We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.
Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.
Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.
We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.
Good luck. This is my favorite instance so I will be eagerly awaiting. Lemmy has been incredible and strangely what I needed. I would doom scroll reddit and see the same posts and the same comment chains and just redundancy hell.
Lemmy feels so different and the community is so welcoming. Thanks again everyone for making this lost Redditor a found lemming (is that the correct term lol).
Ugh, so true. On Lemmy, it feels like it’s actually worth it to qualitatively engage with people.
Agreed. I think the user base is a big part of it. Almost by definition, this place is full of people that used to use third party Reddit apps. That group would have been dominated by people that signed up before Reddit launced their official app in 2016, so accounts that are at least seven years old, and in many cases, even older (my first Reddit account dates to 2011). That means (1) users who were teens or adults in 2016 that are now seven years older and hopefully seven years wiser, and (2) users that participated in Reddit when it was more discussion forum oriented rather than the current form of quick dopamine hit memes.
I’m nearly 40, and I suspect a decent amount of the users over here are too (i.e., the group of twentysomethings that discovered Reddit shortly after the Digg situation). Children and teenagers that signed up for Reddit within the past two or three years would be on the official app without a reason to migrate, so hopefully, that means this place is mostly adults willing to have respectful conversations with one another. We’ll see if it lasts, but that’s the impression I get now. It’s refreshing.