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.
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.
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.
One alternative that already exists and has been working well for instances that use it is an application process.
Using an IP in this way has no impact on privacy. Instances already have your IP info as a result of interacting with them.
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?
The server can see your IP when you connect to it and IPs are not sensitive either way. That’s not a privacy issue.
I’ll paste my comment to @[email protected], 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?
How can you tell they’re spam accounts btw?
Small instance, open signups, rapidly growing users. On balance, given the issues others are having, it’s probably bots creating the accounts.
On my instance if you looked in the database they all had gmail emails and all had the same pattern to the email. We were adding 20 users a day, then suddenly had 100 new accounts in an hour. There was a lot of talk from other instance admins seeing the same thing.
On top of that there’s also activity, I saw a server with only 7 posts for 6K users, there’s no way those are real people.
Thank you for your work :)
p.s. test instance names are fantastic! :D
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
The fix for that isnt merged yet, will be in one of the next RCs
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.
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.
Congratulations on the improvements to the protocol and to you both sexy leftist 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.
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
Only ❤️ for you guys!
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.Sorry, we merged someone’s bad PR without testing, we’ll revert it and start another build.
FWIW I tried an hour later and it worked. Not sure if something was fixed in the back end.
Appending the char “!” to the password gives the error “SyntaxError: JSON parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data” - same screenshots posted by @Lodion - that’s on Enterprise (haven’t tried other instances yet).
Removing the ! let me create my user just fine.
Edit: oh just saw mod message, will wait for next build then try again.
Go go!
0.18.0-rc.4is now pushed up.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.
omg yiss!
Is there a full list somewhere of all new features for us to test?
