[Update] Version 0.19 Upgrade - Done!

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[Update - March 3rd 2024 , 21:14 CET]

The update seems to have worked well. The database migration took some time, but after that it looks everything works as far as we tested. Let us know what you think! And if you like our work, check the donations links in the sidebar ;-)

(As you might notice, the new comments are shown YELLOW, that's not a bug, it's apparently a new feature in Lemmy...)

Hey everyone,

We wanted to announce that we will be attempting to upgrade Lemmy.World to version 0.19.3 on Sunday. The update will start at 2024-03-03 1900 UTC and should hopefully take no more than 2 hours. In the event there are issues, we will roll back to 0.18.5. In the event of a roll back, any data created by users will be lost, so we'll try our best to avoid this!

Hopefully downtime should be minimal <3

During the upgrade, please feel free to make yourself at home on our Matrix and Discord chat rooms.

Lemmy.World Pub

Matrix

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As usual, status can be tracked by visiting https://dash.lemmy.world and https://status.lemmy.world

Thanks for your patience in waiting for us. Stability is king for us!

-LW Tech Group

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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.

Scaled sorting is gonna be huge I think. Really looking forward to that

You can try it out on other instances right now, but really the effect it will have on Lemmy as a whole when applied to its biggest instance is the exciting thing.

Finally instance blocking, goodbye politics

goodbye lemmynsfw, with its' somehow constant stream of different types of kinks showing up in hot no matter how many communities I block from it šŸ™ˆ

Fuck I actually hate that more than politics. The NSFW filter does not hide titles so your in a public space browsing Lemmy and you get 5 posts in a row of "Big COCK mmm yummy šŸ˜‹šŸ˜‹šŸ˜‹šŸ¤¤šŸ¤¤šŸ¤¤" in big font

Afaik this should also fix the linking to deleted comments, if anyone else cares.

And eating html in code blocks

And sometimes not resolving Lemmy links

And many other broken things

I'm not familiar with that one, what was going on with it?

Basically you canā€™t link to a deleted comment, and deleted comments donā€™t show up at all in threads. Thereā€™s also a bug where a comment that has a deleted reply shows as having ā€œ(x) more repliesā€ hidden under them, but clicking it just endlessly loads.

If Iā€™m not mistaken in 0.19.x they show up as ā€œremoved commentā€ and you can actually link to them and/or see eventual replies to them.

Unbroken ampersands? I thought it was just me! šŸ¤”

Thank you for the points. Sums up the upgrade nicely.

Just there are new bugs and issues but they can be easily fixex

And at the risk of being repetitive, the 'Prev' button goes MIA.

Hey...I use it.

Users will have to login again or only those using 2-factor authentication? Thanks!

All users will have to login again, 2FA was completely reset, so people who were locked out are now back in.