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  • @[email protected]
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    12 days ago

    That’s one thing I really like about lemmy.ml compared to some other instances, it’s always kept up to date. I’d host my own for myself but then it’s just another thing I’m responsible for and I’d rather not.

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      21 day ago

      The point of this post was to show that other large instances like lemmy.zip and dbzer0 updated the day of the release

  • @[email protected]
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    574 days ago

    It would be more useful to see metrics weighted per active user it’s trivial to update a server if it’s just for yourself, and likewise it’s easy to let it lag a few versions behind.

    What’s more relevant is the version number the large instances are running

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      4 days ago

      You can filter https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy by monthly active users.

      • lemmy.ml, hexbear and Lemmy dbzer0 are the only ones in the top 10 to run 0.19.8
      • discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.zip and sopuli.xyz, infosec.pub are in the top 20 and run 0.19.8 as well

      Note: 0.19.6 and 0.19.7 had an issue with pictures thumbnails, which is why quite a few instances kept running 0.19.5

      The elephant in the room is obviously LW which hosts around a third of the monthly active users but still run 0.19.3

      A month ago someone asked about this on [email protected], for people interested: https://lemmy.world/post/22173840

      Edit: added hexbear, discuss.tchncs.de and infosec.pub which just updated

      • @MrKaplanA
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        104 days ago

        we’ll try to get the post out the coming week, at this time we’re roughly looking at updating late January.

      • Alphane Moon
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        Total MAUs are so low. You really need solid double digit YoY growth (20-30% YoY) to have a strong trajectory in the medium term.

          • Alphane Moon
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            43 days ago

            That’s not really good a thing.

          • mesamune
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            23 days ago

            User count seems to be going up according to fedidb. At least in the number of federated users.

            • Blaze (he/him)OP
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              53 days ago

              It the number of active users stays the same, that could just mean that

              • people are changing instances
              • some instances shut down
              • some farmbots were open
              • mesamune
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                My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

                So while total users go up, the global federation is staying around the same. There’s quite a few servers that don’t want to be connected to everyone else.

                • hendrik
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                  22 days ago

                  I’m not seeing that trend. There are people who don’t want to federate. But they usually choose different software. Like Flarum or Discourse instead of Lemmy. And I think the statistics pages pull the user numbers directly from the instances(?) so a more defederated instance might show up in the statistics anyways.

                • @GamingChairModel
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                  33 days ago

                  My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

                  Or admins are just finding it not worth bothering with administering their own server and turning them off.

  • OpenStars
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    53 days ago

    Sadly, I still don’t see pictures being displayed on lemmy.cafe - perhaps that problem was unrelated, or the upgrade process isn’t entirely finished yet.

  • BlueÆther
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    94 days ago

    just did the jump fro. .5 to .8 today (for all of my 2 active users)

  • Skelectus
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    94 days ago

    Heh, I upgraded from 0.19.5 to 0.19.8 today just to see this.

  • @Valmond
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    94 days ago

    So when is it safe to upgrade, and from/to which version(s)?

    • @[email protected]
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      234 days ago

      I’ve become a fan of staying one version behind for a month or two, unless there’s a security issue that is involved in which case I’ll patch.

      I like it when someone who isn’t me finds out the catastrophic breaking issues and has to do the cleanup, and I’ll wait for the fixed version. :P

      • fmstrat
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        23 days ago

        Me too. This is also fueled by the fact that there are no admin tools for announcing releases, and you can’t set notifications for any new message in a community, and the releases are announced in a community.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 days ago

          Head to the lemmy github and subscribe to the releases email and you’ll get one when a new version is out.

          (And, unlike SOME projects I’m subbed to, they don’t do anything that generates a ton of spam, so it really is just one-email-per-release.)

      • Blaze (he/him)OP
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        4 days ago

        People who were there for 0.19.4 remember 😅

        But this one seems quite stable, it is a fix for 0.19.7, so hopefully no bug

        • @Valmond
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          44 days ago

          Ya, my whole server was in a bad mood after 19.4.

          I’m on 19.5 which one should I go with (I mean if 19.6 had problems there is maybe a 19.6.1 right?)?

            • @Valmond
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              23 days ago

              So you’d recommend the 19.7 as a bugfree stable version?

              • Blaze (he/him)OP
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                13 days ago

                0.19.8 is the bugfix for 0.19.7. You can wait a few days to see if 0.19.8 has bugs

                • @Valmond
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                  13 days ago

                  Yes that’s the theory 😊 but I heard icons or something doesn’t work well on 19.7…

                  Do they do backports?

  • kratoz29
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    54 days ago

    I don’t even know in which version is my instance (Lemm.ee) I’d like that mobile clients showed up this value more easily (maybe they do but I am dumb, I use Summit, Voyager, Boost and the defunct Sync).

    • @[email protected]
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      33 days ago

      Oh shit I haven’t seen anything from hilariouschaos in forever even tho I sort by new and new comments all the time.

      I thought the instance died. Good to see y’all still here

      • Alice
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        23 days ago

        I’ll have to federate our communities again maybe. Ty for heads up! Good to see you to