Lemmy v0.7.40 Pre-Release (2020-08-05)
We’ve added a lot in this pre-release:
- New post sorts
Active
(previously called hot), andHot
. Active shows posts with recent comments, hot shows highly ranked posts. - Customizeable site icon and banner, user icon and banner, and community icon and banner.
- Added user preferred names / display names, bios, and cakedays.
- User settings are now shared across browsers (a page refresh will pick up changes).
- Visual / Audio captchas through the lemmy API.
- Lots of UI prettiness.
- Lots of bug fixes.
- Lots of additional translations.
- Lots of federation prepping / additions / refactors.
This release removes the need for you to have a pictrs nginx route (the requests are now routed through lemmy directly). Follow the upgrade instructions below to replace your nginx with the new one.
Upgrading
With Ansible:
# run these commands locally
git pull
cd ansible
ansible-playbook lemmy.yml
With manual Docker installation:
# run these commands on your server
cd /lemmy
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/master/ansible/templates/nginx.conf
# Replace the {{ vars }}
sudo mv nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lemmy.conf
sudo nginx -s reload
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/master/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
sudo docker-compose up -d
Playing around with the new display name option - I noticed it’s allowed to set one starting by @. How can we avoid users impersonating other users?
Hrm,I’ll have to think about that one. Obvi there’s still a hover / click and hold, and you can still see who the real user is. Really I don’t want any
@
symbols at all, but it was a helpful differentiator.Oh didn’t notice it. Good, good. Maybe forbidding the use of a leading
@
would be helpful. Not seeing it at the beginning of someone’s alias would be a clear hint the user has a display name set. But I don’t know if@usernames
with the “@” included are here to stay uhYa sounds like a good idea, the no starting
@
thing. I’ll make an issue for it.