238

[Announcement] TheDude has upgraded the server from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 RC (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

TheDude recently upgraded the server to the most recent version of Lemmy. You'll notice significant improvements to the user interface, and hopefully the functionality is also improved. There is no official changelog yet because this version is not yet finalized, but I'll link the GitHub releases page where it should eventually appear.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases

Edit: 0.18.1 is now fully released and we have upgraded to the final version. You can view the link above for the changelog.

top 40 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] biela@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago

CPU usage has dropped by about half so far, so this is looking great so far.

[-] Quills@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kbin federation seems to be fixed too now less gooo!!

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

Yeah dude holy shit if it's totally fixed that's going to be huge. Basically doubles the userbase

[-] Quills@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah that'd be so awesome!

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Isn't Kbin 20% the size of Lemmy?

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

In reality, probably yes. But AFAIK there is no way to accurately track their active users. You can compare total users, but then you can't accurately measure Lemmy, because most accounts here are bots or abandoned.

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Assuming their activity rate is similar to most Lemmy instances, you could estimate that about 25% of their 60k userbase is active, good for 15k MAUs, or just over 20% of Lemmy's 66k MAUs.

A long winded way of saying you are absolutely correct 😅

[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kbin federation appears to be working indeed if someone had subscribed to a community before the 0.18.0 update. Waiting to see if a community that no one had subscribed to on this instance syncs in.

Edit: it hasn't been pulled in overnight. Maybe it'll only pull their content in after a new post is made?

Edit 2: It pulled in, but I didn't see that it had because the current default is to hide all posts that you have already read. So confusing!

[-] Adi@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

the dude abides 🤘

[-] seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

I'm impressed with how much is being improved in such a short amount of time!

[-] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Loving the new interface. Seems like it fixed quite a few of the small issues I've had with the UI. Subscribing to a new community from the sidebar is fixed on desktop. Expanding an image, then voting on the post doesn't collapse the image anymore. Voting on posts and comments seems to be almost instant now (probably related to upgrade, but not 100% certain). The "Darkly-Compact" theme is amazing, much more like old.reddit. Haven't seen anything about whether or not @TheDude devoted more compute resources to the instance, but everything seems so, so much more snappy than a few days ago. Read that @db0 somehow tweaked the query parameters for the PG database, which helped reduce the server load (announcement link here). Maybe that would be worth looking into as well to optimize even further.

Edit: Looks like @phiresky has been contributing to Lemmy on GH, I wonder if that's what db0 meant. Though not seeing any commits directly related to DB queries.

[-] biela@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

No major changes to the instance, this upgrade really did a lot to optimize performance. We're still seeing some IO spikes here and there but overall performance is much better.

[-] dman87@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Darkly-Compact” theme is amazing

Yes! Thank you for pointing that out! I just swapped over and and feeling right at home. It's a much better use of horizontal space compared to the default theme.

[-] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

"Darkly-PureBlack" + OLED blacks:

[-] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Love the picture.

[-] loaf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Thanks, Dude!

[-] FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I wonder if that's why I woke up to 8 inbox replies from up to 3 days ago. 😄

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks, TheDude!

[-] Leer10@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Man this update already feels so much less jank <3

[-] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Great work!

[-] oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io 3 points 11 months ago

Good work Mr. Dude

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago

Do you also have that bug where old posts are hidden when you filter by hot or active?

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually, hot and active seem to be much improved. I'm seeing popular posts from up to 2 days ago, but also mixed in with newer content.

I wasn't using those filters at all on 0.18.0, but I'll give them a shot now. I'll update this comment if I have any issues

[-] carbon_based@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yes seems that hot and active just don't show old posts anymore. Inactive commmunities appeear "empty" now.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Hopefully this improves the lemmy.world federation somehow. Thanks for the update.

[-] Quills@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

I think the problem with .world is just that they're too overloaded, but i don't really know anything so yeah, don't take me for granted

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Is this why a community I subscribed to is multiple days out of date?

Is there a way to troubleshoot the problem? See if it's on our end or their end?

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm hoping the recent updates both instances have received will resolve it.

Also make sure you're not relying on active and hot feeds. Top>day, 12h, etc is critical.

[-] jack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The full release appears to be available now.

I haven't been seeing any updates from the mod team on the agora or on main for a couple of days now. Not sure if this is related or if I'm just seeing things.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, we upgraded to the full release last night. TheDude posted about it on the matrix chat but I'll update this post as well.

[-] jack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Solid, thanks for the update.

[-] jack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Just as a heads up, it looks like my total comment score was wiped around when the RC update went through. Not super worried about it, but wanted to pass that up the chain just in case.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I heard someone else mention that. Where do you even see your total comment score, I'm not actually sure.

[-] jack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

It's shown under the profile in WefWef and Connect. Looks like it's not available under jerboa. No idea for the web ui.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Ok I've only used Jerboa and the website. Oh well, I don't wanna know anyway, my head is already big enough 😅

[-] jack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Lol for real though, it's not the first thing I'd want to see in bold, large font at the top of the page when I visit a profile.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@TheDude i dont know if its because of the recent update but for some reason on community i cant create a post with images. i hope this is the right place to report instance problem please point me in the right direction if im incorrect, also thanks for making a good instance and all the work that goes into maintaining the instance.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I see that you were able to post images in earlier posts. As far as I know it still works the same way. Maybe try attaching the image to your reply here? Then I could post it on c/machinist if it's still not working for you.

Btw I think that community looks really cool even though I don't really understand what it's all about 😅. Thanks for being here

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I try to add an image I get instead of the image on pc I also get a JavaScript error ill add later to to post

Edit-- nevermind it works now on desktop go figure, Thanks

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok, glad you figured it out 👍

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

load more comments

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023

238 points (98.0% liked)

sh.itjust.works Main Community

7565 readers

1 users here now

Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

TheDude@sh.itjust.works

manifex@sh.itjust.works

biela@sh.itjust.works

imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works