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)

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    I hope this isn’t what brought down lemmy.one, I’m seeking refugee status from them. :)

    Good luck!

    • Coelacanth
      4•2 years ago

      I’m curious about this as well. I’ve looked into Firefish a bit and it looks interesting, but I can’t seem to follow Lemmy communities from the flagship instance Firefish.Social.

      Works on calckey.world, though.

      • RuudOPMEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        Calckey.world also runs Firefish 1.0

        • Coelacanth
          3•2 years ago

          Firefish.social was upgraded to 1.0.something yesterday I believe. Maybe something broke? On Firefish.Social trying to follow a Lemmy community ends up in just an endless spinning wheel and “processing” while it works normally on calckey.world.

          Curious.

          • RuudOPMEnglish
            4•2 years ago

            Good to know, I’ll skip this update for now…

            • Coelacanth
              2•2 years ago

              Where is the best place to report this to the Devs? I don’t have a GitHub account.

              • RuudOPMEnglish
                6•2 years ago

                I’m in contact with him, I’ll let him know.

                • Coelacanth
                  3•2 years ago

                  Great! It’s a very interesting project, I’m much more excited by it than Mastodon.

    • RuudOPMEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Not renamed. A new server will be started where ppl can migrate to. Yet to determine a new name as firefish.world is taken…

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Confirmed. I’m seeing it too.

      EDIT: similar behavior on old.lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      Haters. Groups paid by Steve Huffman. Script kiddies. Any rich trust fund pissant with a couple hundo to spend on the dark web.

        • @[email protected]
          2•2 years ago

          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?

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            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”.

  • @[email protected]English
    46•2 years ago

    Really liking the transparency with the community over how the server is doing.

    Great work.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-dieEnglish
    163•2 years ago

    Sorry for those

    It’s not your fault :) We know you admins are working really hard to keep the server as stable as possible.

      • Nato BoramEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        This version brings major optimizations to the database queries, which significantly reduces CPU usage. There is also a change to the way federation activities are stored, which reduces database size by around 80%. Special thanks to @phiresky for their work on DB optimizations.

        The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

        In terms of security, Lemmy now performs HTML sanitization on all messages which are submitted through the API or received via federation. Together with the tightened content-security-policy from 0.18.2, cross-site scripting attacks are now much more difficult.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•2 years ago

      in some ways: they now sanitize input so things like the xss attack a while ago is much much harder.

      will it solve the ddos attacks they’re experiencing? nope.

      • redjardEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        Doesn’t it drastically improve performance? I’d say that will help with ddos, more requests can slip through before it affects performance

    • RuudOPMEnglish
      29•2 years ago

      Thanks, added to the post