Ik zit midden in een verhuis naar een nieuw kantoorgebouw voor het werk en ben omringd door dozen en rommel. Tegen vrijdag moeten we eruit zijn dus het is even rushen! Fijne dag iedereen!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6097110

Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We are slowly getting closer to the 0.19 release, although there is still a lot of work left. Client developers should read this post with information about breaking changes to update their projects.

Edit: You can test the latest 0.19 code on voyager.lemmy.ml, or by installing 0.19.0-beta.8 on your server. Be sure to report any bugs on Github.

@nutomic has closed over 100 issues, most of them duplicates, invalid or already resolved ones. He also made numerous pull requests to fix minor bugs and implement small enhancements. This includes a bug

Hello Lemmyverse!

First of all we want to say THANK YOU to both @[email protected] and @[email protected] for making this happen. The addition of tags, censures and hesitations following Rikudou's GUI being included to Fediseer offically has done a lot to bring this tool to the next level. As we said before, on Lemmy World we now implemented this tool in our flow on how to handle spam- or other types of abusive instances. The system also had his first test-run this week when there was a spam-wave of accounts from different instances and we were able to fend those off by temporarely adding the instances to our hesitations list. Once the admins of those instances were contacted and tightened up security a bit they were removed from our hesitation list and re-federated.

dbzer0.com was protected during that time because they followed Lemmy World's hesitations and therefor their communities also remained spam-f

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3365629

The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it's opensource and free, currently working in android and windows.

It's in homologation now and anyone can test, any feedbacks are welcome as always.

If you find any bugs please report

Github Source

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We added an extra UI for our users. Photon by Xylight is an interface with a sleek, modern look and has all the bells and whistles you would need. Moderator tools included! You can access the UI from https://photon.lemmy.world.

Visit Photon's project page on github or get in touch with the developer in the [email protected] community. If you want to use photon on other instances you can do so from https://phtn.app.

Update: @Xylight has set up a donation link so if you like photon as much as I do, show him some love! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xylight

We've launced a public discord server at https://discord.gg/lemmyworld

The reason for why we choose discord is because it was easier to moderate and manage than other options. Besides we also had a discord-bot guru by the name of Rooki who created a neat bot that allowed us to connect/verify discord users to their Lemmy World account.

So if you are a moderator and you are looking for some extra hands to moderate your community, or if you need to contact anyone from the LW team, this is the most efficient way to do it!

Come have a look!

We just added Alexandrite to the server, it's an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to https://a.lemmy.world and have a look!

He continues to update it constantly, you can follow the development on his github page or in his community. If you like what you see and want to support him, why not buy him a coffee? :)

For those who don't have Lemmy World as their home instance and want to use Alexandrite, either ask your instance admins to add it or go to https://alexandrite.app!

Edit: I should probably have mentioned that Alexandrite is meant for desktop!

The lemmy.world instance was just updated to version 0.18.2. The login issues that were being reported (for example, here) are now resolved.

For release notes: https://lemmy.world/post/1339018

Edit for those who still have issues logging in:

• When using a browser: clear cookies and cache
• When using an app: remove your lemmy.world account and add it again.

Noticeable improvements here on our home instance at Lemmy.world!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1061471

Another day, another update.

More troubleshooting was done today. What did we do:

• Yesterday evening @phiresky@[email protected] did some SQL troubleshooting with some of the lemmy.world admins. After that, phiresky submitted some PRs to github.
• @[email protected] created a docker image containing 3PR's: Disable retry queue, Get follower Inbox Fix, Admin Index Fix
• We started using this image, and saw a big drop in CPU usage and disk load.
• We saw thousands of errors per minute in the nginx log for old clients trying to access the websockets (which were removed in 0.18), so we added a return 404 in nginx conf for /api/v3/ws.
• We updat

As this community seems to be unmoderated, @[email protected] contacted me that he wanted to become a moderator here 👏👏👏

Almightysnoo if you could just reply something here I will add you!

Now that a lot of 3rd party apps for reddit have shut down there have been loads of new users joining the various Lemmy instances. So who got here today and what has been your experience so far?

I'm here to help should you have any questions about Lemmy, lemmy.world or life in general (I can not really recommend that last one).

Anyway, welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay 😁

EDIT: I created seperated threads for this not too long ago but I think it's useful to post them again.

• Some things might still be confusing to people, I read a comment below about someone not knowing how to browse content from different instances for example. I really suggest you read this post by lemmy.world admin @ruud which does a wonderful job to explain a lot of it.
• If you're wondering what 3rd party apps there are available, this thread seems to list them all!

And why is it samurai?

Since we have quite a few new users, not everyone might be familiar with how Lemmy and the instances work. So I'm gonna link @[email protected]'s excellent guide to Lemmy here also.

If you have any questions you can always post them here or you can post them in the lemmy.world !support community.

Two quick-tips:

• if you want to tag a user, start by typing an @ and the first letters of the name and you will be presented with a drop-down menu to select users.
• if you want to link a community, start with an ! and the first lketters of the community name and you can choose the community name from a drop-down list.

These 2 features don't work on all mobile apps (yet).

I just found Liftoff! and I have to say I like it so far. It still has some issues but I see the devs are on it so for now this is the one for me.

But that might change once Sync For Lemmy comes out :)

I actually just registered it because it was available but I have my hands full modding /c/drumandbass, /c/jungle and the general lemmy world support community @ /c/support.

So if anyone wants to run this one properly. Let me know.