Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:

Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we’re still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I directly noticed that the background color got brighter and looked in this community to see whether a post like this got published. I mean, congrats on the new update I guess but I liked the darker dark mode more 😔

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        That’s cool, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. I have all on in my settings:

        But the numbers don’t show:

        • Syrc@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 hours ago

          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on your screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

            • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Don’t feel bad. I had that exact same back and forth with myself.

              I was also half asleep, high, and pooping, and I still figured it out on my own…so maybe feel a LITTLE bit bad.

              • angrystego@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 hour ago

                Congratulations.

                I find the new spot for the numbers a bit wierd, because they end up in different places according to the lenght of the username and other info like instance name.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I might be a bit confused, but I just went to my settings to see, and both “show upvotes” and “show downvotes” were ticked already, by default. I refreshed the page (Ctr+Shift+R), and it’s still the same.

        • Syrc@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 hours ago

          (Copying from my other comment)

          Apparently they’re next to the timestamp now (you can see the “↑ 4” on that screenshot, and if you sort this post’s comments by Best, the Futurama meme shows as “↑ 87 ↓ 1”)

          • Dicska@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Aaaah, I get it now, thanks! I did see the “↑ 4” bits everywhere, but it turns out that every single comment I have looked at had 0 downvotes, and then instead of going ”↓ 0”, it just simply doesn’t display downvotes. I thought I was going mad.

            I liked the previous implementation, though. To me it seemed more clear.

        • cm0002@lemmy.world
          6·
          6 hours ago

          Do you think you guys could do a post on the underlying hardware/infrastructure of .world? I would love to see what it takes to run the largest Lemmy instance lmao

          • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            5 hours ago

            in short form, we have HAproxy running on a hetzner cloud VM for Lemmy/Lemmy-UI, another HAproxy VM for the alt UIs, a VM for the alt UIs.

            for the main LW box, which runs lemmy containers, lemmy-ui, pictrs and a database each for lemmy and pictrs, we have a physical box with an EPYC 7502P 32 core CPU, 128GB memory and NVMe SSDs.

            • cm0002@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Huh interesting thanks! I’m pleasantly surprised at how little the “cloud” is part of it.

              Thought for sure it would be some flavor of cloud with a whole bunch of VMs or something like Kubernetes for scalability lol

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Finally, the ability to view (and delete!) your own uploads.

    FYI, the sorting on the uploads tab is broken. Obviously I don’t expect sorting by “top” or “controversial” or whatever to work, but sorting by “old” doesn’t, either. It’s always sorted by newest first. But at least it’s something. (I know for sure I have images uploaded that were not used in posts.)

    • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      we’re still investigating some performance issues due to one of the lemmy processes hammering our CPU :/

  • ByteMe@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Hey, do you think you can add the running version of the instance on the column that is on the right side of the lemmy.world website?

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 hours ago

    URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

    And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

      Huh? How? I don’t see anything about this in the six linked changelogs.

  • fuck_you_spez@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn’t ready for a Reddit Exodus.

    Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

    Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we’re in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain’t it.

  • Tiff@reddthat.com
    6·
    15 hours ago

    I can’t wait! We’ll finally get to do a real world test for the parallel sending features!! And if all goes well I’ll get to save 5 Euro a month!

    Thanks LW