues, hopefully resolved soon
- Yes, I am seeing it across multiple Lemmy apps as well. It has made it virtually unusable for me.

I'll be in bed, upgrade away.

Voting on a post appears to no longer count as "read", and thus is not filtering from feed. Intended? Or am I doing it wrong?
Still very excited for this upgrade, thank you!
edit: I guess on the plus side, it looks like it's not "just me", so maybe there's a bug they're working on.
- My feed is just a bunch of already read stuff now, I don’t know how to refresh anymore :(
- Try logging out and back in.
  
  Tried that, as well as purging all browsing data/cookies.
  I am just using web app, no 3rd party.
- I'm having this issue as well. Let me know if you find a solution.

Look forward to a lot of the features this will bring, thanks.

That's cool, hope all goes well with the upgrade! Same to any other servers upgrading today.

Great stuff, thanks for all your hard work!

Thank you admin for your service.

Still seeing "read" posts, even thought "show read posts" is unchecked. This didn't happen in 0.18.
- Having the same issue here, both in the web interface and in Jerboa on Android
- I also still have that issue, said the same further down. Can't seem to find if this is an official bug/issue or not.
  
  I haven't seen any official word acknowledging it.
- This one seems to be specific to lemm.ee, other instances on 0.19 don't have this problem.

PSA for Thunder (ios) users: account management gets messed up after this upgrade. Logging out and logging back in again fixes everything.

This is the perfect Christmas gift and the new upgrade looks great! Excited to see Lemmy continue growing. It’s really helped improve my relationship with social media and cut back on my doomscrolling while encouraging me to participate and break out of my lurker shell.

- Strange, I had to re-login but the app works fine. It was a little clunky though, I had to login twice.

Thanks for the warning, and thanks for keeping the instance up to date! Much appreciated.

I'll be sleeping, nice timing yay. Thanks for your work tho!

Thank you!

Thanks!!

Something up with search? Doesn’t seem to work (both in the Memmy app and Lemmee in the browser).

After the lemm.ee server upgrade (excited!), when I scroll past the first loaded Subscribed "page" in the Jerboa app, it provides a "Posts failed loading, retry" message. It seems to dynamically load multiple pages for "Local" and "All" just fine. I have no idea if this is a server/lemm.ee or client/Jerboa issue, just wanted to see if anyone else has seen a similar problem or has ideas to fix. Thanks.
Edit: trying to approach from the Jerboa side as well. https://lemm.ee/post/18370957
- Could you check if you can reproduce this in the web browser at https://lemm.ee ?
  
  Seems OK via the browser (hit next to load a few pages). Might be the app, or the Jerboa app (0.0.52) interacting with the new server weirdly? I may try a full re-install just to be thorough.
  Edit: tried a full uninstall, reinstall, and login. Same issue on my end. I suppose it may be better to try and attack this from the Jerboa side.

Looking forward to the new update, been really enjoying lemmy so far

Still cant upload pictures 😢

Time to celebrate by blocking hexbear!
- Slightly disappointed that it only blocks posts from blocked instances, not users.
  
  Oh I didn't even realize it worked that way. I think that's kinda nice though, so you don't get partial conversations. It is a really bad thing though if there's a toxic instance that continues to harass you, so it should probably change for that reason alone. I wonder if they can still see your posts if you've blocked their instance?

Best wishes in that endeavor, and thanks!

Good to be back!

Awesome, thanks for keeping the instance up-to-date!

Looks good so far. Thanks again!

Do you have an approximate timetable for the upgrades/downtime?
Thanks for all you do!

My account wouldn't validate any more in Jerboa, so I logged out, cleared my cache, and now the app crashes when I attempt to log in.
My other accounts are working, though. Not sure if it's a lemm.ee problem or a Jerboa problem at this point.
- The version on the play store is not current, or at least, it wasn't when I last checked. You need at least 0.51, I think. If the play store is still out-of-date, you can grab the latest and manually install it from here.
  
  It did eventually update and the app is working with lemm.ee now.
- I had a similar issue in Boost, but logging out and back in fixed it. There was an update a couple weeks ago that fixed logging in on 0.19 instances. Looks like Jerboa got a fix as well.
  
  That's the problem though. I can't log back in because the app is crashing. Logging into other instances is fine.

Since the update to "UI: 0.19.0 BE: 0.19.1-rc.1", pagination for comments seems to be broken? or disabled? @sunaurus@lemm.ee, do you know if this is a lemm.ee thing or a lemmy thing? I don't see other people mentioning this when I looked for an issue.
What I mean: go to https://lemm.ee/c/meta?dataType=Comment&sort=New, and scroll to the bottom. The "Next" button is disabled (and if you edit the html to enable it, pressing it does nothing).
- This is for sure a Lemmy thing, not a lemm.ee thing, but I can try to investigate further if I get a chance.