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Lemmy v0.18.4 Release

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

Liberapay (preferred option)
Open Collective
Patreon
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Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

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Support development

I've subscribed monthly, if you can afford it, you should too!

There's no present danger of making the development team rich enough to dismantle the capitalist state. The funding is yet to reach normal subsistence level. You can see the sums collected in each of the platforms.

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- Did someone say LemmyCoin?
  
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  No. 😅
  
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Thank you guys, you are amazing!

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- No probs!
  
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This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

All I came here to see, thanks.

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Does anyone else have an issue where the browser back button causes Lemmy to go back twice?

In other words, if you click "next" at the bottom of your feed, open a post and press the back button, does it return to the original page?

Or, if you choose a sort, open a post and press the back button, does the sort get reverted?

It started happening to me in 0.18.3, but I don't want to file a report if I'm the only one experiencing this

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- I tried it and if I click next, I go to page 2. Then I open a post and click the back button on the browser. And then I'm back on page 2, as expected.
  
  Also tried to switch sorting method and it remembers the sorting method when I go back from a post as expected.
  
  I think probably you have some plugin that is interfering. Try with another browser or a clean browser profile.
  
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  I can reproduce it on Android in Firefox Nightly, but not in incognito mode (even while logged in). It happens in Chromium as well, including in incognito mode
  
  In Firefox, I've tried disabling all add-ons and tracking protection and clearing cache and cookies, to no avail
  
  I could test on other phones and operating systems, but I don't really want to spend more time on this. It's not that big of an issue for me
  
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- When this happens, I reload, which seems to return me to where I was in the feed. It's a workaround, but it would be nice to just press the back button
  
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  Me too. I also open most posts in new tabs
  
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- Yes, this and the broken comment context has made browsing seriously painful
  
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  Oh, so It's not just me. I'll do what I can to find the cause
  
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- Still happens to me on chrome with the webpage. I'm using Sync almost exclusively now and it doesn't have this bug.
  
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Feature request: an option to aggregate all comments of crossposted posts. It would save manually going through each crosspost

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- put it in the github
  
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I updated https://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.

We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)

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- Oopsie woopsie yo instance is down 🫤
  
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  Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)
  
  Fixed it now, thank you.
  
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🥳 Thanks to all involved.

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This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

Thank Stallman. You guys rock!

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👍👍

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and again, docker images for arm64 are ready as well :)

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- thanks for the arm builds, I am currently using masquernya/lemmy-arm64.git for arm builds. How do you handle the lemmy-translations update in your build pipeline for lemmy-ui?
  
  I do not see you doing the following, or did I miss something
  
  # manual updates cd lemmy-translations/; git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;
  
  also do you have to trigger the build manually when a new lemmy version is out ?
  
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  Hi, Thanks for the hints, and yes I have to trigger the pipeline by editing and commiting the Version information here
  
  do I really need
  
  cd lemmy-translations/; git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;
  
  even if I have
  
  git submodule init git submodule update
  
  See here and here
  
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- Thank you for this.
  
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Could we get some more feature parity in the old.lemmy by chance? There's no ability to block users, and you should be able to block a group without going into it first. (Let's give you an example here. You don't wanna see horse porn. It shows up in /c/ALL. You have to... VISIT the horse porn group, in order to block it....)

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- Those alternative lemmy interfaces are made by other volunteers IIRC
  
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- That's developed by a third party so you'll have to ask them.
  
  You can block users / communities in lemmy-ui by going to their profile.
  
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  You can block users / communities in lemmy-ui by going to their profile.
  
  I'm not the user you're responding to and don't use the ui they're talking about, but going to those profiles can be more upsetting than the original comment or post, especially if it's set up with large images or gifs. It'd be a lot nicer if blocking could be done from other places, too.
  
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- Create an issue here https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
  
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- Here's a link to the source, where you may be able to submit a feature request: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
  
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Where’s the best place for feature requests? Would love to see a nicer way to subscribe to communities.

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  Thanks
  
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Thanks for the hard work. I've cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.

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vamos

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I missed the AMA, but I saw someone ask about archiving Lemmy and one of you two had mentioned that the instances kinda already do. In a sense they do, but only for subscribed instances. I feel like there could be something a bit more dedicated for the purpose of archival.

Do you have any thoughts or tips on the best way to tackle that? I have a bit of rust experience and willing to look into it.

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- You can use the lemmy-stats-crawler (or part of the code) to get a list of instances. Then use endpoints /api/v3/post/list and /api/v3/comment/list to retrieve the content.
  
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  Good to know, thanks!
  
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Any update on the 2FA implementation (I mean: are you going to implement a way that's a bit more standard than the current one which is unusable for a lot of users?

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- i.e.: SHA1 and not just SHA256 digests
  
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- If you don't mind what's the problem with the current implementation of 2fa?
  
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  It doesn't work with most 2FA apps. The links to apps that supposedly work (in the original announcement post) are dead (to me at least) and they were links to apps I had never heard about before (which is less than encouraging).
  
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Thank you devs!

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based dessalines & nutomic provide the goods yet again

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Is it just me or is lemmy-ui broken in 0.18.4 docker image? When I upgraded my instance, the UI was not loading properly.

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- After upgrading it usually takes a couple minutes to work. After refreshing it should work again
  
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Is there a way - as a user - to block/ignore whole instances instead of only single communities?

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- Phone apps are doing it, but not sure if that is part of the base functionality. (I use Connect and I can block users, communities or instances.)
  
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- If not there are clients that do this already.
  
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- cough cough lemmygrad cough cough
  
  Edit: I don't have a personal problem with you if you're a communist guys, I just don't want my feed full of communist memes
  
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  Feeling real left out here
  
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  This one. And 2-3 others that popped up in the federated timeline recently.
  
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Thank you!

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i assume/hope this is why .world is down?

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Nice, hopefully this fix Sync for Lemmy issues with sorting.

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Excellent GG!!

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If anyone is looking for an arm64 build, feel free to use my docker images.

If you want to build it on your own otherwise, feel free to use the following script.

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Looks like the links to the fixes are just going to the entirely wrong place. They aren't related at all

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any fix for the instances updated column falling out of date? or maybe expanding the window to 5 days instead of 3 days? or instances with 2 day old updated column could be rechecked daily?

https://yiffit.net/post/868741

I don't think I was able to find an issue or pull request about this on Github so I haven't been able to track its progress

I was gonna file a bug on Github but one of the required fields is a log file, but I don't currently have this issue on my own little instance

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Nice, smooth upgrade.

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Thanks to everyone involved!

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Came from reddit to lemmy, it's difficult to use it :( I'm using thunder, still using lemmy seems a headache

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- I feel your pain and I'm hoping I can help! I'm making a web UI that aims to be easier to use than existing ones.
  
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- It's not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time... At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn't take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I've found on here is well worth it.
  
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- I kinda hoped it was fixed with this release:
  
  This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.
  
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  Great, its fixed now
  
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