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.
How about temporarily disabling sign ups until 0.18.1? As more apps update to 0.18 it’ll be annoying to juggle versions.
Anything stopping new members from signing up is going to hurt the adoption of the platform as a whole.
The release candidates for 0.18 were published at an almost daily basis. I think it’s fair to assume .1 won’t take forever.