We’ve upgraded lemmy.world to 0.18.1-rc.1 and rolled back that upgrade because of issues.

(If you had posted anything in those 10 minutes between upgrade and rollback, that post is gone. Sorry!)

The main issue we saw is that users can’t login anymore. Existing sessions still worked, but new logins failed (from macos, ios and android. From linux and windows it worked)

Also new account creation didn’t work.

I’ll create an issue for the devs and retry once it’s fixed.

Edit Contacted the devs, they tell me to try again with lemmy-ui at version 0.18.0. Will try again, brace for some downtime!

Edit 2 So we upgraded again, and it seemed to work nicely! But then it slowed down so much it was unuseable. There were many locks in the database. People reported many JSON errors. Sorry, we won’t be on 0.18.1 any time soon I’m afraid…

  • axzxc1236@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reasons I can think of:

    1. The official Android client for lemmy, Jerboa, only supports 0.18 and later, unless users download older version from github and sideload manually.

    2. Sorting is broken pre 0.18, new posts keeps flowing in.

    3. Performance improvement by removing web socket from lemmy. (which fixes 2, which is why 1. happens)

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The official Android client for lemmy, Jerboa, only supports 0.18 and later, unless users download older version from github and sideload manually.

      Even that won’t work, because Jerboa initially tries to connect to lemmy.ml which is running 0.18, which older versions of Jerboa aren’t compatible with. The app just crashes instantly without giving you the opportunity to log in to your instance.

    • JdW@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Jerboa works fine with lemmy world, it just gives a warning and crashes on occasion. Not an issue to use it though.

      • flawedFraction@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        For me at least, I’m unable to change the community scope or sorting method. The only thing I can use Jerboa for is “local” and sorted by “active”. It isn’t totally unusable, but I would much rather be able to switch to subscribed and hot.

      • Vanon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        “crashes on occasion”

        Unfortunately, the occasion seems to be at least once every five minutes for me. thisisfine.jpg This is not fine and definitely a major issue. Especially as we get closer to July 1. After this news from lemmy.world, I will have to switch, until Sync arrives. Update: Liftoff is fantastic, give it a try!