I totally respect this being potentially a big ask, but does anyone have a TL;DR of what caused or was the fix for the federation issue(s)? I don't have capacity at this moment to look through Github Issues and PRs, but I'm curious
From the little I saw (and zero Rust, or Tokio (I think they use that) knowledge) ... federation workers weren't persisting correctly whenever it would hit certain errors or problems.
Glad to see the federation bug finally fixed
Does this mean we are gonna be able to see comments from other instances? I sometimes see post with a certain number of comments (in the hundreds) but when I open the post I only see a fraction of them.
Possibly, but this is more likely related to your language settings, not having undetermined selected.
should "undetermined" be renamed to "show all" or something?
"Any" I think would be the best way to say it
That sounds correct for the user settings form, but not for the comment / post creation form. Open up an issue on lemmy-ui's gitbub for this if you would.
Yup, for some reason, I had no language selected at all..
DLF is updated if instance admins want to test drive it before deploying.
Great news!
Is this just the backend, or is it UI too? Is there an easy way to find this out myself in future?
Releases are always for backend and frontend together, unless mentioned otherwise. You can check the tags in the git repos, or check the available versions on docker hub.
My mod actions are still not being federated. This hasnt worked for me since maybe 0.18.1 or 0.18.2?
I can't speak for others, but I still seem to be experiencing issues with federation. I've got a comment in here that isn't showing up on other instances.
Today I can say I can see the comment on my instance. Quite possibly it took some time for federation to catch up after being broken for a while.
Yeah that's my theory. I think the workers were busy catching up on the whole backlog of all the comments and posts that had built up over the ~3 week period it wasn't working.
Confirmed, I can't see that comment on my instance.
I think there may be an issue with your instance, because my comment is now showing up on starktrek.website, lemmy.world, etc.
Shortly after my instance upgraded, things seemed not to be federating correctly, but now, everything seems to be working. I suspect that was because the wokers were going through a big backlog of posts & comments that had accumulated in the lengthy time federation was not working. But now, everything seems to be working as expected between my instance and the other larger instances.
Added the ability for admins to view votes, to prevent downvote trolling.
Please give individual users the ability to use an automated system to request to see these votes. There's times where I'll post something that nobody reasonable should show umbrage to and it will get slammed. I want to find out where they're coming from and clear house.
For privacy reasons, and so that people will vote honestly, I'd like this to stay admin-only (and possibly in the future, community mods). But if you ping an admin, we can look into it and see if you're being downvote-stalked.
Okay that's understandable. I'll be sure to send a DM if any of my comments saying something like "r--e is bad, don't do it" get barraged.
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