Database Rollback & 0.18.2

Unfortunately we had an issue updating to the latest version of Lemmy. This caused database corruption and we had to roll back to a backup that was unfortunately from 2 days ago!

An abundance of caution in the wrong error resulted in me wanting to push this change out to help with the exploit relating to custom emoji. As other instances were attacked, I didn't want reddthat to fall to the same issue.

I am so sorry !

I have since updated our deployment scripts to automatically take a back up before all updates, as well as investigating why our cron backups didn't work as we expected them too.

We also lost all new accounts that were created over the past 2 days, all new posts, and all subscriptions. I'm very sorry about that and hope that you will reregister with those account details again, repost the memes and pictures that make our server great.

The good news is that we have updated to the latest version of Lemmy and everything is back to "normal".

Fixing Deployments

I'm going to use some of our money for a dedicated development server as our current deployment testing is clearly lacking.
Unfortunately that will have to wait until the weekend when I have some extra time to put into developing these new processes.

Tiff