Lemmy.World Announcements @lemmy.world lwadmin @lemmy.world 21h ago

Lemmy.World update to Lemmy 0.19.9 on 16th of March, 16:00 UTC

Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:

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URL Blocking, at last. Now I can block all those AI shit websites on my communities :D

And being able to comment on locked post, what a nice QoL enhancement :D
Someone ELI5 why Lemmy is or isn't ready for a Reddit Exodus.

Personally, I want it to be. Reddit censorship/shadowbans/deletes is outta control. Imo the problem lemmy has is on Desktop, since on Android there are some great apps like Boost that give it a Reddit-like end user experience, wheras Desktop experience in a browser is No equivalent of RES, or classic reddit. Opening images is very janky. I like RESs 'view images buttons, that untwirls all view image buttons. Using lemmy on desktop is a Chore. I can handle it. But I imagine its very much a bad taste and an impediment to a greater influx of average users.

Its about time we left reddit behind and make Desktop lemmy more welcoming. The times we're in requires a trustable platform. Reddit ain't it.
- in my opinion it's the login experience. selecting an instance is too confusing for the average user.
- https://old.lemmy.world/ has a "show images" feature
I can't wait! We'll finally get to do a real world test for the parallel sending features!! And if all goes well I'll get to save 5 Euro a month!

Thanks LW
- Final bullet point here says otherwise: https://lemmy.world/post/23471887
- Is that a young dr farnsworth?
  
  That's the guy who works at the cryogenics facility that Fry was frozen at for 1000 years.
  
  Dr. Farnsworth used to have red hair, the same as his ancestor Fry and his younger clone Cubert.
- A picture you can hear, holy. Vividly, lol
  
  Love your punctuation. I can hear it in Chris Walken's voice
- Get you ass back in the Futurama instance before I paint your back porch red
This is the update that'll break sync, right?

Sad times, but I guess I'm gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow
- No it won't. That's the next major release, this is just LW catching up.
  
  partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.
  
  iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won't be entirely broken.
  
  Oh phew
- I used sync for reddit for years, but I kinda hope sync dies. But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads. Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued. One of the top posts on the sync community when I checked was to not report PMs because it will actually report a random comment with the same ID, which is just a massive fuck up given the amount of spam PMs.
  
  they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.
  
  Exactly. Not even a discount. I think it was even more expensive than the reddit version.
  
  I just checked. It's $20 to remove ads. Wow.
  I also checked to see how much it cost for the reddit version. I paid $4 to remove ads and $5 for the "pro" version. That's more than I've paid for any app. Now they want another $20 to remove ads on an app they neglect and ignore their customers? Disgusting.
  
  Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued.
  
  Not just continued, but has gotten worse. Additionally, it's even more important to update more frequently because of the more frequent changes. It was also never fully functional for Lemmy. For example, spoilers have never worked.
  
  To add to all that, they don't even have the decency to pop in for a quick comment or two just to help people feel better.
  
  But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.
  
  Is that even legal?
- Give Voyager a try as well!!
  
  +1 for Voyager. It feels like a spiritual successor to Apollo.
- Try Summit, it's slick!
  
  Try Summit, it’s slick!
  
  Yeah, yet another proprietary app is really the place to go.
  
  Thunder works great, it FOSS, and under active development.
- Former Sync user of around 5 years. Recently switched to summit and it was a pretty easy transition. I've made plenty of rants about how the Dev just abandons paying customers and I finally had enough once I knew that it actually messes things up if you try to report some things.
  
  I can't make any other app look and feel as nice as Sync, honestly. I was trying out Thunder just now, and maybe I could get used to it but the user avatars don't work for some reason. I don't disagree about ljdawson though and I wish it was different.
- BOOST BOOST BOOST
- Take a look at summit too!
  
  Summit is my main app for Lemmy.
- Lemmy Connect :)
  
  Accidentally replied to the wrong comment. Moved.
- Finally the people that got baited into adware like sync will be forced to find something better.
I am looking way forward to posting images with alt text! They brought that in for 0.19.4 and it's the one thing that I've been really feeling the lack of on here since the start.
A whole hour of nice and quiet on the Lemmyverse? 😜

❤️❤️❤️
- What are you going to do with yourself with not being able to entertain us with your memes?
  
  Well in my reddit days, I would open the app, see it was still down and angrily close it again
  
  But with the far superior decentralized Lemmy-verse I just have to switch to an alt on a different instance lol
  
  So now the game plan will be open app, waste a minute waiting for the timeout on my .world account and remember why and then switch to my .cafe account LMAO
Good luck admins! And thanks for doing it during the Carabao cup final so I have something else to occupy my time while lemmy.world is down :)
Hopefully this will improve the sync/federation process between LW and other instances, especially those further away geographically :)
It's a bit of a shame we don't see any significant new features in this release. Piefed seems to be developing at a much faster pace compared to Lemmy, which is a bit embarrassing tbh.
- considering that we're coming from 0.19.3, this does still introduce quite a few bigger changes for LW.
- piefed.dbzer0.com you cowards!
Exciting!
Good luck!

Looking forward to the webUI supporting defined thumbnails per post.
I'm not a dev/programmer, but does the version number starting with a zero suggest that Lemmy is still in a pre-release state? Like alpha or beta or something? If so, what needs to happen before it gets to version 1.0? Just curious! From my layperson's perspective, Lemmy runs great and I have no complaints about it, so I'm not sure what v.1.0 would look like. Or maybe it's all internal stuff that I'll never notice anyway?
- MAME (Arcade and various consoles/computers emulator) is at version 0.275 and it's been developed since 1996. 😀
  
  Wow 😆
- You are right.
  
  After 0.19.9 is said to be "1.0"
  
  Oh cool! Thank you 👍
Wow. Finally.
Nice!
Great stuff!

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