Proud to be on the official test server π₯²
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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haha, we appreciate the patience. We're not a massive company with teams of people, just a couple of FOSS programmers.
This is why this instance is so well. Thank you for all the hard work in reliberating the web!
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I there a changelog available?
There will be when we do the release. Its a big one.
I'm excited!
Cheers for all of the work you Devs have put in....
Thx!
βUpcomingβ? Are we talking hours, days, or weeks?
The release? π€ not more than a week, as long as we don't run into major issues.
Thank you for your service o7
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Let's gooo!! Lemmy 0.19 ftw!
I'm excited for the scaling sort.
that has been workinf well on my instance π
Cheering you on from over here at lemm.ee! Thanks for making this place better for everyone!
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Ah crap I got another account there, I guess Iβm cheering from both lol
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This is good to hear! Have you considered releasing more often with smaller sets of changes, for future releases? It seems like this will be quite the upgrade.
Yep, we'd def prefer to do smaller releases, and we'll try to make them more frequent and smaller in the future. The main reason this one was so delayed, is because of the large number of breaking changes, esp. w/ respect to authentication.
Great idea. Hope all is fairly smooth!
Thank you so much for your work on this instance.
How best to donate to help support?
Thanks! Here's our donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate . Liberapay is preferred if possible.
Can somebody explain what this scaling sort thing is to me? I've heard it a lot, but I don't know exactly what it does.
It's like hot sort, but gives a boost to inactive communities.
scaling sort thing? do you have a link describing what you mean?
One feature I'm hearing about it this algorithm called scaling sort and apparently it's supposed to boost smaller community posts up more. I was just curious as to how it works internally.
oh interesting. I wasn't aware of that. thanks!
I had a little bit of a look at it a while ago.
From memory itβs not really sophisticated. I think it divides a postβs score by the number of users its community has. So itβs not so different from upvotes / user.
It may use monthly active users rather than absolute, Iβm not sure.
It's like the other sort options, except it prioritizes communities with fewer subs, so that you'll see content from smaller communities more often.
The update has broken a bunch of things for me..
On my desktop using firefox, I cannot get images to display & everything is slow to load. On my android phone, boost was showing me a ton of stuff that I do not follow & wasn't showing me any info about my profile (profile tab would not load or something). Boost eventually logged me out & I have been unable to log back in....
Images were temporarily broken due to authentication problems, but thats fixed now. If you encounter problems in apps, please them to the developers so they can fix them.
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I was just wondering: Instead of testing these potentially disruptive changes on the main website, why wouldn't you make some testing instances where people can try everything out, like voyager, enterprise, and ds9 were back in the day?
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Good luck!! If we donβt hear any exploding noises than I guess that means it is going ok?
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I lumme some lemmy with that lemony fresh scent
I got randomly signed out this morning, maybe this has something to do with that.
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