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Hello,

while preparation our upcoming Lemmy update we're also be updating to a newer database version, which will provide additional performance benefits and functionality.

We are planning for around 10 minutes of downtime for the database update between 19:00-19:30 UTC on 22nd of February. This is not yet the planned Lemmy update, we will be announcing that separately when we are ready.

edit: You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-02-22T19%3A00%3A00.000Z

edit 2: The database upgrade has been completed successfully.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for letting me know Iโ€™ll be sure to hit F5 a few thousand times

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~40 minutesย from now~~

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I've got that covered, but feel free join in and help. #activeActiveHA

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Awesome thanks! Appreciate you all doing the update!

[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A friend of mine never uses UTC. What an idiot. Seriously, what a dumbass. Somone one should tell him what time that would be in EST. God, he's so dumb.

[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

a link has been added for your friend

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. What a stupid dork he is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hey, donโ€™t be so hard on him. His account is only 16 days old.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You shouldnโ€™t take advantage of her, itโ€™s not fair

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0ac5b341-1f9e-4b86-8238-f72c3beb7346.jpeg

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Is that a UTC minute or an EST minute?

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd be pleased if a time was also mentioned that relates to the local server time; and I don't even care which time zone. I can convert from all five zones way faster than loading a javascript-tainted URL, cursing, going back, reopening in a private window, enabling js, reloading, closing.

No worries though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

local server time is UTC.

time in UTC is included both in the title and the post itself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In the winter, we're -5. In the summer, we're -4. Winter and summer being defined as when the clocks change for daylight savings.

It's good to know even if you just have a link sometimes.

Edit: This is just from my memory. It could be more complicated than this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isnโ€™t it more like -4 for a couple of weeks in spring and autumn?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You know, I'll edit and make it clear that I don't know what I'm talking about. You might be right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

EST is UTC-5, so tell your friend that it'll be between 14:00-14:30 EST on the 22nd of February.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

My stupid idiot friend says thanks. What a real ding dong

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Came here to post this.

(And stop calling me Shirley)

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What will I do with my life during that downtime?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thatโ€™s what alt accounts on other instances are for. Fediverse, baby!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lka1988 1 points 1 day ago

I've got a few of those!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I need to come up with a creative username. But you are correct.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no idea what time that is and I figure I will probably be sleeping

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Are you a sleepy eepy zeppo?

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Just repeat to yourself, โ€œItโ€™s just a site. I should really just relax!โ€

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Best of luck on your restore-from-back-up test tomorrow! ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Delight your ears with a listen along on this deranged trip.

Friends, posters, lurkers... Lend me your upvotes. For lo, in a mere day, the doors of Lemmy shall be shuttered. Our memes cast into the abyss. Our shitposts left orphaned. Unsent. O wretched fate! O cruel, unfeeling cosmos! How shall we endure? Thirty minutes is no mere blip in the timeline of our bumbling digital existence. It is an ERA. An epoch of suffering! Civilizations rise and fall in such time! Legends are written, heroes are forged, and here I will sit, my hands trembling, no memes able to posted, no takes able to be unleashed, no silly little guys to upvote. What shall become of me? Shall I gaze into the empty abyss of my own thoughts? Speak to the people I live with?

No. That way lies madness. I shall be but a husk, a shattered remnant of who I once was, awaiting the sweet release of Lemmyโ€™s return. And yet, even in my darkest hour, I take solace in one thing: at least I do not have to spend these thirty minutes on startrek.website, that lawless den of fools, where moderation is a myth, the admins are as competent as a warp core made of wet paper, and every discussion devolves into a petty slap fight between people who somehow all deserve to lose. If the fabric of reality must be torn asunder for thirty minutes, let it be here, and not in that cursed wasteland.

Hold fast, my fellow posters. We shall weather this storm. We shall endure this trial. And when the servers rise again, like Kahless reborn, I shall return to these lands with memes twice as cursed, takes twice as deranged, and an unbroken will! Stronger. Funnier. Hornier. Steel your hearts. Prepare to refresh your pages. Let not the darkness take you for the MEMES SHALL RISE AGAIN.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Good luck with the update !

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

...also be updating to a newer database version, which will provide additional performance benefits and functionality.

Which functionalities are you interested in?

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

For me the faster VACUUM would be reason enough to migrate :-) But I think overall it's best to keep up-to-date and a few minutes downtime is worth it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

incremental backups might also be something worth looking into

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always thought it's just something you say, whenever upgrading to anything newer. Even if there are no additional benefits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

One benefit is that you have a tested upgrade path if you keep up with versions. If you donโ€™t and you make big jumps in version when you update, thereโ€™s a chance that youโ€™ll run into an untested situation that causes an issue.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about "read-only friday"? :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I would say it is rather opposite for a volunteer driven team. "Read only-Mo-Fr " because we have more time on weekends in general.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

sick one. Thank you for your efforts.