Starting now, we are changing the dev update to a monthly schedule. This is more predictable and gives us more time to write it.

Last month saw the release of Lemmy 0.19.11. It included a lot of changes backported from the development branch. This way improvements can already reach users while the main branch is still under heavy development in preparation for the 1.0 release.

There were numerous other contributions:

On the 1.0 front Dessalines was busy with different rewrites of the database to improve pagination, adding read, liked, and hidden content endpoints, speeding up compilation time, and also getting lemmy-ui updated.

For Lemmy to have a future, it’s been a long-term goal to ensure that donations can cover the two full-time devs’ living expenses, and possibly add more developers to the co-op. Nutomic worked on various tasks to aid this, including:

  • A redesign of the donation page on join-lemmy.org.
  • A new donation dialog shown directly in the Lemmy web interface.
  • A call for donations which was widely shared and discussed.

Although the goal is not reached yet, it looks like a success as the amount of recurring donations was almost doubled within a few days. It also helped to clarify and resolve some of the reasons why people were unwilling to donate.

You can see the full list of changes for April at the links below:

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    22 hours ago

    Can’t believe only two devs have been carrying lemmy dev for so long.
    Thank you bunches all, and here’s to hoping I’ll be knowledgeable enough to also help sooner than later! :D

  • AdemirAEnglish
    10·
    22 hours ago

    SolninjaA added support for using separate subdomains for federation and web interface.

    This is really cool!!

    with this now the interface will show users from mastodon with their short.domain handle?

    • Nothing4You@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      21 hours ago

      this doesn’t really change anything for how remote users are displayed, it’s a change to properly support hosting lemmy-ui on a different domain than the lemmy backend/api.

      what are you referring to with mastodon short.domain handles?

  • comfy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Great work, that release page lists plenty of neat upgrades.

    and got Peertube federation working again

    Good to hear! I tried to like/upvote a PeerTube video a few weeks ago and couldn’t view the channel.