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:

  • Nuxleio@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I just want to say the only reason I didn’t donate sooner were:

    1. I needed a friendly reminder (the lemmy post was that reminder for me) because life got busy
    2. I didn’t know that Lemmy didn’t already generate enough to cover the costs of two developers

    I couldn’t be happier to donate! The work you’re doing is amazing! It’s helped me kick my 15 year long reddit addiction & reminded me of the original promise of the Internet