We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.
Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.
Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.
We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.
It’s a bit of a lose lose situation tbh because if we don’t upgrade then the first experience those new people are gonna have of Lemmy is an unusable All feed and a broken Jerboa.
My other account is on lemm.ee and the admin there contributes a lot of fixes to the software (plus has been working with Ruud to figure out our federation issues). He upgraded us a couple days ago and it’s been amazingly stable given that it was only a day after the rc1 disaster.
Ultimately I trust that he and Ruud know what they’re doing, but sometimes with an untestable situation like the size of .world you just have to pull the trigger and hope it works.
Liftoff is working great. Jerboa should be held off on for now because it can’t handle different server versions. Different server versions WILL always be an issue in a federated environment.
Yeah Liftoff is my fave too but it has the opposite problem and doesn’t work with instances that are on a too-new version of Lemmy 😅
Update: FIXED!
It’s funny because a Jerboa fork posted a few days ago in their community can handle different versions like a charm. The oficial app should make that a priority.