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Lemmy.ml v0.19 upgrade issues and downtime. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml
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In anticipation of Lemmy's upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we're going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.

We're doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.

Some of the following will happen during the process:

  • Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
  • Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
  • If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.

If all goes well, we'll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.

I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.

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[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Controversial sort

this one sounds like an awful idea ngl

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it seems like the sort of thing that's purposely geared towards people finding the dumbest possible comments so they can start an argument with them

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it could be fun.

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are some topics where this sorting mechanism is the only one that will give you good comments, like asking for unpopular or controversial opinions. 1000 people will get upvoted because they post things that aren't unpopular at all, and the few comments that are actually worth discussing get just as many down as up votes.