There should be a dedicated post every time a new version is released so people can ask questions about bugs\issues they encounter when upgrading their lemmy instance. The support community barely has any activity and theres never an official thread for the latest upgrade. The upgrade instructions are usually vague and then you have to go to matrix to ask questions and nothing is organized and cant be search on search engines.
For example im trying to upgrade from .18.5 to the latest (.19.3) but the ansible instructions are:
- git pull && git checkout 1.4.0
- Read Pictrs’ Configuration Changes
- Amend your vars.yml file to respect the new changes
It doesn’t give any details to where I might find the vars.yml file and it doesnt give an example file of the what the file should look like after the correct changes are made.
It’s very strange that a platform that has the best ui for finding fixes to issues etc reccomends people go to a seperate chat platform to ask for questions that will presumably be asked multiple times since its so difficult to keep track of stuff.
Can we please have an official Lemmy Upgrade thread when a new version is released instead of relying on Matrix?
There literally is an upgrade thread every time a new version of lemmy is released. They do it over on (cleverly enough) [email protected]. 0.19.3’s thread is here.
thats not an upgrade support thread its a thread announcing the release. Notice how no one is posting there asking for support and no where in the documentation does it mention the thread. People are guided towards the matrix instead and theres like 4 matrix channels where people ask questions so its all unorganized, unsearchable on search engines, and no benefit of upvotes