Welcome to the latest version of Lemmy!

  • If you’re having trouble logging in, clear your cookies.
  • If the bottom of the page tells you “BE: 0.18.5” then you need to shift-refresh your page (or clear browser cache).
  • If your app doesn’t work anymore, try to sign out and sign back in.
  • If it really doesn’t work, it’s probably because Lemmy 0.19 introduces many big changes with how things work. Apps still being maintained by their developer should work. Apps that have not been updated in the last couple of months most likely will not work.
  • If you’re using an alternate web frontent (a.lemmy.nz, t.lemmy.nz, p.lemmy.nz, voyager.lemmy.nz) then you will most likely have to clear your cache, or at the very least log out and back in.

There’s a post about this release by the developers here.

Also see the blog post about the original 0.19.0 release, which is where the major changes are.

Some key things:

  • There’s a new scaled sort that helps posts from small communities be seen in your feed
  • Users can now block entire instances
  • Two factor authentication should no longer lock you out of your account (no recovery codes, though?)
  • You can now export your user data (community follows, blocklists, profile settings) and import into another server as a way of migrating accounts.
  • “active user” stats shown on the home page will now count users that vote as active. Previously a user needed to post or comment.

Let me know if you see any issues!

  • spider@lemmy.nz
    2·
    10 months ago

    Well, there’s the one you cited, with the deleted parent / child comments; the other is upvotes / downvotes not displaying consistently across instances.

    Both are known, persistent bugs.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, there are many known bugs! Lemmy is version 0.19 because it’s not finished. Eventually most bugs will be gone and there will be a version 1.0, but that’s a while away. It was a small, niche platform before the reddit saga! They were slowly developing things, then suddenly had to spend their time putting out fires and making deep changes with unknown consequences just to keep the instances up with all the new people joining!

      Luckily that brought more help, so things are picking up pace.

      • spider@lemmy.nz
        2·
        10 months ago

        I was quite surprised Lemmy handled the massive influx of Reddit users as well as it did!

        • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
          2·
          10 months ago

          Man those early days were hard as a server admin! Things breaking, emergency updates to solve some security, database, or federation issue, then all the things that broke as a result.

          Which reminds me, using ampersands broke after that emergency fix (after a lemmy.world admin had their account hacked through a custom emoji exploit). I wonder if it’s fixed? Test &

          Edit: Oh looks like it’s fixed! We might be able to post URLs with & in them once again!

          • spider@lemmy.nz
            2·
            10 months ago

            Oh, that was a pain in the ass; it drove me nuts when I posted a music video from the band Y&T – had to use “Y and T” to make it readable.