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 sortas 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!! 
 
 
- Version 0.18.3 of what? 
- 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. - Phone Home 
 
 
 
- 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”. 
 
 
 
 
- 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 in- old.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! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Cool, now defederate from lemmygrad.ml 
- deleted by creator - OK, updating the post - deleted by creator - 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 
 
 
 
 
 
- Did you change the site’s database management system? - No, it’s just the tables/indexes and application were changed by the Lemmy developers. 
 












