They killed captcha support in 0.18, which basically negates one of the methods to stop the bots… so if we upgrade, we will likely need to email verification until 0.18.1 is released OR stay on 0.17.4 until 0.18.1 is released where they’ve promised to bring it back.
Current Voyager is broken with 0.17.4. I assume there are still upgrade blockers?
Looks like 0.18.1 was released yesterday and I think it re-adds captcha.
The release notes recommend to wait until 0.18.1 if you rely on captchas
There don’t seem to be any major features in 0.18.0 so I think we should stay
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off topic: I just need to thank you for asking your community before making changes (imagine the world if u/spez asked the reddit community if the API should be monetized)
I suggest we wait until we have new captcha.
I don’t like enter email and have mod manual verified. I strongly believe that Lemmy need to be open.
And captcha solve the problem of bot and spam.