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Jerboa app and Lemmy 0.18 (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[–] vanontom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I first thought my Jerboa was fine (despite the popup warning about version), since I could browse a bit without it obviously exploding. But no, it crashes regularly now (closes, no warning or messages).

I don't understand why a Lemmy update would be considered for release that removes security features like captcha support. (Especially during this time of high rates of signups, and well known bot wave in some instances.)

Combined with Jerboa update that needs the Lemmy update, and popularity of instances that need captcha, it's unfortunately causing a mess for many users.

[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

yeah i agree. This setup is really dumb. I just joined and this took way too much fiddling already for new 'simple' reddit users. Helps i'm used to linux.