Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:


Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we’re still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

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        That’s cool, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I have all on in my settings:

        But the numbers don’t show:

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          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

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        I might be a bit confused, but I just went to my settings to see, and both “show upvotes” and “show downvotes” were ticked already, by default. I refreshed the page (Ctr+Shift+R), and it’s still the same.

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          (Copying from my other comment)

          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on that screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

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            Aaaah, I get it now, thanks! I did see the “↑ 4” bits everywhere, but it turns out that every single comment I have looked at had 0 downvotes, and then instead of going ”↓ 0”, it just simply doesn’t display downvotes. I thought I was going mad.

            I liked the previous implementation, though. To me it seemed more clear.

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          4 hours ago

          Do you think you guys could do a post on the underlying hardware/infrastructure of .world? I would love to see what it takes to run the largest Lemmy instance lmao

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            in short form, we have HAproxy running on a hetzner cloud VM for Lemmy/Lemmy-UI, another HAproxy VM for the alt UIs, a VM for the alt UIs.

            for the main LW box, which runs lemmy containers, lemmy-ui, pictrs and a database each for lemmy and pictrs, we have a physical box with an EPYC 7502P 32 core CPU, 128GB memory and NVMe SSDs.

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              Huh interesting thanks! I’m pleasantly surprised at how little the “cloud” is part of it.

              Thought for sure it would be some flavor of cloud with a whole bunch of VMs or something like Kubernetes for scalability lol

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    Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.

    FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don’t expect sorting by “top” or “controversial” or whatever to work, but sorting by “old” doesn’t, either. It’s always sorted by newest first. But at least it’s something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)

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    I tried making an image post from the app and the browser and both of them timeout every time I try to upload.

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      we’re still investigating some performance issues due to one of the lemmy processes hammering our CPU :/

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    Hey, do you think you can add the running version of the instance on the column that is on the right side of the lemmy.world website?

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    URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

    And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D

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      URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

      Huh? How? I don’t see anything about this in the six linked changelogs.

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    Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn’t ready for a Reddit Exodus.

    Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

    Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we’re in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain’t it.

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    I can’t wait! We’ll finally get to do a real world test for the parallel sending features!! And if all goes well I’ll get to save 5 Euro a month!

    Thanks LW

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    This is the update that’ll break sync, right?

    Sad times, but I guess I’m gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

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      No it won’t. That’s the next major release, this is just LW catching up.

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        partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.

        iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won’t be entirely broken.

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          I’m a sync user and haven’t had any issues, what breakage are you referring to?

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              Biggest problem for me is that posts no longer show as read. Makes it almost completely unusable. I switched to Voyager and canceled my premium Sync subscription.

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              Well damn. The comments for me are not so rarely even more important/interesting than the post itself…

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          For me Sync has been broken since long ago (proud Summit user now), my instance has always been updated faster than .world though, so I can’t really pinpoint since which version I started having issues with it.

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      I used sync for reddit for years, but I kinda hope sync dies. But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads. Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued. One of the top posts on the sync community when I checked was to not report PMs because it will actually report a random comment with the same ID, which is just a massive fuck up given the amount of spam PMs.

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        they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

        Exactly. Not even a discount. I think it was even more expensive than the reddit version.

        I just checked. It’s $20 to remove ads. Wow.
        I also checked to see how much it cost for the reddit version. I paid $4 to remove ads and $5 for the “pro” version. That’s more than I’ve paid for any app. Now they want another $20 to remove ads on an app they neglect and ignore their customers? Disgusting.

        Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued.

        Not just continued, but has gotten worse. Additionally, it’s even more important to update more frequently because of the more frequent changes. It was also never fully functional for Lemmy. For example, spoilers have never worked.

        To add to all that, they don’t even have the decency to pop in for a quick comment or two just to help people feel better.

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          Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone trying to value their work higher. Maybe just use a different app? Ironically I was a pro user on Reddit and have never been forced to upgrade on Lemmy as it has never shown me a single ad despite the fact that I would in heartbeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , I have never had issues with any Sync app and I’ve been a user since…I dunno 2013?

          I do agree that JDLawson has become more reclusive but he was never all that interactive with the community to be honest. I don’t see that updates or stability of the app has really been an issue. Any time I have had problems they have always been native to Lemmy.

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            Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone who just wants to express their frustration. Maybe go to another thread?

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        But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

        Is that even legal?

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      Former Sync user of around 5 years. Recently switched to summit and it was a pretty easy transition. I’ve made plenty of rants about how the Dev just abandons paying customers and I finally had enough once I knew that it actually messes things up if you try to report some things.

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        I can’t make any other app look and feel as nice as Sync, honestly. I was trying out Thunder just now, and maybe I could get used to it but the user avatars don’t work for some reason. I don’t disagree about ljdawson though and I wish it was different.

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          I’m trying out Thunder and like it for the most part, but I can’t seem to get messages to work

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        Try Summit, it’s slick!

        Yeah, yet another proprietary app is really the place to go.

        Thunder works great, it FOSS, and under active development.

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        You don’t need to understand the underlying OS best practices because the app dev is given full access to the device

        You also don’t need to understand the underlying OS to make false claims about how it works.

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            If I intended to insult you, I would have. But when you make an outrageous claim without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence, and I’m not in any shape to explain why your assertion that an app gets full access to your system on install is laughable. I’m also not in any shape to deal with thin skinned posters who see insults in everything, so good day.

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      What are you going to do with yourself with not being able to entertain us with your memes?

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        Well in my reddit days, I would open the app, see it was still down and angrily close it again

        But with the far superior decentralized Lemmy-verse I just have to switch to an alt on a different instance lol

        So now the game plan will be open app, waste a minute waiting for the timeout on my .world account and remember why and then switch to my .cafe account LMAO