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Update The upgrade was done, DB migrations took around 5 minutes. We'll keep an eye out for (new) issues but for now it seems to be OK.

Original message We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 (Check what this isn in your timezone). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ""Edit"" I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer.

Release notes for 0.18.3 can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md

(This is unrelated to the downtimes we experienced lately, those are caused by attacks that we're still looking into mitigating. Sorry for those)

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[โ€“] NausetJF 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any idea who might be launching the ddos attacks?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Haters. Groups paid by Steve Huffman. Script kiddies. Any rich trust fund pissant with a couple hundo to spend on the dark web.

[โ€“] sab 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Groups paid by Steve Huffman

Any basis for this conspiracy theory?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not too much, just that it would be incredibly tempting of an option for a millionaire. Anonymously destroy your competition by paying some dark web site in Monero? Sure why not?

[โ€“] sab 3 points 1 year ago

If that were the case, I think he would have paid a bit more and make sure it would have stayed down. No competition was destroyed here.

I think it's Far more likely that it's just a bunch of scriptkiddies saying "when I press button, error page goes brrrrrrr".