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Hexbear 0.19.5 update finished!

Hi All,

Thanks for the patience on the 8 hour downtime. The upgrade was completed successfully, and we are now on latest lemmy version, 0.19.5. The update encompasses these changes:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes

In addition, we have decided to host a new, experimental frontend for lemmy, hosted at https://next.hexbear.net. This frontend is in-development at https://github.com/sunaurus/lemmy-ui-next. Its generally a faster, more efficient, and simpler UI. It is missing some features, such as markdown editor and emoji picker currently. But, if you are on a low-powered device, you may find the experience of browsing and posting much better than the official UI.

Please post any bugs or feedback here and I'll try and address them if possible.

Thanks!

PKMKII [none/use name] - 1.5yr

It is missing some features, such as markdown editor and emoji picker currently.

Literally unusable

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Bisexual_Cookie [comrade/them, any] - 1.5yr

no emoji walter-breakdown

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 1.5yr

For hexbear being down for 8 hours I want a discount on my next payment.

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Posadas [he/him, they/them] - 1.5yr

rat-salute-2

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WhyEssEff [she/her] - 1.5yr

I don't like the upbear number. Its crooked aura mocks me smug-aura-mocks-me

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Tabitha ☢️[she/her] - 1.5yr

Please post any bugs or feedback here

Middle-clicking the "Next" button at the bottom of the page doesn't do the default browser behavior, which is to open the page in a new tab. Instead of the default browser behavior, nothing happens.

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Pisha [she/her, they/them] - 1.5yr

There's a bug on the new version where, basically, buttons don't work that others and I suffer from. Here's a thread with more details. The "Next" interface seems to work, however.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

unfortunately i don't have any apple devices to test; this one will probably be up to lemmy devs themselves.

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Pisha [she/her, they/them] - 1.5yr

I experience it on Firefox on KDebian, but that's probably not helpful either

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sovietknuckles [she/her] - 1.5yr

Thanks for all of your hard work! Something I noticed while Hexbear was down for maintenance:

test.hexbear.net and live.hexbear.net both host their images on hexbear.net, but since both sites are up when hexbear.net is down for maintenance, they should probably host their images somewhere other than directly on hexbear.net, as those images cannot be viewed when Hexbear itself is down.

In the case of test.hexbear.net, it does host a copy of Hexbear images there, but since test.hexbear.net pages only link to images hosted on hexbear.net, those copies seem to go unused.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

yeah cause lemmy stores full urls to pictures in the database. so when we run in the test environment, they still point to prod pictrs. Not much we can do about that unfortunately; just a minor inconvenience.

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Owl [he/him] - 1.5yr

Are we planning on making use of local only communities? I remember some earlier noises about making more sensitive spaces local only, then federating more.

Post hiding is a great feature, I'm glad to see it.

Finally, I'm really curious why traaaaa's name changed after the update, then changed back. Not in a "this is important to me" way so much as in a "I like hearing about cursed tech issues" way.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

Are we planning on making use of local only communities? I remember some earlier noises about making more sensitive spaces local only, then federating more.

Up to the admins/mods, but its supported now at least.

Finally, I'm really curious why traaaaa's name changed after the update, then changed back. Not in a "this is important to me" way so much as in a "I like hearing about cursed tech issues" way.

Not familiar with the issue myself, my guess is maybe one of the db columns had its varchar datatype extended?

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yuritopia [any] - 1.5yr

Site seems to work fine on desktop but when I browse on my phone (IOS. safari) the next button to scroll the page does not work, it just loads the same page. Also, I can't sort any thread, every one is just locked to "Hot" sorting.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

known issue, on safari only. Lemmy upstream will have to do a fix; ill pull it in as soon as its done though.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 1.5yr

I'm on a desktop and I'm using an old version of Edge (I can't upgrade because I'm using Windows 8) and sorting doesn't work either.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

Would you be able to open up your browser's console and see if there are any errors printed in it? that would help debug a lot.

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 1.5yr

Just now I learned all the sorting buttons work for me at lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/post/17050406

The difference is I have no account there so - of course - I'm logged out.

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

They're still on the old version

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 1.5yr

I had to do a screengrab. I couldn't figure out how to output anything.

This is how it looked before I clicked "top" and then "controversial"

After clicked those - there were no more messages.

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Rant. All this stuff is too complicated. Why can't there be an "output" button?

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makotech222 [he/him] - 1.5yr

hmm nothing really suspicious; i don't think that one error is a lemmy thing. Have you tried using firefox or chrome?

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InevitableSwing [none/use name] - 1.5yr

Could you tell me what the url structure is for the buttons?

Like https://hexbear.net/post/2859290?sort=top

I'll try to make a bookmarklet.

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