imagine not being in CEST time 🤮

If I haven't seen it, its new to me...

It's gradually improving but its 100% not ready for full production outside of enthusiasts who are willing and patient enough to take the time and effort to wrangle with its quirks. If you want to self host (especially as a single user) and aren't prepared to make vigorous backups and aren't extremely technical inclined/are a regular average user it's *really *not worth it right now. It likely will be in time, but there's a lot of issues with lemmy that need to be addressed. Thankfully the coming update will address some of its most serious though. It helps to be involved in the admin matrix community chats and generally accepting community assistance, but it's just far too much to keep on top of for most people. If I didn't have a community and mine was a single user instance, I 100% would have shut it down weeks ago and migrated over to a larger instance.

We need something more simple compatible with Lemmy for hobbyists and for those who don't want to be all day setting up things every time.

I also was thinking about my own personal instance, because I want to see everything federated and then choose what I don't want to see, but everybody's tutorial is different.

Man, I miss the good ol' times with "upload via FTP, run the "install.ext" file in a browser, setup database credentials and then you have it".

Fediverse needs single-user applications.

It depends on your setup and the nature of the updates.

This update is small. If you are using docker/compose, you'll have to do nothing but update the version number of the image.

Large updates sometimes have database migrations that take a long time.

Once in the past, there has been an update that raised the minimum supported Postgres version which was the most tedious. But cases like this are rare.

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I did mine in about 30 seconds. Most of that was just making a backup of my old one.

I mean the link is right in the announcement, you click it and it shows you the time in your timezone :D

Apricoted* FTFY

True, but they are on Matrix.

https://matrix.to/#/!XjpYeXDzufdCLHPMZg:as200950.com/$2BHkM8OwdV4qYvCDCRNzgL9bHeCnzuDCTlmrNS2iFgY?via=matrix.org&via=lemmy.world&via=as200950.com

I don't know why but they are on a separate branch: 0.18.5_release_notes

Reading the commits it seems they want to keep them on join-lemmy, instead of having a changelog/releases file in the github.

They first added the 0.18.5 changes and then deleted the full content of the releases file and put to go to https://join-lemmy.org/news

You mean like some kind of announcement thread in the announcement community announcing a date and time for the update, hours before? That is a good idea I'll run it over with the other admins!