Thanks for all the hard work etc.

Like many other users I am now unable to use my SDF account with my Lemmy apps. As some commenters here have pointed out this seems to be due to SDF upgrading server to version 0.19 which isn’t ready and breaks app support- see

Please could we rollback to the previous working version for general/production use pending a working upgraded version

Thanks!

Edit: For everyone recommending to use Voyager, thanks, but I thought Lemmy was meant to be about federation. Perhaps others will switch but personally I am not interested in jumping through hoops moving my settings across because of an inappropriate version change.

  • Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    8 months ago

    I happened to be in the same situation with a smaller instance and mods concluded it’s irreversible. I can’t use them with a clients that doesn’t support these future changes, and it’s like a month since that happened. Hope your problem can be resolved, but it’s on admins automatically updating servers and Lemmy distribution channel owners making and pushing such updates without a notice.

    • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      I don’t know how ‘irreversible’ it might be in this particular situation, but I’ve had to fall back to one of my alt accounts on another instance. I’m not sure how sensible it is to stay on a smaller instance where the admins think it’s clever to deploy a pre-release server version to production without notice, testing, or a rollback strategy

      • Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 months ago

        It was something to do with database reformating into a new state iirc.

        Smaller instances aren’t targeted by DDOS and trash posting for one. When Lemmyworld was down, I figured out I’d like more accounts so at least one of them works.

        It obviously has risks of admins being less numerous, experienced and sometimes having that as their hobby project. But without them there’s no fediverse, there should be more interconnected instances so one major one can’t become the next Reddit with it’s stupid decisions.