lemm.ee has been upgraded to 0.18.1!
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!
Hopefully we don't get any of these issues.
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!
Excellent. Thanks as always for all your hard work!
Where can I follow development on the release clients?
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Holy smokes, this is a wild UX and UI improvement. Great work!
Great! I'm glad I'll be able to use Jerboa again (hopefully).
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.
Hey, I have deployed a fix for a specific bug, can you check if it helped at all for you on iOS?
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!
Can you give it another try now? I just deployed some fixes that might help!
Just to be 100% certain - if it still doesn't work, could you also check if it's broken in an incogintio/private browsing tab? That would ensure that requests are being made without any cache.
It works!!! Thank you so much for the time and effort you’ve been putting in for the community! 🙏🏻
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!
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.
Yeah, I think that error message should be clarified ^^
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
I just noticed your username. Haha.
Hey! I have deployed a fix for content not appearing, please check and let me know if it looks any better for you.
Unfortunately, there's no change. I finally got a screenshot up.
Thank you so much for working SO much on lemm.ee! You're a fantastic sysadmin.
Hmm, that's unfortunate.. Could you also take a screenshot of what the console in your developer tools looks like on lemm.ee? Here's a general guide on how to access the console: https://balsamiq.com/support/faqs/browserconsole/#google-chrome
I've got to learn to pay more attention to the notifications bell in Lemmy.
The console says Uncaught (in promise) Error: Cannot find module './es-PR' a https://lemm.ee/static/2402446/js/client.js:1
I do have some settings in Spanish. That's apparently the language code for Puerto Rican Spanish. In Lemm.ee, I had Undetermined, English & Spanish selected. I de-selected Spanish, but still get the same error in the console.
Edit: I Logged out in FF, deleted cookies for lemm.ee & restarted the browser, but the error is still there. I've also confirmed that the error exists in Linux.
I deleted Puerto Rican Spanish from the display languages in FF. That just changed the error to es-MX. I deleted Mexican Spanish from FF. Lemm.ee displayed correctly! 😁 I re-added the 2 Spanish settings, closed & re-opened FF and the site still displays correctly, so this issue is resolved.
Thank you so much for the detailed response, I believe I have managed to fix the issue. I will be deploying the fix on lemm.ee later tonight!
You're welcome! I work on a help desk among other I.T. related things, so I like thorough documentation for others & my future self.
When you get a chance, could you check if the issue has been resolved for you? I deployed my fix a little while ago.
Splendid! 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)
As well as being able to be accessed by Jerboa again.
Working great! And Jerboa too.
@[email protected] Thank you so much for all of the hard work you're putting in here!
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.
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.
Thanks, had to check. But yeah I have "Show Read Posts" checked.
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.
Not sure if you'll see my reply on the other account, so I'll copy it here as well just in case.
Try this: highlight all languages, and click save at the bottom of the page (do not click the X at all) - does that make any difference?
Well damn, that fixed it!!!
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.
Nice, congrats @[email protected]
Ahh...so much better whitespace usage. Earlier, it felt like I was using a mobile app.
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!
Seen the same thing. There is an open issue on GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3366
I have already made a PR to fix the error message, but it has not been merged yet unfortunately
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.
I think I read somewhere that the image size limit for lemm.ee is 100kb.
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).
Whoa, it looks so different now! Gonna take me a few minutes to get used to it but... GLORIOUS USAGE OF HORIZONTAL SCREEN SPACE!
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!
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!
You can save a comment with "Ctrl + Enter" now (which is what I always tried before and didn't work).
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.
Congratulations!
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.
Anyone else seeing the same problem?
I have received several "test reports" of this particular comment by the way 😃
Will need to look into why it's not working reliably
Oh noes I'm gonna get banned
When trying to make a report, the backend sends the response:
Looks like a backend issue.
I tried creating a test report on your comment and the button doesn't save it.
Thanks for confirming, I'll go see if it's already an issue on Github somewhere 👍
D...did the font size get smaller on desktop? Oh god, I feel old.
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.)
Can confirm.
Had this too. I resolved by changing my theme from browser theme to something else, saving, closing Lemmy and re-opening.
The theme should be accessible under your username > settings
This is using the web as application feature in Android FYI.
Darkly (the regular theme) doesn't seem to get fixed by doing this, but I tried out darkly compact and it's working, thanks!
This workaround is no longer working for me :(
Are the comments on your end still showing up properly?
So far, yeah. I'm using darkly pure black currently
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).
Do you possibly have "Show Read Posts" unchecked in your profile settings?
Just checked and that option is ticked.
Can you try selecting ALL languages, rather just English and Undetermined? Let me know if that makes any difference.
I selected all languages (except "IsZulu", the control doesn't seem to save properly when I try to select every language, tried a bunch of times but couldn't get it to save), and I'm still only seeing the (now) six most recent posts. I tried unchecking and rechecking the "Show Read Posts" option, but it didn't make a difference. I also cleared the cache on my browser(s).
BugReport
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.
Try this: highlight all languages, and click save at the bottom of the page (do not click the X at all) - does that make any difference?
Yup, that did that trick, all fix, thanks!!!
Finally! I've been browsing lemmy.ml so far. That feed flooding was really untenable.
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.
I don't think there is any way at the moment, sorry!
Hey, I got the issue that was posted here for rc1 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1657
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.
I have this problem on two different systems.
Hey! I have deployed a fix for this issue, let me know if it's still occurring.
Well I can say that the site now looks the same on browser standard as it looks on english or german so that worked. But that look is now this: https://imgur.com/9ctuZdv
Clearing the browser cache took it back to normal, so everything seems to be fine now. Thank you for what ever it is you did ^^
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.
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!
Where can I find the release announcements? I thought in only saw 0.18.1.rc.1 only yesterday.
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
I am confused. The title and context of your post says 0.18.1. Does that mean 0.18.1.rc.1 then? Or was it a typo?
We are on 0.18.1.rc4
\o/
(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.
Bug Report
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.
P.S. Lemmy.ml is lagging so badly in getting messages incoming, your posting hasn't shown up on lemmy.ml copy of the community, so I'm using my test instance and a test account. Your last two posts, before and after the upgrade, are not on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New
Hey!
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
Ok, I now have a new login on your server, thank you.
So that's a different bug... it seems if you login to an account that doesn't exist you get no error message.
Bug or design choice...
I notice when reading directly on your server, that the URL parameters are not part of the link.
0_o
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’m on mobile (iOS) so don’t have a hard refresh option.
Bug Report
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