I don't believe it is.
There weren't any network related changes from 0.19.6 to 0.19.7 and we haven't seen this behavior with any of the 0.19.6 instances yet.
The requests are visible with details (domain, path, headers) in Cloudflare, but they're not showing on our proxy server logs at all.
at this point we don't believe that this will allow anyone to act as someone else, but we are aware of the issue. it's still unclear what is actually causing this, as the pages are not supposed to be cacheable when there is authentication attached.
are you sure about the username? i can't even find a user remotely matching that name.
some of the issues introduced in 0.19.4 or 0.19.5 include
No software is ever free of bugs, especially not one starting with a zero version number.
nobody is talking about it being free of bugs, but we try to go for versions that at least don't have any major bugs.
ther must be no avoidable delay in the deletion request of user data
is there a definition for "no avoidable delay" as interpreted by courts? your definition and mine clearly don't overlap here.
That said, there is no communication of news and roadmaps. Maybe on proprietary Discord but not here.
there is no additional information about roadmaps on discord.
https://lemmy.world/post/20234434 is one of the places this was discussed previously.
we currently don't have any announcements about this. afaik we've only been doing these for when we actually plan to do something with an actual estimated timeline, but i agree that it would be good to have this information more accessible by having a post in our announcement community rather than just comments on posts in other communities.
your calculations seem to be off.
0.19.7 is only 4 versions ahead of 0.19.3, not 8.
there were significant issues with 0.19.4, which resulted in 0.19.5. there are still some issues that are important for us, although they may not be as important for smaller instances, that were an issue in 0.19.5.
0.19.6 was released 10 days ago and already had a followup release 0.19.7 to fix some new issues that were introduced in 0.19.6. there are still pending issues like https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5208, so i imagine it might not take too long for a 0.19.8 release.
we're aiming to provide a stable experience and also try to avoid regressions resulting in reducing moderator capabilities.
most of the issues we saw reported for versions above 0.19.3 however have been fixed in the newer versions since, so there aren't as many issues remaining that would prevent an upgrade to 0.19.8 or a 0.19.7 with extra patches, but at this time 0.19.7 hasn't seen widespread use yet, which tends to be what brings up more bug reports if there are new issues.
LW is currently still violating privacy laws because users cannot delete uploaded media.
this statement is ridiculous. while you cannot currently delete them yourself, this is in no way violating any laws. if people want to have their uploaded media deleted they can just raise a support ticket or send a message to @[email protected] and we'll take care of it.
if there are any laws stating that this is required to be possible as self-service i'd love to see references for that, because for all i know this is not the case.
no, there are currently no options to customize the viewing experience, such as custom css.
as others already mentioned, forcing light mode on people is generally not well received anyway.
trending communities are going away in the next release iirc due to the current implementation not really being useful.
as long as you're logged in the option should always be shown.
we do however recommend messaging @[email protected] instead of specific admins: https://lemmy.world/post/17422981
I've checked our server logs and it seems to have been an issue with a timeout.
This might be something that is fixed once we update to a newer Lemmy version that performs metadata processing in the background instead of while receiving the post.
lemmy does not track post views, especially not via federation.
you could try bringing it up at [email protected] but i wouldn't count on this becoming a feature.
technically, posts can be marked as viewed if this is not disabled by the user, which would be the closest thing possible, but there is also no time decay on that. this information is limited to users on the local instance, so this wouldn't be that representative unless used on one of the larger instances.
there is no defederation from "the piracy instance". one or more communities have been removed from being accessible through lemmy.world due to piracy content, but the instance is not defederated. this means that other communities on that instance are still accessible and all users on that instance can still freely interact with lemmy.world communities and users.
this comment section is not a place to rant about other instances