I opened up a bug in postgres for it, because I’m sure we’re not the only ones to run into this.

We haven’t done any releases yet, but no post scores will still be okay.

We use a different syntax for spoilers.

Use the report button also to report transphobia, so we can get to it asap.

Cool, I originally thought about doing it that way, but maintaining allowlists and blocklists for all the different types of activities could get cumbersome (especially if we add things like blocking posts, comments, communities, messages, etc). But ya that’s a good issue to have.

Spoilers should be working fine on most clients, but it’s a front end thing.

Yep this has been a growing problem, with ppl using various alt accounts on different servers to downvote things. Usually it’s pretty obvious because these accounts are all from the same servers, and have little or no comments or posts.

With that setting you can be sure that all the votes at least are coming from your local users, keeping vote anonymity, and without disconnecting from the bigger servers.

This is completely wrong.

Most platforms (especially reddit, instagram, twitter) moved ads from ad-dedicated spaces, to authentic-seeming posts, that are actually ads.

Could you open up an issue on the github for this (if you didn’t already).

Thx! Let me know if the postgres upgrade helper script I provided has any issues.

This is correct, and we’ve been following this for lemmy too.

That’s my bad really. Currently we’re using the patch semver to denote non-breaking changes, and the minor for breaking.

We’re holding off on a major release until the API reaches stable, which like all open source projects we’re reticent to do because then it puts a lot of pressure on us to match the standard of enterprise-level software developed by a large corporation.

Even though lemmy has many thousands of monthly active users, we’re still really an beta-level software developed by a handful of people.

Yep, major thanks to @asonix for adding this to pict-rs.

o7

No probs!

Probably too soon to say, but hopefully.

With a few more additions, lemmy could serve as a good replacement. We already have a Forum / NewComments sort which is perfect for question / answer type communities. We could add a feature to make default sorts for specific communities, so they would feel less fast, or possibly a sort that brings zero comment posts (IE meaning unanswered), to the top.

The reputation and “accepted answer” features from SO are a lot less important than threaded comments can be, especially since questions often need new answers every year, making the “accepted answer” pointless.

To update everyone:

In getting ready for the upcoming lemmy release, we usually deploy a test release here on lemmy.ml (the dev instance) for a few days, to discover any issues for a large production server, so other people don’t have to.

We found a performance issue with this one, so we downgraded back to 0.19.3, and restored from a database backup made a few hours ago.

I apologize for the few hours of downtime that caused today.

Okay we’re back! Sorry about the downtime, was ~40m.