For accuracy, it’s not just about the admins being busy, 0.18.0 removed the signup captcha, which has been crucial for preventing massive bot signups into instances, some number of instances can’t upgrade without that critical downside. The plan is for the captcha to be reintroduced in 0.18.1, so we’re all waiting for that.
Because it was implemented using WebSockets, which was torn out for 0.18. They need to reimplement a captcha using HTTP instead. Not the most difficult job or anything, just didn’t make the cut for 0.18 in the interests of getting it out there.
EDIT: I’m wrong, just double-checked github after reading what @[email protected] said. See below for his comment or here for the discussion on github.
For accuracy, it’s not just about the admins being busy, 0.18.0 removed the signup captcha, which has been crucial for preventing massive bot signups into instances, some number of instances can’t upgrade without that critical downside. The plan is for the captcha to be reintroduced in 0.18.1, so we’re all waiting for that.
Anyone know why Captcha was removed?
Because it was implemented using WebSockets, which was torn out for 0.18. They need to reimplement a captcha using HTTP instead. Not the most difficult job or anything, just didn’t make the cut for 0.18 in the interests of getting it out there.EDIT: I’m wrong, just double-checked github after reading what @[email protected] said. See below for his comment or here for the discussion on github.
I found this topic that discusses switching to HTTP. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2841#issuecomment-1535469357
What was WebSockets being used for (I see references to live updates)?