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Hello world,

we will be performing an update to Lemmy 0.19.11 in an hour.

We are planning for around 15 minutes of downtime today at 21:30-21:45 UTC.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-05-03T21%3A30%3A00.000Z

As mentioned in our April update, we had already backported most of the Lemmy-UI changes for 0.19.11, but we were still missing most of the backend changes.

This update will bring us the remaining changes listed in the release notes, as well as some additional changes not yet released:

• user registrations are now processed in a DB transaction, which prevents some errors we've occasionally seen in the past where registrations rarely resulted in an inconsistent user creation state (#5480)
• new posts in NSFW communities are now always marked NSFW ([#5310](https://github.com/LemmyNet/le

We will be updating to the latest Lemmy version very shortly. Release notes can be found here:

https://lemmy.ml/post/28296989

Downtime is expected to be approximately 15 minutes.

Looking to pick up one of these to use in some decks. If you have a spare please let me know if there's something specific you're looking for in a trade.

Trade completed, thanks @[email protected]!

Hello,

we will be updating pict-rs to the latest version in about 2 hours.

We expect a short downtime of 1-2 minutes during the planned migration window, as there are no major database changes involved.

Most users won't be affected by this, as the majority of our media is cached and served by Cloudflare. This should primarily only affect thumbnail generation and uploads of new media while the service is down.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-28T22%3A00%3A00.000Z

The update has been completed successfully.

We just successfully upgraded to the latest Lemmy version, 0.9.10, probably the last before the v1 release.

This addresses some of the PM spam that everyone has been getting. Now when that user is banned and we remove content it also removes the PMS. So hopefully you won't see them anymore!

Over the next couple days will be planning for our migration to our new server as our current server's contract has ended. I expect the down time to last for about an hour, if not shorter. You'll be able to follow updates for the migration by our status page at https://status.reddthat.com/

Normally this update would be a week in advance and more nicely formatted that turns out the contract ends on the 25th and I don't want to get charged for another month at a higher rate when I just purchased the new server.

See you on the other side,

Tiff

EDIT:

22 Mar 2025 02:42: I'm going to start the migration in 5 mins (@ 3:00)

22 Mar 2025 03:01: that was the fastest migration I've ever done.

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:

• Lemmy v0.19.4 Release
• Lemmy v0.19.5 Release
• Lemmy v0.19.6 Release
• Lemmy v0.19.7 Release
• Lemmy v0.19.8 Release
• [Lemmy v0.19.9 Release](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-02-10_

I haven't updated it for months, thinking it would make sense to follow Lemmy.world's update cycle, but they haven’t updated for so long and we're running into federation issues. So I'll be updating to the latest Lemmy version (0.19.9).

I believe the update process will take about 1-2 hours.

Also, what do you think about Lemmy NSFW's speed/performance? You can express your opinion in the comments or with the poll. We can make improvements if necessary.

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaLlmLg3

Update: Done. Please comment here if you encounter any issues. Email issues are fixed too.

Hello,

while preparation our upcoming Lemmy update we're also be updating to a newer database version, which will provide additional performance benefits and functionality.

We are planning for around 10 minutes of downtime for the database update between 19:00-19:30 UTC on 22nd of February. This is not yet the planned Lemmy update, we will be announcing that separately when we are ready.

edit: You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-02-22T19%3A00%3A00.000Z

edit 2: The database upgrade has been completed successfully.

i have created a short questionnaire, regarding how GNU/Linux users secure their system. if you are somewhat knowledgeful on this topic and willing to share, i would appreciate if you would fill out my questionnaire

okay, so, my research is finished. here are the results:

The "other" distributions include: NixOS (8x), Gentoo (4x), Slackware (1x), Void Linux (1x) or a combination of multiple distributions

Leave a comment of which game you want, I’ll PM you the key if you’re the only one and if there are multiple I’ll roll some dice and leave it up to fate sometime.

I’ll PM keys out later tonight/tomorrow.

Here’s the games I have extra keys for:

- [Gog] The Outer Worlds

- [Gog] Tomb Raider Underworld

- [GoG] Overcooked 2

- [GoG] Scorn

- [GoG] Monster Train

- [GoG] The Gunk

- [Steam] The Ascent

- [Steam] Remnant

- [Steam] Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

- [Steam] Wasteland 3

Merry Christmas.

Edit: I've given out most of the keys here, I'll check back tomorrow morning to see if anyone would like the remaining two.

Edit of the Edit: Dice have been rolled and the fates have decided. Merry Christmas!

Correct answer: 2011. Congrats to DavidDoesLemmy for getting it! If anybody's curious about the unredacted map, I've posted it here.

I blurred out the issuance date for obvious reasons, but can anybody determine the approximate date from the map design and routes?

Found it in the info book for the hotel I'm currently staying at and thought it might make a good game!

I'm in the process of migrating the pict-rs database to Postgres. Pict-rs has to be offline during this process, so images here will appear to be broken for a bit. You also won't be able to upload any images for the duration of this migration.

Estimated time is about 20-30 minutes.

I put the penny there for scale! Looking at it in closeup like this I can see a lot of mistakes I made, but that just means the next one will be even better!

Edit: Upgrade went off without much of a hitch! Some little tasks left to do but we are now running 0.19.3. Seems like a lot of the federation issues have been solved by this too.

You will have to re-login and 2FA has been reset.

This update is scheduled to take place this weekend. No specific day or time because I am infamously bad at following those. I will try to minimize impact by keeping downtime to lower-traffic periods.

Ideally, there will be no downtime, but if there is it is likely to only last an hour maximum. During this time I will add an "under maintenance" page so you can understand what we are up to.

Feel free to join our Matrix space for more information and ongoing updates! My apologies for how long this took - I was in the middle of a big move and a new job.

Additionally, there may be small periods of increased latency or pictures not loading as I perform maintenance on both the backend database and pictrs server in preparation for this upgrade.

A setting to display Upvote/downvote sum for posts instead of upvote/downvotes

Has been done for comments, please add this for posts.

COMPLETED: Thanks to hjiangsu on Github https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1077

Hey everyone! Were pushing through the update to 0.19 now that 0.19.1 is out that fixes the issues with it (outbound federation breaking + show read posts not working)

Said in the previous meta post it would be after christmas but due to something that got noticed about 0.18 (not going to specify what since we and a bunch of other instances are still on it) were pushing it through now

Major Changes in 0.19

• Code block support in lemmy-ui (the website) (contributed by programming.dev)
• Activity metrics now includes voters (contributed by programming.dev) (this is how our instance was doing it but now all instances do)
• Reports are now resolved automatically when a post is marked as deleted
• 2FA has been reworked to prevent people getting locked out
• Users can now block instances
• Theres a new scaled sort that can be used (hot sort but takes into account community active users so it boosts low activity communities)
• You can now remote follow instances by browsing on another site

To display the sum of the post and comment upvote and downvote. If a post has 3 likes and 5 dislikes, it will display the number -2 on the post. If a comment has 5 likes and 3 dislikes, it will display 2 on the comment.

I WANT TO BE CLEAR. I AM NOT AVOCATING FOR REMOVING OR REPLACING THE LIKE AND DISLIKE NUMBER DISPLAY. I LIKE THAT THUNDER TELLS YOU HOW MANY LIKES A POST AND COMMENT HAS AND HOW MANY DISLIKES A POST AND COMMENT HAS.

COMPLETED: Thanks to hjiangsu on Github https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1077

We're currently in the process of migrating our pict-rs service (the thing responsible for storing media/images/uploads etc) to the new infrastructure.

This involves an additional step of moving our existing file-based storage to object storage, so this process will take a little time.

New images/uploads may not work properly during this migration, however existing images should continue to load. We expect this migration to take about an hour.

[EDIT]

Migration has completed.

685,271 files / 153.38 GB were migrated. Copying to object storage took about 1.5 hours. Starting service back up on new server and debugging took another 30 minutes.

Timeline:

• Migration started at 2023-10-01 22:43 UTC.
• [+1h32m] Objects finished uploading to object storage at 2023-10-02T00:15 UTC.
• [+2h06m] Migration was completed at 2023-10-02 00:46 UTC.

Update: if you're seeing this text, then we've completed the migration :) 🎉

TL;DR: We are downgrading the server.

Currently, the instance has a monthly cost of approximately $200, and we can barely cover this expense with donations. But more importantly, we think that the current server specs are too much for the needs.

We are the 3rd instance with the most users and one of the most stable instances with 99.55% uptime, but still more than half of the server components are not used.

Therefore, we will slowly downgrade the server to use donations more optimally. By the way, thank you to everyone who supporting us 🙏

• Old specs: 16 core, 48 ram for 160$
• New specs: 12 core, 32 ram for 125$

The migration will start in 12PM UTC, you can check from your own timezone from here: https://notime.zone/NdyvH8JtJkJmZ

Instance will be available with a few downtimes, but posts/comments after 12PM will be deleted. Please follow this post...

Lemmy 0.18.4 has been released. You can see the official release announcement here. This one's a small one so should go smoothly. As usual, we'll update at 04:00 UTC tonight.

Edit: Completed successfully as expected. Unfortunately we did have a significant downtime just before the update due to the serve running out of memory. This was partially an odd coincidence and partly my fault. I had noticed that we were getting very near being out of memory, but expected the server would hold out until we rebooted during the maintenance window tonight. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Lemmy does gradually eat memory over time and requires periodic restarts, but the frequency seems rather variable. I never had restart the server for the entire time we were running on 0.18.2, while 0.18.3 needed a restart after just a handful of days of operation. Most significantly, this incident revealed that some of my monitoring tool