In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.

We’re doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.

Some of the following will happen during the process:

  • Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
  • Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
  • If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.

If all goes well, we’ll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.

I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.

    • YⓄ乙 English
      2•1 year ago

      Thats so cool. I think this update will be the death of reddit

    • authEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Can we see a list of instances that are blocked?

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      If I remember correctly it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts which could already be archived by using apps.

      A shame but better than nothing I guess.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬English
        1•1 year ago

        it doesn’t block comments from instance users, only posts

        Which is enough for me.

        which could already be archived by using apps

        And that’s the thing here: You don’t need any apps anymore because it is implemented serverside. I am also not a fan of apps in general (they don’t fit my “workflow”).