The instance has been updated to Lemmy version 0.19.1.

Version 0.19.0 was reported to have an outgoing federation bug, meaning if you commented on something from another instance (lemmy.world, for example), nobody on that instance would see it.

Version 0.19.1 was supposed to fix that bug, so I decided to update. It turns out the bug is still there, so I re-opened the bug report. It’s now back in their queue to be fixed.

Unfortunately there’s no good way to roll back to 0.18.5 to get federation working again, because there were a lot of database changes going to 0.19.1. Restoring from the backup would mean losing a couple days of posts, and I don’t think that’s worth pursuing.

In other news, the picture storage that’s built in to this Lemmy instance is now hosted in Cloudflare R2 storage. We were running out of room in the small VM that runs all this stuff, so this offloads a bunch of storage (relatively, as it’s only 12GB of stuff, 24 including backup). This should be a very cost effective way to continue offering picture uploads. I think right now it should cost around $.02/month, but we’ll find out after we get the first bill.