The Dev's stubbornness about captchas is a little baffling. Yes, they're not 100% foolproof but they help.
It's like arguing that we shouldn't have locks on or our doors because a skilled lock picker can get past them.
The devs aren't pushing back against captchas, but they're desperately trying to get 0.18 out to resolve a ton of issues. Captchas need to be redone in the code level and no one has done it yet.
someone has done it, there's a PR here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3289
That looks promising, hopefully weโll have an 0.18.1 release later next week
They agreed to add them back. You can read their comments in OPs link
Ok so guys, I appreciate the devs of Jerboa for doing what they do, but I am absolutely switching to another app immediately when something else decent shows up.
Sync for Lemmy can't come quick enough
I'm trying them all. As of today, Connect for Lemmy seems to be working the best
I just updated and it gave me an error on jerboa but it still seems to be working fine
If you already Jerboa installed and set up and working then upgraded it in place, it seems to continue working fine with the 'outdated' version of lemmy.
That fact indicates that Jerboa is needlessly and overly sensitive with its startup checks when installing fresh and attempting to connect to a lemmy instance. I consider this a flaw with Jerboa.
Unfortunately, on my phone, the previous version of Jerboa always just crashed instantly on startup. That bug was fixed in the newest version of Jerboa, but I was never able to get Jerboa running enough previously to set it with a user account and preferred Lemmy instance.
Yeah, mine complained about the server version but from what I can see everything still works ok.
Biggest concern for me is the broken auto scrolling/updating. I can't use this site properly as long as the list of topics doesn't stay in place long enough for me to finish reading the headline.
Hopefully after this is fixed I'll start contributing.
This will go away with dropping websockets
ELI5?
there's a couple of points here
note : the site version 0.18 is already out for the main Lemmy instance, which is lemmy.ml, but lemmy.world (where we are now) is gonna wait for version 0.18.1
I'm using Jerboa and everything seems to be working fine. Edit: Jerboa started playing up mainly crashing on opening it. Binned it off and now using Connect
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.
I'm currently using the app called lemmy connect without issues.
Yeah it's not bad, I prefer jerboa (really I'm waiting for sync) but connect works fine
Lemmy.world is running Lemmy version 0.17.4 right now (check the bottom of any Lemmy instance and it'll tell you what version is running). The new version fixes a lot of things, but lemmy.world can't upgrade to that new version yet because it'll be overrun by bot accounts. We have to wait for the next version and skip this update because that has the protections for bot accounts.
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.
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.
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.
Captcha has been merged https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3289#issuecomment-1609087178 And 0.18.1 RC1 has been tagged https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.1-rc.1
Here is a link to the current state of captcha re-implementation: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3289
This request was reopened after it was merged prematurely. You can read the preceding discussion here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3249
Lemmy Devs have agreed to add it back, so I dont thing it will be long.
Alternatively to Jerboa, it's possible to use the web site as a contained web-app, using Firefox on Android.
Thanks for showing me this. It worked on chrome too.
@ruud@lemmy.world: 0.18.1-rc1 is out with captchas: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.1-rc.1
Jerboa asks for 0.18 to be installed, but works with 0.17.4 mostly without issues.
it crashes constantly for me now.
same for me.
@ruud@lemmy.world Dodged bullet anyway, v18 2FA doesn't make people confirm that their app is configured correctly by asking for a code, as is tradition. It just gives them their QR/Key and locks them into 2FA immediately. If they botch adding it to their app they are locked out. And I hear the code currently being generated is silently incompatible with Authy, so those people end up SOL even if they do everything right.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3309 / https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3325
Thanks for keeping the bots out! I'm still successfully using Jerboa, btw.
Appreciate you waiting for the 18.1 upgrade
Thank you for posting this explanation.
So that's why Jerboa crashes as soon as I log in.
Moved to Connect, happy with that.
For now i made a shortcut on my phone's home screen to this lemmy instance to act as a quasi lemmy client, works pretty well for the time being.
Lemmy is a progressive web app and can be installed directly
Heres a link to the instructions to install pwas from google Install pwa
... so i read the instructions and its not too helpful. Open lemmy in chrome on android then hit the 3 dots in the top right and near/above the option to open the desktop site you should see an install lemmy button
Thank you for the info and keeping on top of this :) have a nice weekend
Thanks for being so on top of this.
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