Proud to be on the official test server π₯²
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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haha, we appreciate the patience. We're not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
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I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I'm excited!
βUpcomingβ? Are we talking hours, days, or weeks?
The release? π€ not more than a week, as long as we don't run into major issues.
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Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in....
Thx!
Thank you for your service o7
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Let's gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I'm excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance π
Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
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Ah crap I got another account there, I guess Iβm cheering from both lol
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This is good to hear! Have you considered releasing more often with smaller sets of changes, for future releases? It seems like this will be quite the upgrade.
Yep, we'd def prefer to do smaller releases, and we'll try to make them more frequent and smaller in the future. The main reason this one was so delayed, is because of the large number of breaking changes, esp. w/ respect to authentication.
Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!
Thank you so much for your work on this instance.
How best to donate to help support?
Thanks! Here's our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate . Liberapay is preferred if possible.
The update has broken a bunch of things for me..
On my desktop using firefox, I cannot get images to display & everything is slow to load. On my android phone, boost was showing me a ton of stuff that I do not follow & wasn't showing me any info about my profile (profile tab would not load or something). Boost eventually logged me out & I have been unable to log back in....
Images were temporarily broken due to authentication problems, but thats fixed now. If you encounter problems in apps, please them to the developers so they can fix them.
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Can somebody explain what this scaling sort thing is to me? I've heard it a lot, but I don't know exactly what it does.
It's like hot sort, but gives a boost to inactive communities.
It's like the other sort options, except it prioritizes communities with fewer subs, so that you'll see content from smaller communities more often.
Good luck!! If we donβt hear any exploding noises than I guess that means it is going ok?
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This is super exciting!
Is there an update on the state of the update?
Speedily trying to get things merged and more release candidates out... sry its taking longer than expected.
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Honestly, I have some problems with this update (and some things I'm super happy about too of course), I hope my feedback is seen so the problems can be made aware:
- I'm not a fan of new comments having yellow, the contrast is poor at least on darkly-compact and it just looks weird and out of place. I'd suggest maybe making them a slightly lighter or darker shade of the existing color to make them stand out, not an entirely different color.
- It seems the main page/posts pagination uses pageCursor instead of page number now, whereas profiles still use page number. Using pageCursor is an SEO downgrade and usability downgrade, it's a weird decision IMO if that was intentional and not a bug.
- I think I might have run into a bug, Lemmy no longer seems to save my upvotes or something. When I upvote some posts on the main page/posts list, even if I wait a few seconds, or 10 seconds or even 30 seconds, when I refresh my upvotes are gone. ~~This one seems fixed now?~~ Nevermind, it's broken again, very weird.
- With "Top Day" sorting, there used to be multiple pages of posts, now sometimes I don't even get a full page of posts: https://i.imgur.com/4LiZzJG.png (it looks like it's showing posts from only one community, I have it set to subscribed communities but I'm literally subscribed to like 50 different communities) but other times I get one full page of posts plus multiple other posts which is how it always behaved before 0.19. Since it seems to be inconsistent, I'm thinking that's a bug.
I would probably suggest on holding off on releasing 0.19 for now, it does seem like a really large release so it might be better to make sure it's fully polished and ready to go.
I'm super glad upvoting comments doesn't discard the comment you're writing, that's a huge improvement. I also see import/export settings, that's super awesome, I absolutely love features like this!
Thank you for your hard work, Lemmy is such a cool platform.
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I was just wondering: Instead of testing these potentially disruptive changes on the main website, why wouldn't you make some testing instances where people can try everything out, like voyager, enterprise, and ds9 were back in the day?
I donβt think this is a bad suggestion, but itβs worth noting that lemmy.ml is explicitly intended not to be the βmainβ Lemmy, or even a major one: What is lemmy.ml?
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How much longer will it be before I can finally log in and use boost or liftoff. Is there a timeline for a fix? Both have been broken since the update.
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