I'm planning on upgrading lemmy to v0.18.0 tonight, probably around 9pm CDT. So there will be a bit of downtime, but I don't think it should take too long.
I know no one likes to talk about it because they think it looks cheap or desperate but I'll say it anyway.
SUPPORT YOUR LEMMY INSTANCE
I believe and it's my opinion that we should all normalize paying just a little bit to our instance operators to keep their service running. They have to pay costs for maintaining services and running hardware, the costs aren't much for a small instance but the costs grow as the system becomes popular with more users and more active users.
The more we normalize giving just a bit to our instance, the better protected they will become from burning out administrators, managers and owners who pay for the things that keep this engine running.
It's great to see all the changes they're making and that the devs are listening to community feedback. Looks like the community is also helping out a lot with all the shoutouts in that post!
HTTP API instead of Websocket
Super excited about this one. The live updates in the comments is kind of neat, but it makes trying to browse the All tab basically impossible.
I didn't see it mentioned - have they fixed the weird Hot/Active bug in this release?
I didn’t see it mentioned - have they fixed the weird Hot/Active bug in this release?
From what I've been able to see using lemmy.ml (they are on 0.18 already), the sorting seems to be fixed, hot/active works as expected, and there are other sorting options available, too.
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.
Is there any concern about losing captchas? Seems like the bot situation is still rampant at this point. (Shouldn't be long though for it to get added again https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3289)