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The instance has now been upgraded up to 0.19.1 from 0.18.5

Due to some authentication changes you will need to log in again and set up 2fa again if you had it previously enabled (since the 2fa process changed to prevent people locking themselves out)

Code Highlighting

If you make code blocks using the three backticks method the code in it will automatically be highlighted based on the detected language (in lemmy-ui aka the site)

Surrounding in 1 backtick lets you do it inline

E.g.

`console.log("hello world")` becomes console.log("hello world")

```
console.log("hello world")
```

Becomes

console.log("hello world")

The blocks will be light if youre on the light theme and dark if youre on the dark theme

Instance Blocking

This is for lemmy-ui, alt frontends may not have support yet or may be done a different way

Go to your profile settings by hitting your name, then settings in the top right

There should be a blocks section you can switch to. Go to the instances part of that and search for the instance you want to block

Blocking an instance will prevent you from seeing posts from that instance

Scaled sort

When you go to choose a sort while browsing posts you should see an option called scaled. This is hot but takes into account the active users to boost communities that need it. (E.g. a community with 20 active users will be shown more than a community with 10000)

Remote following

You can follow a community while browsing it from the site of another instance. To do this just hit subscribe for the community while not logged in on that other instance and it'll bring up a pop-up where you can enter your instance you want to subscribe from

Https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1875#issuecomment-1727790414