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scheduled downtime: August 25 at 7 AM GMT [lemmy upgrade, finally] (awful.systems)

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our version of lemmy is old enough that clients like mlem are starting to break due to API drift, so I’m finally upgrading us to the latest stable version of lemmy. this will involve a bit of downtime and potentially a number of breakages; keep an eye out for anything that doesn’t look right after the upgrade and let us know!

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ah, cool. so, themes? the thing that almost every software out there makes as a lightweight pluggable?

not lemmy, no. in lemmy you recompile your app to get 'em. (source)

(edit: there's a special kind of thinking that goes into writing code this manner. this is pluggable (see extra_themes_dir) but consider the thinking that goes into writing code like this. "some bits static", with a maintenance burden and a recompile overhead. it's just absolutely fucking dumb)