I just love how professional the Lemmy instances have become. They went from having stability issues to being extremely stable. I love our Lemmy community.

Keep up the good work!

Thank you for all your hard work!

Thanks for all this info, I knew running the largest Lemmy instance would be challenging in term of version upgrade, and I'm happy you keep us posted on all your plans! Keep up the good work!

Speaking as someone who is on an instance (lemmy.today) that ran into a bunch of breakage from the 0.19.X releases, and which still isn't fully resolved, and where the instance admin said that he wished that he could downgrade to 0.18.X but couldn't due to schema changes, I strongly endorse a conservative approach. The releases have not really met the bar that one might want for stability.

That's especially true for lemmy.world, since it hosts a large chunk of the Fediverse communities, and if it has serious problems, there are gonna be spillover effects even on users elsewhere. I'd wait until less-critical instances have been the guinea pig for a bit on releases.

I've talked a lot of shit about the whole fediverse before, but I appreciate your stance towards stability. It's what users crave! Thank you!

Thanks for the update. I am looking forward to instance blocking!

Good luck with the update! One great thing about 0.19 is that it allows users to check federation status between instances, will be awesome to get that for lemmy.world as well.

Slow and steady wins the race

Just so you know, there are some major security issues on 0.18. That’s why programming.dev immediately updated. The later bugs on 0.19 we were easily able to work around, while the security issues are major and should be resolved as soon as you can, as it affects every user.

No need to rush it if the software is in heavy churn. Just pick a date when the dust settles.

Hey just FYI, I've been experiencing a postgres memory leak issue on my instance since the upgrade to 0.19.2. Theres a GitHub issue open about it (#4406), not sure if it's something that will affect you but probably worth keeping in mind

Thank you for looking out for us mobile/desktop web browser peasants. ❤️

I for one am thankful for the admins' continued dedication to platform stability.

no rush. most don't notice minor changes. thanks

Thanks for the update. I appreciate the transparency and honesty.

No pressure from me, I know all too well about upgrading to the newest version and finding out it has a showstopper bug for the features i was planning to use.

Thankyou for running the server and helping build the community and fediverse.

Hey ever since the update boost won't show my subscriptions and my post/comment history, I can only browse in all

Is this a known issue that I should bring up with the boost people?

Edit: I logged in to the wrong instance lol

Thank you for your hard work. Much appreciated.

Lebowski.Social has also held back with the 0.19 upgrade. We are monitoring lemmy.world for now and will make our upgrade after that most likely.

We do not have a hard date set for when we will be upgrading as of yet, as we have about 7 associated task items that go along with this upgrade for things we need to double-check and confirm there will be no breakage.

Are there tickets open for these tasks so we can see what you're waiting for? Genuinely wondering

Thanks for the transparency. I'm firmly of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school. Upgrading to 0.19 is important for security, but until it is stable, it is also a risk.

I for one am glad you take your time. I jumped ship from another instance that upgraded to 0.19 back in december and was almost unusable far into january. It's now on 0.19.3 and while federation seems to work again, it's still quite slow and unstable.

0.19 breaks jerboa and idk if/ when that is getting updated

If all goes well, we will set a release day in the next week or two, most likely on a Saturday around 1800 UTC.

Any chance we get can get a status update?

Neat. Good to see constant improvement.

Unrelated: What ever happened to the weekly LW community spotlight? It hasn’t been updated in like a month

So ,if everything goes well the first update will be Saturday 10 februari around 18.00 UTC, and then every two weeks? Bonne Chance!

Take your time, stability and uptime is most important. Thank you :-)

Wondering if future plan of LW admins is to switch to Sublinks once it becomes stable?

I don't blame you guys for waiting.

what's photon and alexandrite?

Hello,

Interesting, I didn't know about the UI performance issues, but I definitely felt it recently

Sounds like the reasoning of someone who eats Jello for dessert...sensible and safe.

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Can we unpin this post? Seems like the dates in the message have passed, but this post keeps showing up at the top of my feeds, even the general feeds (all, local, etc.). I don’t think we need to pin this forever?

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I just have a question, when is this going to be fixed?

When I go to create a post/comment I'm always required to pick the language, makes no sense. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2317

"I’m sure many of you fine folks have been wondering why we have not upgraded to version 0.19.X yet.

The whole team here has been getting asked this question quite a bit, from both members of the community and other instance admins. We want everyone to know, YES, we will upgrade to version 0.19."

The issue here was never that decision, which on the whole seems sensible. It was the lack of comms. If there had been an announcement of that plan or delayed after say a week or 2, you'd probably have less of those questions. Users are stakeholders, and talking only to devs and other instance runners while ignoring users shows the level of respect you have for the users of the instance...

The ironic thing, is the communication and openness at the start was the best thing about Lemmy.World, and then later down the line, it just became an after event to communicate to users. "Decided to defederate x, y and z on Discord.". Silence on attacks for months, and silence on upgrade plans.

There is many roles on Lemmy.World, and communications probably needs more focus...