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Lemmy.world upgraded to 0.19.3 - expect a large increase in reported monthly active users in communities counters, as votes now count as activity (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12525192

[Update - March 3rd 2024 , 21:14 CET]

The update seems to have worked well. The database migration took some time, but after that it looks everything works as far as we tested. Let us know what you think! And if you like our work, check the donations links in the sidebar ;-)

(As you might notice, the new comments are shown YELLOW, that's not a bug, it's apparently a new feature in Lemmy...)

Hey everyone,

We wanted to announce that we will be attempting to upgrade Lemmy.World to version 0.19.3 on Sunday. The update will start at 2024-03-03 1900 UTC and should hopefully take no more than 2 hours. In the event there are issues, we will roll back to 0.18.5. In the event of a roll back, any data created by users will be lost, so we'll try our best to avoid this!

Hopefully downtime should be minimal <3

During the upgrade, please feel free to make yourself at home on our Matrix and Discord chat rooms.

Lemmy.World Pub

Matrix

Please follow Lemmy.World (@LemmyWorld@mastodon.world) - Mastodon for updates.

As usual, status can be tracked by visiting https://dash.lemmy.world and https://status.lemmy.world

Thanks for your patience in waiting for us. Stability is king for us!

-LW Tech Group

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 53 points 4 months ago

Yaaaay

Are there any big instances still on the old versions then?

Also if anyone has issues, try logging out and back in. It was required when we moved, and not all apps indicate that you need to do that.

It's because 0.19 changed some authentication thing. It won't always be necessary

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 31 points 4 months ago

Only ones left on the 0.18 versions are beehaw and blahaj

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 6 points 4 months ago

Blahaj has plans to update before Voyager stops supporting 0.18. I don't remember the exact date, but it's sometime in March.

[-] Mellow12@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Can’t upvote today, and my account seems to be labeled as a bot.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Go to https://lemmy.world/settings and turn off "Bot account".

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 4 months ago

You show the bot icon to me, do you have your account configured as bot?

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Please click the squares with traffic lights :P

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 points 4 months ago

Why would the upgrade equate to more monthly active users?

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 72 points 4 months ago

It's an increase in reported monthly users, as now activity like voting is also considered, not just posts/comments.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 46 points 4 months ago

Version 0.19 counts votes as active users.

Previous version only counted comments and posts

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 11 points 4 months ago

Oh thank you for explaining

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Finally, no more weird &amp or whatever it was

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

You can compare

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

We reached 49k monthly active users, nice increase on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

My voyager login stopped working on both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. I had guessed that was from the upgrade. I had to find and re-enter my passwords, slight PITA. I hope that won't become a regular thing.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

That's usually the case for upgrades like this. They only happen every few months, so you should be fine

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

As you might notice, the new comments are shown YELLOW, that’s not a bug, it’s apparently a new feature in Lemmy…

I made the feature request to add incremental reading , but the method they use seem like non of the methods i suggested (I think it highlights all comments after X minutes) and I think that is a way that is useful to no one, If the instance owners of lemmy.world think it is not good maybe they could provide feedback on the issue, or at least request an option to disable it, the owners seem like they are in a good position to collect feedback.