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Lemmy v0.18.0 Release (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I really appreciate the work that you're doing but...

Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them.

What the hell? Another bad default where newbies will continue to launch instances attracting 10k+ bot signups per day and new users will keep getting disgusted by Lemmy if they land on one of those spammy instances. Making captchas a default should have been a priority and I'm sure no one would have complained if the 0.18 release was postponed to make that happen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The feed desperately needed a fix, so I'm glad they pushed it out. But agreed, they should be prioritizing methods to reduce spam and bots in the next release, even if they need to push out a relatively feature-sparse version first

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was tracking the Race for Captchas in 0.18.0 and I'm pretty surprised how it went in the end.

https://lemmy.world/comment/451026

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I definitely would've... it was basically impossible to subscribe to communities on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml from smaller instances before 0.18.0, and after lemmy.ml updated that's no longer an issue.