Its been a long time coming 🥳 .
Excerpt from the link:
Major Changes
Language Tags
Content can now be tagged to indicate the language it is written in. These tags can be used to filter content, so that you only see posts in languages which you actually understand. Instances and communities can also specify which languages are allowed, and prevent posting in other languages.
In the future this will also allow for integrated translation tools.
Comment trees
Lemmy has changed the way it stores comments, in order to be able to properly limit the comments shown to a maximum depth.
Included are proper comment links (/comment/id), where you can see its children, a count of its hidden children, and a context button to view its parents, or the post.
Featured posts
Admins and mods can now “feature” (this used to be called “sticky” ala reddit) posts to the top of either a community, or the top of the front page. This makes possible announcement and bulletin-type posts.
Special thanks to @makotech for adding this feature.
Federation
Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.
Votes are now federated as private. This prevents other platforms from showing who voted on a given post, and it also means that Lemmy now counts votes from Mastodon.
This release also improves compatibility with Pleroma. If you previously had trouble interacting between Pleroma and Lemmy, give it another try.
We’ve extracted the main federation logic into its own library, activitypub-federation-rust. It is open source and can be used by other projects to implement Activitypub federation, without having to reinvent the wheel. The library helps with handling HTTP signatures, sending and receiving activities, fetching remote objects and more.
Other changes
- Admins can now purge content and pictures from the database.
- Mods can distinguish a comment, “stickying” it to the top of a post. Useful for mod messages and announcements.
- Number of new / unread comments are now shown for each post.
- Lemmy now automatically embeds videos from Peertube, Youtube and other sites which provide an embed link via Opengraph attribute.
- You can give your site “taglines”, short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page. Thanks to @makotech for adding this.
- You can now report private messages.
- Most settings have been moved from the config file into the database. This means they can be updated much easier, and apply immediately without a restart.
- When setting up a new Lemmy instance, it doesn’t create a default community anymore. Instead this needs to be done manually.
- Admins can choose to receive emails for new registration applications.
- An upgrade of diesel to v2.0, our rust -> postgres layer.
I’m a new user and it’s really exciting to see the evolution happening here. Thank you!
I faced another thing…
Almost all of my joined communities are now not following, just pending…
I have to cancel the following-request and follow again. This happens after upgrade to 0.17.0
First i see this and click to “Subscribe pending”
then i have to click “Subscribe”
and then, the subscription was successful.
but i was subscribed at all these communities before the upgrade.
There’s an open issue for that in Lemmy, we’re deciding the best way to solve it.
And i tested federation with pleroma. This is a Posting in Pleroma in my lemmys testcommunity
and this comes in lemmy
It works, but not very good. “TEST von pleroma” is set as “Subject” in Pleroma, but it ist not recognized in Lemmy. Pleroma has a Subject. Mastodon not.
the subject from mastadon can be handled by making it whatever is in the first sentence\paragraph. making anything after a line break become the body of the post
This is just a workaround from lemmy, to support Mastodon… 🙏
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Thank you for the great work that you are doing!
This update has a lot of very neat features that I’m excited to play with!
@dessalines@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@nutomic@lemmy.ml
here is answering in “Deutsch” not possible.
No probs!
Also I apologize that the upgrade here took longer than expected. It was a massive conversion of comments to a different form, that had to work for several hundred thousand historical comments.
I bet that was a high-adrenaline click.
And a big smile when it succeeded :)
I love you too.
🎉 thanks to the developers and everyone who helped!
one bug i noticed after the upgrade: my notifications page shows unread notifications for (what i guess is) every reply i’ve ever received which was later deleted. the count in the bell icon only reflected the actual new unread notifications I had received since I last looked, but when i click to view my unread notifications then all of these old ones about deleted messages appear to be unread now.
You can give your site “taglines”, short markdown messages, which are shown at the top of your front page.
What is considered the Front Page?
The top level / home page.
Brilliant as always!
@dessalines Amazing! this release fixed some federation issues between Friendica and Lemmy.
which one?
@jakob
The ability to post pictures from FriendicaOh, i tried it!
YES, it works <3
@jakob
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hmmm… no image in comments…
@nutomic@lemmy.ml here on THIS comment, i can not create a comment, using “Deutsch”. I get the error
Now i create it with “English” (look at the screenshot), and it works.
@nutomic@lemmy.ml Here is the WARN-Message from lemmy-Container
lemmy_1 | 2023-02-03T15:14:29.914510Z WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Fetched remote object https://pawoo.net/users/DarakuNakare which was deleted lemmy_1 | 0: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request lemmy_1 | with http.method=POST http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.schuerz.at http.target=/inbox otel.kind="server" request_id=e2e6c977-464f-43b3-8a3c-0816683afe74 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK" lemmy_1 | at src/root_span_builder.rs:16 lemmy_1 | LemmyError { message: None, inner: Fetched remote object https://pawoo.net/users/DarakuNakare which was deleted, context: "SpanTrace" } lemmy_1 | 2023-02-03T15:14:52.544795Z ERROR lemmy_server::api_routes_websocket: Error during message handling language_not_allowed: language_not_allowed lemmy_1 | 0: lemmy_api_crud::comment::create::perform lemmy_1 | with self=CreateComment { content: "test", post_id: PostId(132386), parent_id: Some(CommentId(59678)), language_id: Some(LanguageId(0)), form_id: Some("comment-form-guVDE01R3JluZvHiaBhL"), auth: Sensitive } lemmy_1 | at crates/api_crud/src/comment/create.rs:41This appeared exactly when i got the error-message in lemmi UI.
I’ve set “English” and “German” as Languages in Admin-Panel.
The problem is that languages on your instance’s version of /c/announcements are also limited to English and German for some reason. I thought this might be a bug in that the site languages would also apply to remote communities, but I cant reproduce that. One thing you can check is go into the db, and make sure that
select * from local_site;returns exactly one column. Then take the value ofsite_idand runselect * from site where id = **site_id**;. This should show the domain and other data of your instance.Anyway you should be able to solve it by refetching the community to your instance (by pasting the community url in the search field). If it worked then
curl "https://lemmy.schuerz.at/api/v3/community?id=46" | jq.discussion_languagesshould output an empty array.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml And here, i tried to answer with setting “Deutsch” too, the same as just before:
and i geht this:
@dessalines@lemmy.ml And here, i tried to answer with setting “Deutsch” too, the same as just before:
(i changed now to English, that i can post this comment now)
@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml
Here is answering in “Deutsch” not possible.
I try to embed this peertube-video https://kino.schuerz.at/w/f55QaQatL9KJgkbCoRihq2
- I can search for a peertube-user, but not follow
- I can NOT find a peertube-channel by its handle. Wheter with ! nor with @
- I can NOT find a Peertube-Video by url
And embedding a Peertube-Video only by Link does not embed it. How to do this right?
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These probably need to opened up as issues on the github.
I created one. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/920
And yes… i didn’t say thank you to you and you work.
Lemmy is so cool.
And my part to make it better is to report bugs, if i find some…
Thank you so much, for your work!
Dont worry, we definitely appreciate your effort :)
Wonderful! Thanks contributors for all the work!
Great Job! 🥳
Great update again. I’m most excited about the embedded videos!
Will these language tags eventually be extended for custom tags (ala Reddit flairs)?
Thanks!
No language tagging has nothing to do with flairs.
Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.
does an admin needs to enable the follow button? it is not appearing for me.
You need to fetch the profile’s URL (https://group.lt/u/yuu) through mastodon
Oh I misread; thought it enabled following fediverse users from within lemmy, but now i see it is actually the other way around. Thank you for clarifying!
