Update The upgrade was done, DB migrations took around 5 minutes. We’ll keep an eye out for (new) issues but for now it seems to be OK.
Original message We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 (Check what this isn in your timezone). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ““Edit”” I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer.
Release notes for 0.18.3 can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md
(This is unrelated to the downtimes we experienced lately, those are caused by attacks that we’re still looking into mitigating. Sorry for those)
Will it change the behaviour of sorting by hot? seeing post from years ago is funny
Yes, the 0.18.3 changelog has
Fixing hot_ranks and scores to append a published sort
as one of the items.
Smooth! Curious about the new DB size
Down from 12GB to 1.8GB…
Wow, thats awesome for the backups and scalability!!
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OK, updating the post
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Yep, I like good tips like these. :-) Thanks
Super nitpick. Can we just use 1800 utc? Then everyone can convert to their zone directly. *signed me in a CEST zone.
yeh, the actual utc time is much more straightforward than +2
Version 0.18.3 of what?
Cool, now defederate from lemmygrad.ml
How do you turn on endless scrolling? I’m still seeing page numbers
Number 1 thing I miss from reddit w/ RES. 😫
Infinite scroll and word filtering. If I see one more post about “AI”, Musk, Twitter, or fake superconductors, I might have to get off the computer for 10 whole minutes.
Word filtering is fairly easy to do if you know your way around uBlock filters.
Yeah, but I don’t
Fair. It’s not too hard, but most lemmy UIs make it a bit harder than it needs to be because they want to be a fancy JavaScript-ridden mess of html tags.
On old.lemmy.world it is supremely easy, you just use the element picker tool of uBlock to select all posts, add the ‘magic’ command
:contains(reddit)
to filter out the word you don’t want (in this case reddit), and you’ve got your filter. This would result inold.lemmy.world
.On lemmy.world it is trickier because it is the kind of HTML no sane person would write. Doing the above you end up with
lemmy.world#
which is messy, and misses a line that is used to divide the posts. With some manual tuning you can first simplify the first part to#.post-listing:contains(reddit)
and then add:xpath(.|following::hr[1])
to get rid of the annoying line. This results in##.post-listing:contains(reddit):xpath(.|following::hr[1])
.Oh is it literally just css selectors, but with a slightly different syntax? Fuck me, I never looked into it and assumed it was nonsense.
The extra syntax is just to add some features that aren’t in CSS. Not quite sure where this came from, I think it’s from the Adblock Plus era, but Gorhill perfected it for uBlock origin, which makes it a very powerful tool.
It’s not limited to just hiding the elements either, if you want you can simply restyle them (I’ve used this to redact sports results until I hovered over them).
I want to be able to ban/hide entire servers. Regularly seeing lemmynsfw celebrity communities pop up in All/Hot :| (I have nsfw disabled, so it’s just generic photos of random women.)
Also an option would be nice to hide downvoted posts, I had that on in RES.
The Connect app ( !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca) has both word filters and instance-blocking, I believe.
Thanks, but I’m a PC only user.
Keep an eye on !alexandrite@lemmy.world which is being developed as a Desktop-first Lemmy client. Someone already requested instance-blocking there. Not sure about word filters but why not ask?
thanks!
Any idea who might be launching the ddos attacks?
Haters. Groups paid by Steve Huffman. Script kiddies. Any rich trust fund pissant with a couple hundo to spend on the dark web.
Groups paid by Steve Huffman
Any basis for this conspiracy theory?
Not too much, just that it would be incredibly tempting of an option for a millionaire. Anonymously destroy your competition by paying some dark web site in Monero? Sure why not?
If that were the case, I think he would have paid a bit more and make sure it would have stayed down. No competition was destroyed here.
I think it’s Far more likely that it’s just a bunch of scriptkiddies saying “when I press button, error page goes brrrrrrr”.
Thank you for the heads up!!
2pm EST for us silly Freedum Unit folks.
EDT actually, not EST.
oh yeah, forgot about that. Could’ve just put ET.
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