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A few weeks passed since my last update, but MaiionChat is now upgraded to Lemmy instance v0.18.3. The upgrade was quick and seamless in the virtual environment with a smaller test database. As expected, the upgrade for the live site was also quick. Aside from the server's CPU resources maxing out processing the much larger postgres database for only the first 3 minutes, everything else was also seamless. The server continues to run as usual, and utilizes slightly less memory compared to previous versions. Release information can be found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.3

For the sake of transparency, I would like to mention the customizations and additions I made to the instance leading to the v0.18.3 upgrade.

There was a time when this instance did not have picture previews or open graph images (og:image). This was a decision I made initially to prevent the server's space from running out. Aside from the occasional image links, the text only experience got