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 0.18.0 and I’m pretty surprised how it went in the end.
I don’t know how this works but I think I read somewhere that this version fixes the new post spam on browser, I checked and it’s still the same, when will that be fixed? Is it an instance thing?
I noticed in the web client used on mobile, there would often be new posts flooding in at the top of the page. Maybe a page’s worth at a time. I’m still using web client on mobile on lemmy.ml and haven’t noticed this since the deployment of 0.18 yesterday.
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.
It should still be possible to browse the internet with JS disabled. Especially Free Software should set a high standard to that. It’s understandable that Lemmy devs have too much on their heads now, but let’s not pretend that it’s okay to make websites which aren’t viewable without JS.
That’s a LOT of changes. Kudos to all the people involved.
