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.

  • LimitedWard@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I know these are early-adopter pain points, but I think if Lemmy is really gonna take off, the devs need to get serious about backward compatibility and ensuring backend upgrades don’t completely break major instances/clients. IMO switching from websocket to HTTP should have been treated as a breaking change with a new major version release and a more controlled rollout period for this exact reason.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      0·
      1 year ago

      Quoth semver 2.0.0:

      Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

      “Semver proper” only starts at version 1.0.0:

      Version 1.0.0 defines the public API. The way in which the version number is incremented after this release is dependent on this public API and how it changes.

      • impulse@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is important. Many people (and news outlets for that matter) consider Lemmy a product, when it really is very much an on-going early stage development effort.

        It’s amazing how well everything works already, but nothing should be considered stable at this point.