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Lemmy 0.18 is ready for testing (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by nutomic@lemmy.ml to c/announcements@lemmy.ml
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The new major version of Lemmy is now ready, and we need your help with testing. Most importantly it uses HTTP for API requests now, which is much more efficient than websocket. Additionally Two-factor-auth is supported. There are also countless other improvements and bug fixes.

You can register on any of the following servers to start testing, no approval required. You can post to your hearts content to find out if anything is broken. The test instances only federate with each other to avoid affecting production instances with spam.

If you encounter any bugs that aren't present in 0.17, open an issue and mention in the title that it happened with a release candicate version. Over the next days we will publish new RC versions to fix bugs that will invariably pop up.

Instance admins can try the new version by using Docker images dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.18.0-rc.2 and dessalines/lemmy:0.18.0-rc.1. Make sure that working backups are in place. For production instances its better to wait at least some days for the major issues to be fixed.

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Peeps, I am seeing some really worrying trends on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list. Many instances are quickly filling up with thousands of spam accounts which will soon be unleashed on the threadiverse. While bots can bypass captchas, they at least limit the simplest scripts. We are going to face this really really soon https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/87753

Can we at least add support for disabling VPNs, or using some other captcha solution like recaptcha? IP rate limiting is useless with VPNs, and email verification is more trivially bypassed than the current captchas.

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I like the ideas of good captchas or text applications to join. However, using one's IP kinda goes against the idea of privacy. I'd prefer if we find alternatives.

[-] Faresh@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

One alternative that already exists and has been working well for instances that use it is an application process.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 2 points 1 year ago

Using an IP in this way has no impact on privacy. Instances already have your IP info as a result of interacting with them.

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I see your point. What if I use VPNs with a killswitch? —meaning that I can only ever connect to the internet through my VPN. What if someone is avoiding surveillance from their government? Should they disable their killswitch and risk them finding out they're part of something 'political' like Lemmy?

[-] 0xD@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The server can see your IP when you connect to it and IPs are not sensitive either way. That's not a privacy issue.

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'll paste my comment to @muddybulldog@mylemmy.win, which also applies in this situation: I see your point. What if I use VPNs with a killswitch? —meaning that I can only ever connect to the internet through my VPN. What if someone is avoiding surveillance from their government? Should they disable their killswitch and risk them finding out they're part of something 'political' like Lemmy?

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I would also imagine some tooling to make it easier to remove spam accounts might be helpful, especially if they start acting up.

Additionally, even once spam bot users have been banned or bounced by failed email verification or whatever, they continue toward the user count of the instance. Not really a functional problem, but the growth of lemmy is garnering some attention, and with the bot account explosion, this growth looks astounding.

It may become a rather bad look once lemmy’s user count is basically seen to be all spam bots.

So maybe some way to adjust user counts? I’ve seen something like this in the GitHub issues I think.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

See, eg: https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741

A bot reporting on the growth of lemmy has ceased posting because the numbers are clearly bloated and wrong.

[-] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

How can you tell they're spam accounts btw?

[-] scientiam@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

A bit off topic, but can something be done about the power mods? I see a few users already forking every subreddit trying to ensure they remain a mod. No user can meaningfully manage 50-100+ communities.

Please consider capping the limit to 20 or less. First-mover advantage is huge, so starting up a community down the road to prevent this consolidation of privileges is likely out of the question.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you get a bad mod, you can always move to a community on another instance. That's one of the advantages of federation.

[-] wit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Name and shame.

[-] DonDino@mujico.org 3 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on the improvements to the protocol and to you 2 leftist sexy pimps for keeping the FOSS philosophy alive.

On behalf of the Mujican community, I send you a fraternal hug and we reiterate that we are with you in whatever is needed, wherever the fediverse takes us.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Trying to register a pre-existing username/password still doesn't return a proper correct error, but at least it returns an error instead of spinning endlessly

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The fix for that isnt merged yet, will be in one of the next RCs

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3093

[-] stylishboar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Navigating to a different page scrolls all the way to the bottom of the page. I assume it’s part of some feature to remember the previous position (i.e., when navigating back), but I don’t think it should apply when using the pagination navigation. I’m on mobile.

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Posted this on Martrix... but receiving this error on all three instances on clicking the "Sign Up" button after entering my details:


edit: Also DS seems to require admin approval for new signups.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, we merged someone's bad PR without testing, we'll revert it and start another build.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

omg yiss!

[-] citizen67@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we please get the 10K char post limit raised to 50K or even 100K chars in v0.18? Many mods are desperate to get their wikis/guides ported from reddit and this has been a showstopping issue.

[-] bojaber@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is a UI issue. As a temporary solution, you can modify the post (maxlength) using your browser's dev tools until lemmy devs implement a fix.

[-] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Report from a tester that "Sign Up" with duplicate username or email is producing JSON errors and not a proper error message: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1356

[-] PlasmaK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I hope that in future versions you will be able to use lemmy without javascript, or at least will be able to read posts without it. I know that everyone uses js monstrosities nowadays, but this seems like a project born out of care and not out of need to ship product under a deadline.

I don't demand for people to drop everything and work on it, just hope that this is kept in mind in future.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

0.18.0-rc.4 is now pushed up.

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A random note- federation, is being very weird for this particular server.

│ 2023-06-21T14:16:09.127573Z  WARN activitypub_federation::core::activity_queue: Queueing activity https://lemmyonline.com/activities/follow/d6d4fccb-c1e3-40ea-918b-6426d3080b3f to https://lemmy.world/inbox for retry after failure with status 502 Bad Gateway: <html>       │
│ <head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     │
│ <body>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          │
│ <center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       │
│ <hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)</center>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      │
│ </body>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         │
│ </html>

(Also- I can't actually see replies to this, due to... federation acting very weird with this particular server...)

Also- Is, there a changelog available for the upcoming 0.18 release?

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Is there a full list somewhere of all new features for us to test?

[-] ddarkjedie@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

!linux@lemmy.ml

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

frivolous critique, but using Star Trek series names for release candidate testing instances but not having “the next generation” seems like a missed opportunity.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They are Star Trek vessels (or bases).

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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