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Lemmy v0.18.4 Release

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-08-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.4Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
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Avid Amoeba
lemmy.ca

Support development

I've subscribed monthly, if you can afford it, you should too!

There's no present danger of making the development team rich enough to dismantle the capitalist state. The funding is yet to reach normal subsistence level. You can see the sums collected in each of the platforms.

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mrmanager
lemmy.today

I updated https://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.

We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)

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isoreply
lemy.lol

Oopsie woopsie yo instance is down 🫤

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mrmanagerreply
lemmy.today

Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)

Fixed it now, thank you.

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isoreply
lemy.lol

You're welcome. May I suggest to redirecting http to https? Even default nginx conf doing that as I remember.

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mrmanagerreply
lemmy.today

Edit: It didnt do a redirect by default. :) Will fix that.

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isoreply
lemy.lol

I don't want to bother you more but I tried it on my phone, with a browser I never use, it shows nginx page 🤔 FYI

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mrmanagerreply
lemmy.today

You dont bother me, this is very interesting actually....

You still get this default nginx page?

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isoreply
lemy.lol

Yep. I tried with a web proxy too.

Is there a chance you forgot reloading nginx?

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A2PKXG
feddit.de

Feature request: an option to aggregate all comments of crossposted posts. It would save manually going through each crosspost

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glibg10b
lemmy.ml

Does anyone else have an issue where the browser back button causes Lemmy to go back twice?

In other words, if you click "next" at the bottom of your feed, open a post and press the back button, does it return to the original page?

Or, if you choose a sort, open a post and press the back button, does the sort get reverted?

It started happening to me in 0.18.3, but I don't want to file a report if I'm the only one experiencing this

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socsareply
lemmy.ml

Yes, this and the broken comment context has made browsing seriously painful

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glibg10breply
lemmy.ml

Oh, so It's not just me. I'll do what I can to find the cause

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MutilationWavereply
lemmy.ml

Still happens to me on chrome with the webpage. I'm using Sync almost exclusively now and it doesn't have this bug.

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1984reply
lemmy.today

I tried it and if I click next, I go to page 2. Then I open a post and click the back button on the browser. And then I'm back on page 2, as expected.

Also tried to switch sorting method and it remembers the sorting method when I go back from a post as expected.

I think probably you have some plugin that is interfering. Try with another browser or a clean browser profile.

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glibg10breply
lemmy.ml

I can reproduce it on Android in Firefox Nightly, but not in incognito mode (even while logged in). It happens in Chromium as well, including in incognito mode

In Firefox, I've tried disabling all add-ons and tracking protection and clearing cache and cookies, to no avail

I could test on other phones and operating systems, but I don't really want to spend more time on this. It's not that big of an issue for me

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1984reply
lemmy.today

Hmm. That's really weird. Hopefully someone else in this thread can test also so we get more info.

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teft
startrek.website

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

Thank Stallman. You guys rock!

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jochem
lemmy.ml

Thanks for the hard work. I've cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.

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[email protected]reply
kerala.party

thanks for the arm builds, I am currently using masquernya/lemmy-arm64.git for arm builds. How do you handle the lemmy-translations update in your build pipeline for lemmy-ui?

I do not see you doing the following, or did I miss something

# manual updates
cd lemmy-translations/;
git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;

also do you have to trigger the build manually when a new lemmy version is out ?

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raverreply
lemmy.rimkus.it

Hi, Thanks for the hints, and yes I have to trigger the pipeline by editing and commiting the Version information here

do I really need

cd lemmy-translations/;
git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;

even if I have

git submodule init
git submodule update

See here and here

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Nutomicreply
lemmy.ml

You can run git submodule update, then it will pull the same translations as specified in the lemmy repo. Or run git submodule update --remote, then it will pull the latest commit from lemmy-translations.

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raverreply
lemmy.rimkus.it

Thanks, so my pipeline should be fine in the sense that it uses the commit of the submodule, stored in the version tagged lemmy commit

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[email protected]reply
kerala.party

I just tested it, submodule init+update pulls the latest commit of submodules, this could be different from the commit used in the tagged release version

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raverreply
lemmy.rimkus.it

Thanks, I'll have a look at it, but if you're faster I'm happy about a PR :)

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thantik
lemmy.world

Could we get some more feature parity in the old.lemmy by chance? There's no ability to block users, and you should be able to block a group without going into it first. (Let's give you an example here. You don't wanna see horse porn. It shows up in /c/ALL. You have to... VISIT the horse porn group, in order to block it....)

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Dessalinesreply
lemmy.ml

That's developed by a third party so you'll have to ask them.

You can block users / communities in lemmy-ui by going to their profile.

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Echreply
lemm.ee

You can block users / communities in lemmy-ui by going to their profile.

I'm not the user you're responding to and don't use the ui they're talking about, but going to those profiles can be more upsetting than the original comment or post, especially if it's set up with large images or gifs. It'd be a lot nicer if blocking could be done from other places, too.

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Dessalinesreply
lemmy.ml

You can also block / report them from their comments / posts.

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Echreply
lemm.ee

Ah, I see that for users now. Thanks! Would still be nice to be able to block communities from afar, too, fwiw.

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MazonnaCara89reply
lemmy.ml

If you don't mind what's the problem with the current implementation of 2fa?

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Ducks
ducks.dev

Is it just me or is lemmy-ui broken in 0.18.4 docker image? When I upgraded my instance, the UI was not loading properly.

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Nixreply
merv.news

After upgrading it usually takes a couple minutes to work. After refreshing it should work again

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smc87
lemmy.mcnas.tk

Where’s the best place for feature requests? Would love to see a nicer way to subscribe to communities.

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𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
lemmy.ml

Is there a way - as a user - to block/ignore whole instances instead of only single communities?

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remotelovereply
lemmy.ml

Phone apps are doing it, but not sure if that is part of the base functionality. (I use Connect and I can block users, communities or instances.)

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SubArcticTundrareply
lemmy.ml

cough cough lemmygrad cough cough

Edit: I don't have a personal problem with you if you're a communist guys, I just don't want my feed full of communist memes

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Bread
sh.itjust.works

I missed the AMA, but I saw someone ask about archiving Lemmy and one of you two had mentioned that the instances kinda already do. In a sense they do, but only for subscribed instances. I feel like there could be something a bit more dedicated for the purpose of archival.

Do you have any thoughts or tips on the best way to tackle that? I have a bit of rust experience and willing to look into it.

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Nutomicreply
lemmy.ml

You can use the lemmy-stats-crawler (or part of the code) to get a list of instances. Then use endpoints /api/v3/post/list and /api/v3/comment/list to retrieve the content.

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Stumblinbear
pawb.social

Looks like the links to the fixes are just going to the entirely wrong place. They aren't related at all

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Die4Ever
programming.dev

any fix for the instances updated column falling out of date? or maybe expanding the window to 5 days instead of 3 days? or instances with 2 day old updated column could be rechecked daily?

https://yiffit.net/post/868741

I don't think I was able to find an issue or pull request about this on Github so I haven't been able to track its progress

I was gonna file a bug on Github but one of the required fields is a log file, but I don't currently have this issue on my own little instance

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McInTyre007
lemmy.ml

Came from reddit to lemmy, it's difficult to use it :( I'm using thunder, still using lemmy seems a headache

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FrostySpectaclesreply
lemmy.ml

I feel your pain and I'm hoping I can help! I'm making a web UI that aims to be easier to use than existing ones.

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The_Worstreply
feddit.nl

I kinda hoped it was fixed with this release:

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

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