Version 0.19.X Deployment
Hello world!
I'm sure many of you fine folks have been wondering why we have not upgraded to version 0.19.X yet.
The whole team here has been getting asked this question quite a bit, from both members of the community and other instance admins. We want everyone to know, YES, we will upgrade to version 0.19.
We do not have a hard date set for when we will be upgrading as of yet, as we have about 7 associated task items that go along with this upgrade for things we need to double-check and confirm there will be no breakage.
Another big reason why we have not upgraded is due to reports from other instance admins that the front-end GUI can have performance issues. While a large portion of folks access our site using apps on their phones, we would rather not degrade the user experience for the rest of everyone else.
Worst case in terms of UI slowness, we would ask everyone to use either Alexandrite () or Photon () to mitigate the potential performance issues.
One final point to mention to address the delay is that we usually wait 1-2 weeks after a new release before applying it to production. This was complicated by the fact that there were multiple releases right after each other, with each new release having issues we hoped would be patched in the NEXT version. A new version would come up, and we would have to evaluate the stability and performance of it, which would take about 2 weeks, and then ANOTHER version would come out, which we would need to test. This was further complicated by the fact this was during the holiday season.
| Version | Release Date |
|---|---|
| 0.19.0 | 2023-12-15 |
| 0.19.1 | 2023-12-20 |
| 0.19.2 | 2024-01-10 |
| 0.19.3 | 2024-01-24 |
For us, stability is paramount, as we care very much about keeping everyone happy here.
While we can appreciate the rapid release of patches on 0.19, I hope everyone can now understand the delay. If all goes well, we will set a release day in the next week or two, most likely on a Saturday around 1800 UTC.
-jelloeater85
So I suggested how you could do comms better, and also a sensible approach to defederation decisions, and that is your response.
Rather than thinking, "oh, is there some way we can do this better?", just get defensive and blame the person giving feedback.
It's human to err, but to refuse to learn, well that's quiet something... I had expected a more mature response.
Considering my original point was about how users on Lemmy were an after thought. Not worth factoring in to decision or consulting, you sure aren't really do a good job refuting it...
Lemmy world was the instance I originally joined when the whole exodus kicked off and others closed their doors. I was very grateful and had enormous good will for it. I never expected in the space of several months to have 180'd on it...
Yeah my response, was a bit harsh! I will forward your feedback to the rest of the admins.
It wasnt my choice to defederate, but defederation is a non destructive thing and federation could have been restored if there was a discussion from users with evidence that they improved themselves. We would have thought about refederating with them after 0.19, because then every user can decide themselves if they want to see them.
I appreciate you taking feedback on board, and I apologise if I was harsh about this and I didn't mean for this to be aimed at you individually. It was a general frustration with general decision making and communication. It's not the first time I've raised this and I care about Lemmy, it just gets frustrating when it feels the feedback is getting stonewalled.
I appreciate the position on consideration of refederation. it does make sense to consider it post 0.19.