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.

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    13 hours 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·
      8 hours 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.

      • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        8 hours ago

        Wow that’s a lot of salt for someone who just wants to express their frustration. Maybe go to another thread?