The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes.

You can register on any of the following servers to start testing, no approval required. You can post to your hearts content to find out if anything is broken. The test instances only federate with each other to avoid affecting production instances with spam.

If you encounter any bugs that aren’t present in 0.17, open an issue and mention in the title that it happened with a release candicate version. Over the next days we will publish new RC versions to fix bugs that will invariably pop up.

Instance admins can try the new version by using Docker images dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.18.0-rc.2 and dessalines/lemmy:0.18.0-rc.1. Make sure that working backups are in place. For production instances its better to wait at least some days for the major issues to be fixed.

  • PlasmaK@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I hope that in future versions you will be able to use lemmy without javascript, or at least will be able to read posts without it. I know that everyone uses js monstrosities nowadays, but this seems like a project born out of care and not out of need to ship product under a deadline.

    I don’t demand for people to drop everything and work on it, just hope that this is kept in mind in future.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    frivolous critique, but using Star Trek series names for release candidate testing instances but not having “the next generation” seems like a missed opportunity.

  • scientiam@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    A bit off topic, but can something be done about the power mods? I see a few users already forking every subreddit trying to ensure they remain a mod. No user can meaningfully manage 50-100+ communities.

    Please consider capping the limit to 20 or less. First-mover advantage is huge, so starting up a community down the road to prevent this consolidation of privileges is likely out of the question.