Wow, you weren’t lying about them “a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, from github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it’s still been 6+ months since the last update.
I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you're told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you're going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it's just vulnerable. But yeah, I've been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn't notice right away, so lots of instances had applied the broken update...
Building apps is hard. I figured out we could instead steal the work Reddit has done and have been working on turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client. I know many of you don’t like it but hey, this might be a selling point during the next exodus
n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Wow, you weren’t lying about them “a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, from github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it’s still been 6+ months since the last update.
LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
I use Summit as well, it’s great. It’s not FOSS however.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 weeks ago
I still wonder how they do security. With every other internet facing service, you're told to do updates as fast as possible. Or you're going to be vulnerable against all sorts of attacks. And either Lemmy has far fewer bugs than other software, or someone must be backporting the patches. Or it's just vulnerable. But yeah, I've been around that time where there were some database issues. And the one or two times federation broke altogether, and people didn't notice right away, so lots of instances had applied the broken update...
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Building apps is hard. I figured out we could instead steal the work Reddit has done and have been working on turning the official Reddit app into a Lemmy client. I know many of you don’t like it but hey, this might be a selling point during the next exodus