• nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I’m surprised that there are still instances out there running 0.18.2-rc2 or 0.17.0. Those versions are full of bugs and miss so many features.

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      I scrolled to the bottom, saw there was 1 instance still running 0.16.6 lol, I clicked on it and saw it’s actually still active, there are recent posts there. Amazing.

      Edit: all from 1 user lol no upvotes, might even be a bot.

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    6 months ago

    Just updated :) The broken “feature in local” function made me paranoid and I’m glad it fixed now.

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    5 months ago

    0.19.5 has passed 0.19.4 now, with 86 vs 85

    I’m surprised 0.18.4 has more instances than 0.18.5, considering 0.18.5 was the simplest update ever with just a small hotfix for federating moderation actions (which is a really important bugfix) and it didn’t have any changes to the database or configuration or dependencies

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      5 months ago

      Having a look, the only instance with more than 250 monthly active users on 18.4 is Beehaw. They decided to not update after their disagreement with the Lemmy devs.

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        5 months ago

        They refuse to upgrade and then complain that mod tools are insufficient (which have improved a lot in the meantime). You really can’t make this up.

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    6 months ago

    WordPress has automatic updates for core, plugins and themes. I’ve never had any problems with it, running a very basic WordPress site. Would something like that be possible for Lemmy?

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      I doubt it tbh. A static wordpress site is infinitely less complex than something that constantly needs to take in and distribute content from/to thousands of endpoints with potentially many different api versions on the other side.

      Im not that deep into activitypub stuff but from my understanding, automatic updates are not really a good idea in this case.

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      6 months ago

      Yes, I could easily configure our Podman containers to auto-update, but given how there have been significant breaking bugs in Lemmy releases before, I think it’s better to not automate it.

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        6 months ago

        And I appreciate your choice (considering a good number of communities I enjoy are on your instance).

        Personally I think anything prod level should be manual updates only anyway.

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    6 months ago

    What’s the easiest way to pop up a server? I tried yunohost but the lemmy code is very old now.

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      “Easy” might just be relevant to your experience. You can follow along with the Ansible instructions, or go your own way with Docker and Docker Compose.

      Both methods require a bit of work to get spun up, but it’s not too bad.

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      6 months ago

      I have mine hosted on elest.io. As easy as it gets. Just choose your software enter some initial domain setup and deploy. Can’t beat it for 18 bucks a month.