Hello,

we will be performing the long awaited update to Lemmy 0.19.9 tomorrow.

We are planning for around 1 hour of downtime between 16:00-17:00 UTC on 16th of March.

You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-03-16T16%3A00%3A00.000Z

You can find an overview of the changes in our previous announcement here and in the Lemmy release notes:

Update 16:50 UTC:

The upgrade was successfully completed at around 16:27 UTC, but we’re still fighting with some performance issues after the upgrade. Our database and the outbound federation container are currently using significantly higher CPU than expected, which is still being investigated to identify the root cause.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    361·
    2 days ago

    This is the update that’ll break sync, right?

    Sad times, but I guess I’m gonna be deciding between boost and infinity tomorrow

    • Shadow@lemmy.ca
      42·
      2 days ago

      No it won’t. That’s the next major release, this is just LW catching up.

      • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        2 days ago

        partial breakage, the stuff that people on other instances have already been experiencing for a while.

        iirc there are still some additional issues with sync arising with the update, but it won’t be entirely broken.

        • Shadow@lemmy.ca
          10·
          2 days ago

          I’m a sync user and haven’t had any issues, what breakage are you referring to?

            • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              23 hours ago

              Biggest problem for me is that posts no longer show as read. Makes it almost completely unusable. I switched to Voyager and canceled my premium Sync subscription.

            • Victor@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 days ago

              Well damn. The comments for me are not so rarely even more important/interesting than the post itself…

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          For me Sync has been broken since long ago (proud Summit user now), my instance has always been updated faster than .world though, so I can’t really pinpoint since which version I started having issues with it.

    • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      172·
      2 days ago

      I used sync for reddit for years, but I kinda hope sync dies. But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads. Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued. One of the top posts on the sync community when I checked was to not report PMs because it will actually report a random comment with the same ID, which is just a massive fuck up given the amount of spam PMs.

      • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Honestly I was fine with the rebuy at first since it was a significant recode AND because they promised to stay on top of development a lot better than they had in the past. Obviously that was a lie and that’s why I’m frustrated with them.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

        Exactly. Not even a discount. I think it was even more expensive than the reddit version.

        I just checked. It’s $20 to remove ads. Wow.
        I also checked to see how much it cost for the reddit version. I paid $4 to remove ads and $5 for the “pro” version. That’s more than I’ve paid for any app. Now they want another $20 to remove ads on an app they neglect and ignore their customers? Disgusting.

        Plus their inability to update on a regular basis is kinda terrible, and has continued.

        Not just continued, but has gotten worse. Additionally, it’s even more important to update more frequently because of the more frequent changes. It was also never fully functional for Lemmy. For example, spoilers have never worked.

        To add to all that, they don’t even have the decency to pop in for a quick comment or two just to help people feel better.

        • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
          23·
          1 day ago

          Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone trying to value their work higher. Maybe just use a different app? Ironically I was a pro user on Reddit and have never been forced to upgrade on Lemmy as it has never shown me a single ad despite the fact that I would in heartbeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , I have never had issues with any Sync app and I’ve been a user since…I dunno 2013?

          I do agree that JDLawson has become more reclusive but he was never all that interactive with the community to be honest. I don’t see that updates or stability of the app has really been an issue. Any time I have had problems they have always been native to Lemmy.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        But I also have an axe to grind with the dev after they invalidated the app purchases and made people buy it again to not have ads.

        Is that even legal?

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      121·
      2 days ago

      Former Sync user of around 5 years. Recently switched to summit and it was a pretty easy transition. I’ve made plenty of rants about how the Dev just abandons paying customers and I finally had enough once I knew that it actually messes things up if you try to report some things.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        7·
        2 days ago

        I can’t make any other app look and feel as nice as Sync, honestly. I was trying out Thunder just now, and maybe I could get used to it but the user avatars don’t work for some reason. I don’t disagree about ljdawson though and I wish it was different.

        • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          If you haven’t tried Summit, give it a go, the default look is NOT Sync like but it has a lot of customization options and I feel like I’ve gotten my setup looking pretty close.

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I’ve tried but like all other apps it’s not perfect. I don’t know why you can’t tweak the spacer in your post view. List With Cards gets kinda close but the spacer is too big (and the cards could be a little more compact). With Compact view the spacer is too thin.

            I also hate the way it handles user avatars/profile pictures. Why are Sync and Boost the only apps that do it properly? Hide it altogether if no custom picture is selected, otherwise display it. All the “default Lemmy” user avatars make the comment section too busy in Summit, but I want to see custom ones since it helps me identify people I recognise.

            Summit also doesn’t do a different font colour for pinned threads.

        • paranoid@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          I’m trying out Thunder and like it for the most part, but I can’t seem to get messages to work

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 day ago

        Try Summit, it’s slick!

        Yeah, yet another proprietary app is really the place to go.

        Thunder works great, it FOSS, and under active development.

      • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        You don’t need to understand the underlying OS best practices because the app dev is given full access to the device

        You also don’t need to understand the underlying OS to make false claims about how it works.

          • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            51·
            2 days ago

            If I intended to insult you, I would have. But when you make an outrageous claim without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence, and I’m not in any shape to explain why your assertion that an app gets full access to your system on install is laughable. I’m also not in any shape to deal with thin skinned posters who see insults in everything, so good day.