Please, before posting, we’ve seen a lot of these post saying X instance is down right now, or “is X instance down?”. The answer is probably, but it’s probably because Lemmy v0.19 dropped and it includes some downtime, upwards of an hour for all the migrations to finish.

Please, hold off on asking/posting for an hour or so. Your sysadmins are waiting for it to come back online.

    • Ech
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      2211 months ago

      I pitty the poor, volunteer admins facing clueless users dealing with downtime. “You said it’d only be an hour! WHAT’S GOING ON!?!?”

      • Björn Tantau
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        1511 months ago

        It’s even worse for me. I’m a poor clueless volunteer admin and the only user on my instance.

      • @[email protected]
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        And it’s done! No errors! YESSSSS 🥳!

        Next, log in… instance not found… 😭😭😭

  • Rentlar
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    Jerboa v54 or later works on v17 Lemmy for me. You may need to clear data, logout and login for it to work. For other apps the process is likely similar.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Liftoff stopped working for Lemm.ee for me but not Lemmy.world so it must have been upgrade related. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it so I’m just switching to Connect, ha.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        I’ve heard reports from our users that liftoff stopped working when we upgraded on Sunday also. It apparently doesn’t work with the new version and they said the dev ran off to start a family.

        • slazer2au
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          211 months ago

          He had twins. Lemmy apps are passion projects. Something has to give.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    I manage my own tiny insurance and it took long enough that I thought I broke something. I must need to turn up logging because the back end was completely silent except for “0.19.0” and I only knew something was happening because the database was busy.

    • ScrubblesOP
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      Same happened to me, I learned on other releases that no news is good news usually in updates, if you see things busy it’s probably doing stuff - but this was a nail biter for sure. Very glad I skipped all the RCs.

    • @nimmoA
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      111 months ago

      I chose to take down my production instance of lemmyz do a cp -r of it, update the docker compose file to specify the new version numbers for Lemmy and lemmy-ui plus change the port that the stack exposes and do a docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d on that stack to check to see if it could all work. Thankfully it did, so I updated the production compose file and tada! I’m on 19.0 safely

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Did it in a similar way. I used:

        sudo cp -rp

        to keep permissions also. Worked like a charm.

        • @nimmoA
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          111 months ago

          Ah, there’s a flag I’ve never used before. That’s been noted and I’ll do the same thing myself in the future to minimise risk of breakage in the future.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Are you using disk storage or object storage for pict-rs? I need a better way to test updates but I’m trying to avoid having to duplicate my storage or risk breaking prod by pointing to my live object storage from a second instance.

        • @nimmoA
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          I’m just using some of the spare HDD space to store it all. If there was more than one user on my instance I’d probably need to find a better method, but for me, for now, it works well enough.

    • slazer2au
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      311 months ago

      Liftoff won’t work with 0.19.

      The Dev hasn’t patched it to work with the breaking changes of 0.19

      Being a new parent of twins is time consuming and I wish him the best.

      • Victor
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        211 months ago

        Oof. Being a parent of two non-twins is time consuming enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Hijacking this to add: most Lemmy apps don’t have any new feature yet. The “scaled” sorting (=weighted subscribed communities) will probably make it’s way into the first apps around New Years, I’d guess.