for some reason this was removed by a mod on ml with no indication as to why it was removed...

There should be a dedicated post every time a new version is released so people can ask questions about bugs\issues they encounter when upgrading their lemmy instance. The support community barely has any activity and theres never an official thread for the latest upgrade. The upgrade instructions are usually vague and then you have to go to matrix to ask questions and nothing is organized and cant be search on search engines.

For example im trying to upgrade from .18.5 to the latest (.19.3) but the ansible instructions are:

• git pull && git checkout 1.4.0
• Read Pictrs’ Configuration Changes
• Amend your vars.yml file to respect the new changes

It doesn’t give any details to where I might find the vars.yml file and it doesnt give an example file of what the file should look like after the correct changes are made.

EDIT: if anyone has the same issue. the issue was that the vars.yml file isnt on the server its on your local machine you run ansible from. located in /(domain)/lemmy-ansible/inventory/host_vars/(domain)/

It’s very strange that a platform that has the best ui for finding fixes to issues etc recommends people go to a separate chat platform to ask for questions that will presumably be asked multiple times since its so difficult to keep track of stuff.

Can we please have an official Lemmy Upgrade thread when a new version is released instead of relying on Matrix?