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June 13 2023 - Lemmy Instance updated to version 0.17.4 - sh.itjust.works (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheDude@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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Good morning,

Some of you may have experienced a small hiccup this morning (eastern time). I went ahead and upgraded our lemmy instance to 0.17.4. I also took this opportunity to make some small adjustments to the instance that required a restart of services. These changes were mainly related to increasing Federation worker count in hopes to decrease synchronization times with other instances. A small fix to help slow down the storage growth was also applied (limiting log sizes that get generated).

Everything should be back up now. In the future my goal is to be more transparent with scheduling downtime.

edit: updated link

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[–] Mstraa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your amazing work !

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good sh.it

[–] PirateSaysAye@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

We should all adopt this when posting! LOL

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Cat pics arent loading fast enough....

Please post donation link so we can upgrade the server!

Thanks for your hard work!

[–] mikehunt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Keep up the good work eh!

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure that's the right link for the version? That changelog only goes to 0.17.2, 4 months ago. Wanted to see what changed.

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are right, wrong link! I just updated it. Thanks for the heads up

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks! Ah, so this is just a DB optimization patch. From the sounds of that changelog, all the big stuff is coming down the pipe in the next version. Presumably that's when they're finally turning off WebSockets.

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe the devs were saying that they were moving away from websockets in v0.18.0 which is scheduled to come out in a few weeks

[–] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm talked to some of the UI devs that's a main focus right now

[–] starrox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your effort. I really have to say the performance here is very good compared to other instances (tried two others before I landed here). Shit just works.

[–] Ram_Ze@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your hard work! It's greatly appreciated.

[–] synacksyn@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! Can you confirm that we are having federation issues? I cannot seem to locate magazines on other instances. I just wanted to make sure its not just me doing something wrong.

[–] UsualMap@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

As I understand it, part of the issue on kbin is that the default federation threads value is too low for large sized instances.

I gather this will improve over time.

[–] yt_deliveries@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Serious question: Is there a way to get the interface to dynamically expand to the width of the browser window? The narrow columns are giving me a twitch in my right eye.

[–] zeldis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, there's a greasemonkey script you can setup to change the formatting. Details here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53395?scrollToComments=true

[–] yt_deliveries@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sweet. Thanks fren.

[–] yt_deliveries@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Works as advertised. 10/10

[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I built a style for lemmy that makes multiple changes in the UI. It requires an add on called Stylus, which is well worth it for a ton of other websites as well

https://userstyles.world/style/10309/densify-for-lemmy

[–] J_C___@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

thanks for the hard work

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unclear if this happened since this patch or it was like this, but I am unable to log in on desktop. My Android app works fine, but on desktop, if I go to the login page then click login, the thing spins forever without any error message regardless of if my credentials are correct.

Edit: this doesn't happen on blahaj.zone which runs 17.2. edit2: either you did something or it fixed itself.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Security fixes - happy to see it applied quickly.

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The security fixes were documented prior and manually applied on our old instance as well. This patch was to get the performance gains and align with the latest release!

[–] true_blue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I'm not sure what "Federation worker count" is, but I also don't know where to look to find the answer.

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everything is documented but here is a link to the official lemmy documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html

[–] true_blue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don't see any mention of "Federation worker count" but... not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!

[–] mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

jolly good show ol chap! Great server!

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great! Always nice to get new updates