Context: https://hexbear.net/post/159221

Hi everyone, we're excited to announce that we are ready to do the final site migration back to Lemmy. Before we actually push the new version to the main site, we want to test the new version of Lemmy we're running to catch bugs and any weird behaviour we can fix quickly before we move do the move.

The final move is (tentatively) scheduled for next weekend (downtime will be announced once this is confirmed). This is no longer the plan but it will still be soon.

We have a test Lemmy instance from a recent-ish snapshot of the site that we need people to try using. You can login with your normal account details and just post away.

Test Lemmy instance URL: https://test.hexbear.net Testing is complete.

Disclaimer: Anything you post will be nuked after a week or two, nothing is being saved from this test instance.

If you encounter a bug please let us know what happened, how we can reproduce it, and your OS & browser in the comments below. The more detail, the more likely we can fix things!

  • makotech222 [he/him]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just pushed latest changes now. Be sure to clear cache (and possibly also manually delete Service Worker if it isn't clearing automatically)

    Main Stuff:

    • Only allow images from whitelisted domains (hexbear and imgur for now)
    • Disabled video thumbnails, for now (need to revisit later)
    • Lots of style fixes
    • Admin: uploading emojis is fixed
    • Editing posts should work again
    • Mobile view expand post text is working again
    • Default theme is now darkly (will revisit theming at a later date, fix litely)
    • Rounded avatars, as default lemmy does
    • misc style stuff

    Thanks everyone for all the testing! Lots of stuff that was missed while developing. We are still looking into weird performance issues, esp around deleting comments and saving user settings. Also looking into old Safari versions not able to view page properly.

    Edit: Also been laughing a lot at all the funny bugs and stuff you guys are surfacing. Been a joy working on it :lenin-laugh: