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Update: The maintenance has been completed!

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!

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[–] baconeater@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There were a lot of known issues with rc1, I have been fixing a couple of them myself. All known blockers have been fixed now!

[–] baconeater@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Excellent. Thanks as always for all your hard work!

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[–] tymon@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Holy smokes, this is a wild UX and UI improvement. Great work!

[–] cat_slave99@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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.

[–] HeavyRust@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think that error message should be clarified ^^

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

100KB. I thought it was 300 KB. Thank you. It'll be late tomorrow before I have access to that machine again. I'll upload it if there's still an issue

[–] HeavyRust@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I just noticed your username. Haha.

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[–] Jenga@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Great! I'm glad I'll be able to use Jerboa again (hopefully).

[–] baconeater@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Splendid! I hope this fixes the main issues of some posts not appearing, and the frontpage flooding with updates periodically?

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] baconeater@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

As well as being able to be accessed by Jerboa again.

[–] UnknownUniverse@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

Besides that, this site is amazing!

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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

Seen the same thing. There is an open issue on GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3366

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Antas@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I read somewhere that the image size limit for lemm.ee is 100kb.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Well, that would certainly explain it. 100KB is pretty tiny though. It'd be nice to have it try to resize client side to get under the limit, too (I always wondered why more image uploaders don't do client side resizing).

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemmyonline.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can’t see this post signed into lemm.ee.

Are you by any chance hiding read posts?

This also seems to apply to own posts (since you obviously read them, duh). Confused me once.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemmyonline.com 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks, had to check. But yeah I have "Show Read Posts" checked.

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] jackattackson@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Working great! And Jerboa too.

@sunaurus@lemm.ee Thank you so much for all of the hard work you're putting in here!

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago
[–] Odo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you for upgrading! 0.17.4 felt really unusable with all the random posts coming in all the time due to webhooks.

And now I can use Jerboa!

[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Whoa, it looks so different now! Gonna take me a few minutes to get used to it but... GLORIOUS USAGE OF HORIZONTAL SCREEN SPACE!

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Ahh...so much better whitespace usage. Earlier, it felt like I was using a mobile app.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] V4uban@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Congratulations!

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yay!

My first annoyance, when I hit tab it goes to language, rather than post. No more Tab + Space or Tab + Enter to post my comment.

But at the same time, it's soooooo nice not having the first page filled from the top with posts that don't fill the sorting mode I've set!

[–] Odo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can save a comment with "Ctrl + Enter" now (which is what I always tried before and didn't work).

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] ing@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

D...did the font size get smaller on desktop? Oh god, I feel old.

[–] Odo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Another weird thing that's happening is that the background of every new comment seems to be styled with the highlight color, I am also seeing that behavior on the voyager test instance running 0.18.1-rc4, see here: https://voyager.lemmy.ml/?dataType=Comment&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active

First two comments have the highlighted style, the old ones don't.

(By "new" I mean recent, the highlighted color doesn't seem to change after "reading" it or replying to it.)

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

Anyone else seeing the same problem?

[–] alectrocute@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

When trying to make a report, the backend sends the response:

{
    "error": "couldnt_create_report"
}

Looks like a backend issue.

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have received several "test reports" of this particular comment by the way 😃

Will need to look into why it's not working reliably

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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!

[–] Thurgo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome.

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.

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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!

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