Lemmy is now up to 0.18.4 while lemmy.sdf is still on 0.18.2
18.3 brought some major performance enhancements to the backend, fixed many federation issues, and greatly improved hot/active.
18.4 has now fixed the dead-instance phone-home bugs.
Are we going to update? And I mean this question with no bad intent; I love SDF, and am an ARPA member: is this instance dying? I know it’s more work for every service that SDF hosts and lemmy has certainly taken more work than some other services - I don’t want lemmy.sdf to die, but if it’s going to stagnate it would be nice to know so we can gracefully migrate.
I agree. I have no idea what it takes to run publicly accessible services over the long haul. Hell, I can barely keep my sorry-ass website up!
I know that lemmy itself is pretty new, but I have to assume that the people who’ve been keeping SDF alive and functional for over 35 years know what they’re doing.