Hello,

while preparation our upcoming Lemmy update we’re also be updating to a newer database version, which will provide additional performance benefits and functionality.

We are planning for around 10 minutes of downtime for the database update between 19:00-19:30 UTC on 22nd of February. This is not yet the planned Lemmy update, we will be announcing that separately when we are ready.

edit: You can convert this to your local time here: https://inmytime.zone/?iso=2025-02-22T19%3A00%3A00.000Z

edit 2: The database upgrade has been completed successfully.

    • lwadminOPMAEnglish
      481·
      4 months ago

      a link has been added for your friend

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        4 months ago

        I’d be pleased if a time was also mentioned that relates to the local server time; and I don’t even care which time zone. I can convert from all five zones way faster than loading a javascript-tainted URL, cursing, going back, reopening in a private window, enabling js, reloading, closing.

        No worries though.

        • MrKaplanAEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          local server time is UTC.

          time in UTC is included both in the title and the post itself.

    • SerinusM
      7·
      4 months ago

      In the winter, we’re -5. In the summer, we’re -4. Winter and summer being defined as when the clocks change for daylight savings.

      It’s good to know even if you just have a link sometimes.

      Edit: This is just from my memory. It could be more complicated than this.

      • jaggedEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Isn’t it more like -4 for a couple of weeks in spring and autumn?

        • SerinusM
          1·
          4 months ago

          You know, I’ll edit and make it clear that I don’t know what I’m talking about. You might be right.

    • PerhyteEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      EST is UTC-5, so tell your friend that it’ll be between 14:00-14:30 EST on the 22nd of February.

    • fury
      14·
      4 months ago

      Came here to post this.

      (And stop calling me Shirley)

    • PlasticExistenceEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Just repeat to yourself, “It’s just a site. I should really just relax!”

  • okwhateverdudeEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    Best of luck on your restore-from-back-up test tomorrow! 😉

  • robocall
    13·
    4 months ago

    What will I do with my life during that downtime?

  • qazEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    …also be updating to a newer database version, which will provide additional performance benefits and functionality.

    Which functionalities are you interested in?

    • RuudMA
      27·
      4 months ago

      For me the faster VACUUM would be reason enough to migrate :-) But I think overall it’s best to keep up-to-date and a few minutes downtime is worth it.

    • MrKaplanAEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      incremental backups might also be something worth looking into

    • slimerancherEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      I always thought it’s just something you say, whenever upgrading to anything newer. Even if there are no additional benefits.

      • PlasticExistenceEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        One benefit is that you have a tested upgrade path if you keep up with versions. If you don’t and you make big jumps in version when you update, there’s a chance that you’ll run into an untested situation that causes an issue.

  • Stamets
    121·
    4 months ago

    Delight your ears with a listen along on this deranged trip.

    Friends, posters, lurkers… Lend me your upvotes. For lo, in a mere day, the doors of Lemmy shall be shuttered. Our memes cast into the abyss. Our shitposts left orphaned. Unsent. O wretched fate! O cruel, unfeeling cosmos! How shall we endure? Thirty minutes is no mere blip in the timeline of our bumbling digital existence. It is an ERA. An epoch of suffering! Civilizations rise and fall in such time! Legends are written, heroes are forged, and here I will sit, my hands trembling, no memes able to posted, no takes able to be unleashed, no silly little guys to upvote. What shall become of me? Shall I gaze into the empty abyss of my own thoughts? Speak to the people I live with?

    No. That way lies madness. I shall be but a husk, a shattered remnant of who I once was, awaiting the sweet release of Lemmy’s return. And yet, even in my darkest hour, I take solace in one thing: at least I do not have to spend these thirty minutes on startrek.website, that lawless den of fools, where moderation is a myth, the admins are as competent as a warp core made of wet paper, and every discussion devolves into a petty slap fight between people who somehow all deserve to lose. If the fabric of reality must be torn asunder for thirty minutes, let it be here, and not in that cursed wasteland.

    Hold fast, my fellow posters. We shall weather this storm. We shall endure this trial. And when the servers rise again, like Kahless reborn, I shall return to these lands with memes twice as cursed, takes twice as deranged, and an unbroken will! Stronger. Funnier. Hornier. Steel your hearts. Prepare to refresh your pages. Let not the darkness take you for the MEMES SHALL RISE AGAIN.

  • Loce
    6·
    4 months ago

    What about “read-only friday”? :)

    • RookiA
      9·
      4 months ago

      I would say it is rather opposite for a volunteer driven team. "Read only-Mo-Fr " because we have more time on weekends in general.

  • VikEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    sick one. Thank you for your efforts.