I’d imagine it’s because it’s a hobby project for the admin. It can be a pita to keep on top of stuff like this.
also who cares
Everyone should care?
in general, the user population is not very well concerned over the sub version of the instance they are using. that is an admin function and worry.
Unless there is a compelling feature, or security issue, there is no rush to upgrade. Let the bugs get ironed out
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If I remember right, there was a pretty big change in how pictrs(photo management) worked with lemmy after 0.19.3. There were a few breaking changes and Postgres updates that would take an instance down for a while as well. Not sure if that’s the reason why but it made my instance stay on 0.19.3 for longer than it should have.
Some instances like lemmy.world values stability over bleeding edge, and 0.19.3 has been stable for them. They do plan to upgrade to something newer eventually, it’s just that every migration carries a risk of something going wrong.
Yeah I used to upgrade immediately but there were always just a few bugs. Now I wait a couple months before taking the plunge
I imagine it’s similar to an enterprise not using Windows update. If it’s stable and no exploits have been identified then why rock the boat?
People who did upgrade would have found regressions in several of those versions.
We’re on 0.19.8 so just one version behind that I need to get around to updating, but before that there were a string of versions with known issues.
Lemmy is not even version 1 yet, it’s risky to update to a new version straight away.
