My understanding is the current version of lem.ee, hiding red posts on my feed doesn’t work properly, but allegedly the last version does. how do I tell boost to use the old version instead?
My understanding is the current version of lem.ee, hiding red posts on my feed doesn’t work properly, but allegedly the last version does. how do I tell boost to use the old version instead?
Yes. The latest version is 0.9.13, iirc, and most instances have upgraded by now, but during the migration, some servers had features that others didn’t.
For most, this means the extra data gets dropped or ignored, and there weren’t particularly problematic differences in the last big upgrade (most that I saw were database migration issues on the instances themselves). However, if Lemmy has an update that fundamentally changes how federation works, how votes are counted, how security is handled, etc., we may see bigger breaks if people don’t update. The API might be forced to change to such a degree that the original function isn’t even the same.
Devs may try to mitigate migration breakages like that by backporting some of the changes into a patch for older versions, but they may decide not to, either to force people to upgrade (to have a better base upon which to upgrade, for example), or because it would involve an unreasonable amount of work to implement or maintain multiple versions.