is the bug with “active” sorting fixed ?
I thought captcha were re enabled on the rc For this but the notes say it’s gone again. Adding one completely stopped botted sign ups for me
Captchas have been restored by a PR shortly before release and almost immediately been removed again by reverting the PR. The PR author has been asked to re-create his PR and then
0.18.0got released without Captchas.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml Thanks for the information here and all the hard work you have put into this release.
Gotta say tho, as the maintainer of Lemmy-Swift-Client, breaking API changes like this without an API version bump, make API development within the community incredibly difficult.
So my question to you would be, what is the purpose of having
v3in the API path, if the true test of API compatibility is the GetServerResponseversionfield? And breaking changes will occur in GetServerResponseversionchanges as opposed to the version in the API path? That doesn’t quite make sense to me.Would love your perspective so I can figure out how to best design the package API to accommodate client developers who might have to contend with multiple server versions.
The lemmy API still hasn’t hit a version 1.0, and should very much be considered beta, with a lot of active and breaking changes. When we do stabilize it, then we can start to make these breaking API changes more solid. The
v3should probably just go away at this point, because we have too much active development and API changes to justify it.What we do on lemmy-js-client, which has its types auto-generated from rust, is use tags that match our lemmy release semver version.
I’m not sure how you built lemmy-swift-client ( I hope its auto-generated from either the rust or lemmy-js-client types), but you could do the same thing: use tags to version it, then applications could use those tagged versions.
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.
I was tracking the Race for Captchas in
0.18.0and I’m pretty surprised how it went in the end.
All Lemmy instances on v0.18.0 are inaccessible with javascript disabled. The only way to privately browse Lemmy instances now is via kbin. I was hoping that Lemmy was going to focus more on privacy with the coming updates. Maybe this will be fixed in v0.18.1?
JavaScript itself has nothing to do with privacy. I assume you think so because you are using Tor Browser at the higest security setting that disables JavaScript entirely?
IMHO just stop using that broken-by-design browser and use a browser extension with a JavaScript allow-list.
