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.

  • Kabe
    link
    149
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      631 year ago

      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.

    • CosmicSploogeDrizzle
      link
      471 year ago

      They agreed to add them back. You can read their comments in OPs link

      • Kabe
        link
        141 year ago

        That only happened recently, though. For weeks they were replying to instance admins requests to reinstate captchas with things like “bots have beaten captchas, so they’re useless.”

          • Kabe
            link
            -25
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            My mistake, I understood admins had been asking for the return of captchas as soon as they were removed.

            Still, it took a few days for the devs to agree to reinstate them, which, combined with the general tone seem in that second link, is what gave me the impression that they were reluctant to do so.

            • @fubo
              link
              21
              edit-2
              1 year ago

              In open-source projects and communities, it’s often a bad idea to go around looking for (or inventing) conflicts among contributors. It can come across as drama-seeking or trolling.

              In software engineering in general, a common reason that a desirable feature has not been written yet is that the people who know & work on the code only have so many hands, and so many hours in the day, and there are other things that also need doing.

              This service is undergoing rapid development. Spam & abuse problems are things that folks who have run Internet services before are well aware of. It’s not like anyone is going to give up and let spam bots ruin the thing they’re building.

              I doubt anyone wants to build a service that becomes 95+% spam & abuse, ya know?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      9
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      My very first post on Lemmy was a (admittedly out-of-date) rant about the devs stubbornness about the hardcoded bad words filter and their behavior in the relevant GitHub issues. And I had people jumping in the comments defending them, telling me that it was fixed years ago, they’re better now, surely that couldn’t possibly happen again.

      I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

      ETA: and yeah, I know about kbin, I’ve tried both, kinda waiting to see all the new Android native apps before completely moving over there. Seeing how all this shakes out.

  • @figaro
    link
    611 year ago

    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.

    • Peetabix
      link
      301 year ago

      Sync for Lemmy can’t come quick enough

    • br3d
      link
      fedilink
      221 year ago

      I’m trying them all. As of today, Connect for Lemmy seems to be working the best

        • @AnonLordo
          link
          17
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Connect is great, but take a look at Liftoff. It’s even better. I think we’ll see better apps than reddit ever had soon.

          Edit: Releases since it’ not on F-Droid or Playstore yet.

          Edit: fixed link to releases.

          • RiotRick
            link
            4
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Liftoff has no way to change font size yet. I find the text too small for easy reading. Trying all the apps at moment. Jerboa is fine, but currently cannot login until lemmy.world is updated. Connect seems to work ok. Basically they are all still a work in progress, but usable.

          • @florge
            link
            41 year ago

            Btw you’re releases link goes to the 0.9.6 release which is still lemmynade

          • @notExactlyI20
            link
            31 year ago

            Been using it for a while now. Feels great for being a WIP app but there are still some hiccups (can’t suscribe to communities that aren’t on the same instance as my account as an example). Prob will use both Jerboa and Liftoff

      • @florge
        link
        41 year ago

        Really liking the look of summit, but it’s lacking a lot of features still.

      • @Duchess
        link
        31 year ago

        thanks for the rec! connect is working great for me

    • @visualfeast
      link
      61 year ago

      How does it compare to wefwef.app ? I’ve been using it a couple of days and it’s been pretty sweet so far. Found it on r/apolloapp.

      • @figaro
        link
        41 year ago

        I just checked this out. Until a better native app is created, I feel like this is by far the best choice for using the site on mobile. Good find 👍

      • @sideone
        link
        11 year ago

        wefwef.app

        This looks really nice, but doesn’t look like it has any mod tools.

    • @Avigrace
      link
      41 year ago

      Thunder on Android is the best of all the ones I’ve tried, Adaptive Icon and Material You support so feels very modern. It’s a newer app but has a nice clean layout and development is happening fast.

  • @jennwiththesea
    link
    571 year ago

    Thanks for keeping the bots out! I’m still successfully using Jerboa, btw.

      • kratoz29
        link
        131 year ago

        I’m and it works with lemmy.world, I still get the disclamer about Lemmy version, but still work regardless, what is it happening here?

        • @DoctorTYVM
          link
          41 year ago

          Try logging out and then logging back in on lemmy.world

          • kratoz29
            link
            131 year ago

            If that locks me out I won’t.

      • @kadu
        link
        9
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The new version from GitHub will give a warning, but mostly works with an outdated Lemmy version. That’s how I’m typing this very comment.

        It does have a few actions that result in an immediate crash on outdated servers, but posting, commenting, following communities and reading notifications work.

        Oh, and you must be logged in already. New logins do not work.

      • @Dandroid
        link
        71 year ago

        I am. It gives me the warning and crashes a lot, but it works a little.

        • @OtakuAltair
          link
          7
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          It crashes far too much without 0.18 for me; resorted to using the web view.

        • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
          link
          111 year ago

          Probably because you’re already logged in from the previous version? On a clean install it won’t be able to login, it will literally tell you that the instance needs to be at 0.18.0.

          • LUHG
            link
            61 year ago

            Ahh. That’s really not good. In a time where we are expanding we have broken captcha resorting in instances protecting themselves from bots breaking the best Android app. Wonderful.

      • @Noedel
        link
        31 year ago

        I am, but here we are

      • @Panda
        link
        21 year ago

        Is the version on GitHub more recent than the one in the Play Store? The changelog in the Play Store said the update would make Jerboa ready for 0.18 and that’s the version I have installed.

        • @KazuyaDarklight
          link
          11 year ago

          It was old (33) last evening when I checked. This morning it’s up-to-date, but I’m obviously not applying it.

  • @OnkelCannabia
    link
    371 year ago

    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.

    • @andobando
      link
      171 year ago

      This will go away with dropping websockets

    • @Anemervi
      link
      141 year ago

      Try changing the 1 at the end of the url to 0 as a workaround.

      • @acchariya
        link
        41 year ago

        I can’t see how keeping we sockets open for everyone on the site is scalable- if it were me I’d want to be aggressively caching everything possible

  • LimitedWard
    link
    321 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      22
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Quoth semver 2.0.0:

      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.

      • @impulse
        link
        201 year ago

        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.

  • godless
    link
    291 year ago

    Jerboa asks for 0.18 to be installed, but works with 0.17.4 mostly without issues.

  • @Deathstalkr1
    link
    251 year ago

    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.

    • @Restaldt
      link
      10
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      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

      • @vaanam
        link
        3
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        deleted by creator

      • @Deathstalkr1
        link
        31 year ago

        I have a similar option in Firefox that I’m currently using. Thanks for telling there’s other options, though.

      • @RookiA
        link
        11 year ago

        Sad that firefox seemingly cant do that ;(

  • @krayj
    link
    25
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

    • @phx
      link
      231 year ago

      Yeah, mine complained about the server version but from what I can see everything still works ok.

  • bquinlan
    link
    241 year ago

    Ouch. I understand exactly how things like that happen, but it is unfortunate. Hope it’s resolved quickly.

    There is a tremendous amount of pressure on everyone in the development/admin chain right now because of the insane influx of new users. (I’m one of them.) It amazes me how well everyone has been handling it. And I am grateful to all of you!

  • @Rick
    link
    231 year ago

    I just updated and it gave me an error on jerboa but it still seems to be working fine

    • MrNemobody
      link
      61 year ago

      As long as you keep logged in.

    • @ribwich
      link
      41 year ago

      As a new user it won’t let me login to this server

    • @Master
      link
      41 year ago

      Yep. Got the warning but works just fine.

    • SanguinePar
      link
      21 year ago

      Likewise, hopefully it continues to work!

  • @KazuyaDarklight
    link
    20
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    @[email protected] 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

    • @veroxii
      link
      31 year ago

      Whoa. That’s not ideal.

  • @wit
    link
    18
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Damn, that sucks. Is manual approving + email not enough for the time being?

    EDIT: I see that in the GitHub issue you linked, you answer this question. TLDR: No, it is not enough it seems.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        111 year ago

        They were removed because they don’t work with the new system, not because someone felt like removing it. If someone volunteers to add them back, they’ll be back

          • @minimar
            link
            11
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Because it addresses a number of critical bugs. Why is nobody in this thread reading the update announcement? They explain themselves well there.

            @[email protected] maybe link to it in this post as it’d probably clear up a lot of confusion.

            • RuudOPMA
              link
              71 year ago

              The first link in my post is to the release blog.

              • @minimar
                link
                21 year ago

                Oh fuck you’re right lmao, sorry

      • @wit
        link
        71 year ago

        I understand. It would only be until captchas are back in the release (i.e. 0.18.1). I only suggested this because 0.18 fixed some nasty annoyances.

  • Synapse
    link
    171 year ago

    Alternatively to Jerboa, it’s possible to use the web site as a contained web-app, using Firefox on Android.

    Firefox - Open in app

    • @Solo
      link
      121 year ago

      Thanks for showing me this. It worked on chrome too.

    • @phx
      link
      51 year ago

      Q: When you do that, does it somehow segregate the session/cookies from the rest of your browsing with the browser

      • Synapse
        link
        11 year ago

        Sorry, I have no idea about that.