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Official announcements from the Lemmy project. Subscribe to this community or add it to your RSS reader in order to be notified about new releases and important updates.

You can also find major news on join-lemmy.org

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you guys, you are amazing!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

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

All I came here to see, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When this happens, I reload, which seems to return me to where I was in the feed. It's a workaround, but it would be nice to just press the back button

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

put it in the github

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

🥳 Thanks to all involved.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

Thank Stallman. You guys rock!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and again, docker images for arm64 are ready as well :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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....)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Those alternative lemmy interfaces are made by other volunteers IIRC

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

based dessalines & nutomic provide the goods yet again

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you devs!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

i assume/hope this is why .world is down?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Excellent GG!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice, hopefully this fix Sync for Lemmy issues with sorting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If anyone is looking for an arm64 build, feel free to use my docker images.

If you want to build it on your own otherwise, feel free to use the following script.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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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