Sorry for those
It's not your fault :) We know you admins are working really hard to keep the server as stable as possible.
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- Add controversial ranking
- Change logic for determining comment default language
- Add infinite scroll user option
Neat. I hope the comment language logic change means the default won't be "Undetermined" anymore.
I'm sure the attacks are just as annoying for you guys as they are to us, if not more. Appreciate the update.
Edit: Loving the endless scroll for the front page! I've been eagerly awaiting that. Such a small change, but such a big impact.
Release notes for 0.18.3 can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md
Thanks, added to the post
Thanks, will put this in the post
Fwiw, it can be helpful to call out the date for such changes. Preferably in YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).
While it's helpful to link to an off-site timezone converter tool (thanks for that, btw), "today" can be a different date, depending on where in the world you are. For example, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Really liking the transparency with the community over how the server is doing.
Great work.
Great! Thanks for keeping things up to date and running!
Minor suggestion: write your time zones like UTC+2 and not CEST. I'm pretty sure most people outside Europe don't know what the time zone CEST is. Yes, you provided a link that helpfully converts the time to the users' local time zone, but sometimes it's nicer to be able to know something without having to click into a link.
OK, updating the post
Wow, you actually changed it! I was kind of shocked when I came back to my feed seeing UTC+2 in the title. Thanks! :D
it would be nice if Lemmy had support for formatting Unix timestamps in whatever timezone whoever is looking at it is in, like discord
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This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%.
Is it me or is the 80% figure just insane? Are there any benchmarks to see how fast this has become versus say Lemmy 0.18.2 on a very large instance?
Is it me or is the 80% figure just insane?
Not really, you'd be surprised how often systems are bloated all because of a single option, character, etc. Most developers don't start optimizing until much later in the software's lifecycle. Often enough, it is easily overlooked. That's why code reviews are needed often with fresh pair of eyes.
Just to set the expectations, reducing database size or CPU usage does not necessarily mean it is faster but it does mean there's more free capacity on the servers to handle more users at the same performance.
More importantly; they may help reduce costs on the smaller indie instances that doesn't need to buy larger server instances.
Hopefully, we'll continue to see more of these optimizations.
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Funnily enough, this is the feature that can speed up the performance by doing less calls:
The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.
Looks like the upgrade is done and was a quick and easy success, thank you Devs!
How do you turn on endless scrolling? I'm still seeing page numbers
Number 1 thing I miss from reddit w/ RES. π«
Infinite scroll and word filtering. If I see one more post about "AI", Musk, Twitter, or fake superconductors, I might have to get off the computer for 10 whole minutes.
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Thank you for the heads up!!
2pm EST for us silly Freedum Unit folks.
EDT actually, not EST.
Smooth! Curious about the new DB size
Down from 12GB to 1.8GB....
Wow, thats awesome for the backups and scalability!!
Me too. Creating a db dump now..
Why are these announcements the only place I am finding out the Lemmy has an update? I figured there would be more top level discussions about it on Lemmy. Maybe I am just not following the correct communities.
If announcements of Lemmy releases are what you're after, [email protected] is a place for you. But in broader picture, subsequent updates are usually just not that big of a deal.
Each server admin decides how to publish announcements, some have a mastodon account, some have a separate website, some might post on a different Lemmy server, like [email protected], someone would likely post up there after the fact if the server is down for a while without apparent explanation.
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Awesome! Itβs great to see thing become snappier and better since I joined Lemmy.
Reddit would almost never update unless it was a pants on fire situation or they would force feed features that no one wanted or even was tested properly.
A big thank you to everyone involved, FROM those taking the time to submit bug descriptions in a reproducible manner and those making feature requests or those simply upvoting and pointing out the most needed patch/updates TO simultaneously amateur, newly minted coders and veteran developpers pushing small and big patches to fix anything from typos, reformatting old code, cleaning almost unnoticeable UI object, transition less performing backend modules or secure/harden of all these moving parts.
I am glad to witness and be a part of the perpetual progress of the fediverse.
Thanks as usual for the transparency, yβall.
Thanks to you and all the dev team behind this β€ππ»ββοΈ
Will it change the behaviour of sorting by hot? seeing post from years ago is funny
Yes, the 0.18.3 changelog has Fixing hot_ranks and scores to append a published sort as one of the items.
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Maybe Iβm missing it, but I donβt see the option for infinite scroll anywhere. How do I add that?
Thanks for all the fine work, dudes
Thank yuuu
Good to see for Lemmy.
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