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Futurist Jim Carroll

I am in a stunned state of shock that it worked.

I was ready to abandon Mastodon. What a fuck up of an upgrade.

Can some folks let me know if they see this message as an additional test to see if the changes took.

#mastoadmin #admin #selfhost #Selfhosting

15 comments
Futurist Jim Carroll

@vees Wow. Good to know. What a messed up upgrade process.

Rob Carlson

@jimcarroll What happened? (If its in a previous post just let me know)

Futurist Jim Carroll

@vees The v 4.3.0 Mastodon upgrade is a bit of a dogs breakfast.

Rob Carlson

@jimcarroll I'm in the beta2 and don't remember any major issues

Futurist Jim Carroll

@vees

I consider myself fairly Linux/geek conversant, but the docs were decidely lacking in guidance on Ruby and Node upgrades, other than to say they were necessary. So it was a process of going through steps, geenerating errors, chasing down the errors, etc etc.

Just not terribly friendly.

Rob Carlson

@jimcarroll To be fair, the rest of my week is *also* filled with undocumented Node and Ruby platform updates, so maybe it just blended in with the rest of the noise

Futurist Jim Carroll

@vees Mine involved going out and talking to a large group of hungover people (that's what i do as a keynote speaker with a morning talk), navigating airports, walking a large room of 70+ executives through AI, and a 2 hour conference call with the PMO office of the UAE for an upcoming event talking about content. So maybe going through a hair raising upgrade process to end my week sort of stood out!

Jan DytrychπŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@jimcarroll Yes, it obviously worked out. I did upgrade to v4.3 today, too. It was not bad at all. Worth it!

david

@jimcarroll I see your message and glad you will be staying here!

@infosec_jcp πŸˆπŸƒ done differently

@jimcarroll

Yeppp πŸ‘

I'd turn the hover link stuff off. It's annoying and just gets in the way is my suggestion post upgrade.

Vervain

@jimcarroll I also found this upgrade to be a pretty awful experience, and I'd say I've got intermediate skills in Linux. Good luck to a beginner trying to get into self hosting this app 😭

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