In anticipation of Lemmy’s upcoming 0.19 release, and to work out any final issues, we’re going to deploy a test release on lemmy.ml within the next few days.

We’re doing this testing on lemmy.ml only, so that we can encounter any issues before the release, and to make sure the upgrade process is smooth for other production servers.

Some of the following will happen during the process:

  • Apps will likely break (only for lemmy.ml)
  • Lemmy.ml may experience some downtime for the upgrade to complete (ideally no more than an hour).
  • If anything goes wrong, we may have to restore from a database backup, meaning content made in between backups may be lost.

If all goes well, we’ll have an official announcement for the release after this testing period.

I apologize for the difficulties this might cause. At most this will be a week of hair-pulling, but its vital that we catch any issues before telling other servers to upgrade.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Comment IDs are not unique between instances so you simply cannot change just the part after the @ to link to the same comment but accessing it from another instance.

    You can always take the comment’s full URL and put in in the search field of your instance, this will show that particular comment in your instance so you can interact with it from there.