Lemmy World updated to Lemmy 0.18.5 [2023-09-30 1700 UTC] UPDATE DONE

Chickenstalker, 8 months ago

Lemmy is more stable now compared to a month ago. This is the growth that matters, not user counts. Thank you devs for the hard work.

favrion, 8 months ago

Will there be notifications this time?

antik, 8 months ago

You mean like some kind of announcement thread in the announcement community announcing a date and time for the update, hours before? That is a good idea I’ll run it over with the other admins!

favrion, 8 months ago

No, I mean push notifications.

nix, 8 months ago

Is it just me or does the lemmy github not include info of this release on the release notes?

antik, 8 months ago

True, but they are on Matrix.

matrix.to/#/

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43067ef2-84cc-4724-beda-96d5a467bb42.png

nix, 8 months ago

So weird they would put it on matrix and not just make a thread here lol

owlboy, 8 months ago

The way people use Discord is similarly odd sometimes. Times are a changing.

deweydecibel, 8 months ago

Not for the better.

Mechanize, 8 months ago

I don’t know why but they are on a separate branch: 0.18.5_release_notes

Reading the commits it seems they want to keep them on join-lemmy, instead of having a changelog/releases file in the github.

They first added the 0.18.5 changes and then deleted the full content of the releases file and put to go to join-lemmy.org/news

obinice, 8 months ago

How difficult is it to apply these updates?

I was thinking of setting up a personal Lemmy instance, but the idea of getting it all set up and working, and then an update breaking things and my not having the advanced skill to fix it, worries me >.<

ksynwa, 8 months ago

It depends on your setup and the nature of the updates.

This update is small. If you are using docker/compose, you’ll have to do nothing but update the version number of the image.

Large updates sometimes have database migrations that take a long time.

Once in the past, there has been an update that raised the minimum supported Postgres version which was the most tedious. But cases like this are rare.

webjukebox, 8 months ago

We need something more simple compatible with Lemmy for hobbyists and for those who don’t want to be all day setting up things every time.

I also was thinking about my own personal instance, because I want to see everything federated and then choose what I don’t want to see, but everybody’s tutorial is different.

Man, I miss the good ol’ times with “upload via FTP, run the “install.ext” file in a browser, setup database credentials and then you have it”.

Fediverse needs single-user applications.

gabe, 8 months ago

There are some in development! Gotosocial is very very single user friendly and easy to setup and so is writefreely. I do hope in time there is a “lemmy lite” version that has local communities disabled completely and more local user friendly settings. It likely will in time, but we will see.

gabe, 8 months ago

It’s gradually improving but its 100% not ready for full production outside of enthusiasts who are willing and patient enough to take the time and effort to wrangle with its quirks. If you want to self host (especially as a single user) and aren’t prepared to make vigorous backups and aren’t extremely technical inclined/are a regular average user it’s *really *not worth it right now. It likely will be in time, but there’s a lot of issues with lemmy that need to be addressed. Thankfully the coming update will address some of its most serious though. It helps to be involved in the admin matrix community chats and generally accepting community assistance, but it’s just far too much to keep on top of for most people. If I didn’t have a community and mine was a single user instance, I 100% would have shut it down weeks ago and migrated over to a larger instance.

NOT_RICK, 8 months ago

FYI for anyone wondering, CEST is two hours ahead of UTC so unless I’m mistaken this upgrade will happen at 1700 UTC.

antik, 8 months ago

I mean the link is right in the announcement, you click it and it shows you the time in your timezone :D

0110010001100010, 8 months ago

Yeah but UTC is easier. I know I’m UTC-4 at the moment (stupid DST).

That said, thanks for all you do! I’m sure running this Lemmy instance can’t be easy!!

NOT_RICK, 8 months ago

Yeah I realized that right after I commented, whoops

CantSt0pPoppin, 8 months ago

Big or small the work is noted, respected and apricated!

Scottmc, 8 months ago

Apricoted* FTFY

Zealousideal_Fox900, 8 months ago

I’ll be sleeping then luckily

Ryan213, 8 months ago

Seriously, guys, who doesn’t know CEST = Certainly Eastern Standard Time?!

Good luck!

bappity, 8 months ago

imagine not being in CEST time 🤮

obinice, 8 months ago

The only true time is GMT, all hail the ball

SheeEttin, 8 months ago

I think you mean UTC

Hubi, 8 months ago

In CEST time

No thanks

Brekky, 8 months ago

It’s a family affair… 🎵🎶

Finite, 8 months ago

Good ole central eastern southern time

PropaGandalf, 8 months ago

Saarland time

cheese_greater, 8 months ago

If I haven’t seen it, its new to me…