[Completed] Upcoming Maintenance - Saturday, Dec 16 @ 4pm ET - Lemmy 0.19.0 Upgrade
dmv.social may be unavailable from 4pm ET to around 6pm ET, tomorrow, Saturday, December 16th for a Lemmy upgrade.
This is to install Lemmy 0.19.0 and migrate a database for Pictrs, the image hosting server.
POTENTIAL IMPACT: This WILL log you out of your sessions across Lemmy and your apps. If you lost your password for whatever reason, the sidebar has contact methods for support.
I waiting until tomorrow for other instances to migrate first in case there are any quirks ;)
This will bring a lot of really neat features to Lemmy:
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Improved Post Ranking - The new "Scaled" sort should prioritize smaller communities around Lemmy. Small communities, like a lot of the ones here, might start getting a little more visibility :)
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Instance Blocks for Users - If a particular instance bothers you, it's now possible to block from your user account. (Note, this doesn't change the federation policy of this server)
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Remote Follow - You can now browse other Lemmy instances to find communities then get bounced back to dmv.social to actually follow, versus the currently annoying way of searching and refreshing several times.
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Improved speed on page pagination, so things should feel snappier.
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User data export/import - If you decide to switch instances elsewhere, you can now download a copy of your subscriptions and blocklists and import it to another server so you don't have to do much work to re-create an account.
Full Lemmy 0.19.0 release notes
Lastly, this instance doesn't ask for donations and doesn't plan to. If you're itching to give support in some way, consider a donation to the Lemmy devs: https://join-lemmy.org/donate