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Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud to c/lemmyworld
 

The 0.18 version of Lemmy was announced. This will solve many issues.

But we can't upgrade yet because the captcha was removed, and captcha relied on Websockets, which are removed in 0.18 so despite the devs agreeing on my request to add captcha back, this will not be until 0.18.1. Without captcha we will be overrun by bots.

Hopefully this 0.18.1 will be released soon, because another issue is that the newest version of the Jerboa app won't work with servers older than 0.18. So if you're on Lemmy.world, please (temporarily) use another app or the web version.

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[โ€“] kabe 149 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The Dev's stubbornness about captchas is a little baffling. Yes, they're not 100% foolproof but they help.

It's like arguing that we shouldn't have locks on or our doors because a skilled lock picker can get past them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The devs aren't pushing back against captchas, but they're desperately trying to get 0.18 out to resolve a ton of issues. Captchas need to be redone in the code level and no one has done it yet.

[โ€“] phiresky 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Chenz 16 points 1 year ago

That looks promising, hopefully weโ€™ll have an 0.18.1 release later next week

[โ€“] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They agreed to add them back. You can read their comments in OPs link

[โ€“] kabe 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That only happened recently, though. For weeks they were replying to instance admins requests to reinstate captchas with things like "bots have beaten captchas, so they're useless."

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are you talking about? The issue to bring back captchas was only opened 4 days ago!

Captchas were only removed 2 weeks ago, no one spoke up then: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2922

The developers have nothing against captchas. They were the ones who originally built and added the feature: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/1027

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My very first post on Lemmy was a (admittedly out-of-date) rant about the devs stubbornness about the hardcoded bad words filter and their behavior in the relevant GitHub issues. And I had people jumping in the comments defending them, telling me that it was fixed years ago, they're better now, surely that couldn't possibly happen again.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

ETA: and yeah, I know about kbin, I've tried both, kinda waiting to see all the new Android native apps before completely moving over there. Seeing how all this shakes out.

[โ€“] gothicdecadence 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy has a hardcoded profanity/vulgarity filter?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It had, but it was removed about two years ago in release 0.14.0 with the introduction of proper mod tools.

[โ€“] xaxl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin needs to sort out their API and get an app before I'm going to try using it directly.