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.
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.