Welcome to 0.18.1! Hopefully you'll notice some much needed UI tweaks as well as several performance optimizations.
I am still going through things and making sure everything looks good, but so far, I have not detected any major issues (fingers crossed). If you do have any problems, please comment below!
Original annoucenemnt below:
0.18.1 is coming!
As I mentioned in a previous post, this upgrade will require brief downtime. I will try to keep it as short as possible, but I can't guarantee an exact window, so if you really can't wait for lemm.ee to be back online, then the best advice I can give is to check back every 5 minutes or so.
As with any update, please be prepared for unexpected side-effects. If we find any major issues, then we can always roll back to good old 0.17.4. If we just find some minor issues, then most likely the overall experience will still be better on 0.18.1, so in that case we stay on 0.18.1 and try to get any potential issues fixed in 0.18.2. In either case, if you see anything weird after the upgrade, please report in the comments!
Thank you for the upgrade! Site is working and looking great on desktop, but can't seem to see any posts on ios (tried safari and edge). Attempted to login on mobile but it just brings me back to the login page, also tried deleting cookies and cache but didn't help.
Thanks for the quick update. I'm afraid the site is still blank on ios for me after clearing site data and reloading. No problem, will use the desktop version in the meantime!
I hope this fixes the main issues of some posts not appearing, and the frontpage flooding with updates periodically?
I hope so as well 😃 (the frontpage flooding with posts should be gone for sure, as for posts not appearing, we'll know the full extent of the improvement once most of the network upgrades to 0.18.1)
Thank you for being so diligent about upgrading! It looks good everywhere except on Firefox nightly on Windows 11. It looks good on FF Nightly on Android, looks good on Jerboa, Connect & liftoff, looks good on Edge and Chrome on Windows 11, but on Firefox nightly it doesn't have any content and I can't log in or out without restarting the browser. I would upload a screenshot, but I get a JSON error when I try that.
You can use an external image hosting site like Imgur to upload the screenshot. The JSON error happens because lemm.ee has a 100 KB size limit for image uploads.
I have noticed a couple of things with error responses, like when you upload a profile picture above the size limit, it will just throw a JSON error, and I had to search through the error the console threw to figure out why. It's the same when you mess up your email/username on login
Is it just "above the size limit"? I tried uploading an image in a comment in two different formats (first a PNG of about 1 MB and second a JPG of about 150 kb). Both failed with this error.
I eventually gave up and used an external host. As an aside, wow, imgur seems to have purposefully broke mobile desktop. It used to be possible to upload on mobile by using the desktop site, but now it errors out. It's hard to assume good faith when imgur has made so many bad decisions lately.
Moving the collapse/expand button to the left of the username is just so much better. I know there are a bunch of other fixes and changes, but this simple thing was really grating.
I'm responding from lemmyonline.com because I can't see this post signed into lemm.ee. Anyway the presentation is fantastic now, looks beautiful. Problem is I'm missing posts. A couple things are fixed that were broke by 0.18.0 so that's great to see. If it weren't for the missing posts, this release would be a winner. It's a release candidate so no surprise there's issues, but it's looking like the official 0.18.1 release is going to be golden.
BTW, I logged out, cleared my browser cache, and logged back in to check no issues due to stale data.
Can you double check that you have all languages selected under your profile? Other users have reported that they were missing some languages, and until they selected the rest, posts weren't showing up.
I responded at the top from lemm.ee, I'm only able to see the message partially after logging out and logging back in. As soon as I refresh, the message is gone.
Seems suspiciously functional so far! I say suspiciously because my other account was witness to the .world attempt yesterday lol, but I can already see a lot of stuff has been worked out since then. Crazy fast turnaround, well done to everyone involved!
Ah funky, the standard email shortcut. Good to know, thanks!
Edit: another weird thing it does though: when you post a reply to a comment it goes to that comment new directly, rather than the comment you were replying to or your new comment + context.
For 2 minutes before this comment you are reading, I started to get really slow response on loading postings and communities. Then an actual error came up:
Refreshing a few times and it then loaded the post I was viewing. PostgreSQL most likely too busy.
I seem to be unable to create reports since the upgrade yesterday. Have so far tried hard refresh, relogging, clearing cache / cookies, and trying it from the mobile browser as well as desktop.
Something weird that I'm seeing, on the communities page, the "Meta (lemm.ee)" community is listed as having 68 posts, but when I visit the actual community, I only see three posts, is that expected?
Hmm doesn't seem to be doing that for me. Do you have "undetermined" selected under your language settings (as well as any actual languages you speak)? I've seen some people missing posts based on having accidentally unselected that.
That was my first thought too, I have "browser default" selected (which should be English), so I don't think that's it.
Edit: Okay, I got things mixed up, "browser default" is a setting for the interface language. On my language settings I had 0 languages selected (I don't know how it got changed? Or if that's the default setting.) I selected Undetermined and English, but I'm still only seeing three posts (the 3 most recent, I think).
There's no announcement for 0.18.1 yet, but we skipped 0.18, so everything from that release is new for us as well! You can check the notes for 0.18 here: https://lemm.ee/post/261997
On your posting, https://lemm.ee/post/485546 the current comment count on the top of the posting is inflated. From a remote instance, I edited my message, and I think the bug still exists where the count on the postings is incremented even though there are not new messages and only edits. See GitHub issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3334
If I log out and then back in I see this message. If I go back and refresh, it's gone. You asked me before to check languages in my settings, but that box has never worked right for me. If I highlight a language and hit the x nothing happens. How is that box supposed to work.
using apps like Mlem or Memmy works fine, but the browser just shows everything empty and the UI is not responding to anything.
Switching the browser language to English like suggested in the github issue solves this, but using my standard browser language(german in my case) doesn't work.
Edit: Well a workaround was to switch my broser language to english, so that everything was working, then change the language in the lemm.ee settings from "browser default" to german(note that it was "browser default the entire time and this site was always english with 0.17.4 despite my browser being german).
Now it's working with my browser set to german, and it even keeps the language german when I change it back to "browser default". But when I set it to english, it's no longer working. Then I have to change my browser language to english again.
Hey, this is strange and I wasn't immediately able to reproduce it, but I will investigate further over the weekend. I'm glad you managed to work around it for now!
I've tried to reproduce the steps aswell and it's kinda tricky because some of the combinations that didn't work are now just working and I don't know why.
A way to reproduce it on my end that seems to be pretty reliable so far:
Lemmy language set to browser default and browser set to english, everything works. (I can also set browser default, english, german, doesn't matter).
Set browser language to german while Lemmy is set to english and restart browser (I'm using chrome btw)
Still everything is working.
Now switching back to browser default has it also working as long as I stay on the site. I can refresh the feed by clicking on the lemmy logo, view posts, go back via the lemmy logo etc.
But once I refresh the entire site through chrome, it stops working and I have to change the browser language to english again to set it back up.
(It even showed my username at the top right as "Tankon" instead of "Taxxor" for one refresh, the next refresh had the login and sign up buttons, then it was "Taxxor" again on the next^^)
The shorter way would be to have Lemmy set to browser default while having the browser set to english end then switch the browser to german.
But I thought the scenario above where I can still use the site after setting it to browser default as long as I don't do a full refresh might be of interest to see what the issue might be.
This might help some others. I had an odd issue where text and buttons were overlapping with images but clearing my cached data and relogging solved the problem.
Yep, it seems it's possible to get mismatched theme files into your browser cache under some conditions (I've noticed it when manually changing themes) - clearing the browser cache is the correct workaround for now!
Is there a way to choose to have the post previews show like previous rather than just the post title? Not sure if it’s a bug or a design choice. Hopefully it can be an option in settings.
When I save changes to my profile, my display name and description, it does not save. No error message when I press the Save button, no "saved" toast message either.
EDIT: Ok, I narrowed it down. If you put in too long of a Display Name, everything you changed gets lost and there is no failure toast message. I tried to set my Display Name to "RoundSparrow @ lemm.ee" and I had to shorten it for the save to work.
I was also having issues with saving my settings (I was only changing my languages) and it took like 3 or 4 tries for the changes to stick. It may not be related to your display name change
The darkly theme stopped formatting text correctly for me, all text was black on a black background and so unreadable. I’ve changed to darkly-compact (presumably a new feature?) and that seems to have solved it.
Possibly a silly question but have you done a hard refresh (ctrl-f5)? That fixed a lot of similar stuff for me. Currently on darkly with no apparent problems.
I have a login that I think you rejected or not yet approved from a week or so back. "RoundSparrow". And when I try to login on 0.18.1 on your server, I get no error message, it just comes back to the login form. I even tried a wrong password to see if it gave an error, and nothing.
I have a login that I think you rejected or not yet approved from a week or so back.
I have definitely not rejected you. I think the registration must have not gone through for some reason - you can see that there is no user at https://lemm.ee/u/RoundSparrow
(The CSS is messed up the post images overlap the post titles, which aren't visible against the dark bacground. That's darkly, darkly-red doesn't have the colour issue but images still overlap)
I think this is a browser caching issue.. Do Ctrl-Shift-R/Cmd-Shift-R or whatever your browser's refresh-without-using-the-cache key stroke is and it resolved for me.