Active users as of June 25, 2023:
- lemmy.world (48k users): 13554 active users
- lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users
- beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users
- feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users
- sh.itjust.works (6.5k users): 2167 active users
- lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users
Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances!
Don’t upgrade to 0.18.0! It has a lot of issues.
I’ve personally been having a better time with 0.18 on lemmy.ml than with 0.17.4.
What else other than the missing captcha makes it a lot of issues?
Currently there are 15 lemmy-ui bugs open, and 20 lemmy backend bugs open, against 0.18.0.
Upgrading my instance to 0.18.0 has caused a lot of problems. One major issue is the main web UI won’t even load (returns a blank page with just text Server error), unless you manually remove the site’s image icon via a SQL query in the Postgres database. So, upgrade to 0.18.0 at your own risk.
Also, this is not intended as a criticism to anyone. Just a warning that 0.18.0 is a bit unstable and waiting for 0.18.1+ is a safer option for the larger hosted communities (my opinion).
Why not?
No captcha at signup to slow down bots in 0.18. Lemmy.world admin is waiting until it’s added back in to upgrade.
https://lemmy.world/post/469761
Devs will be addressing the submitted captcha fix after the weekend (they said so on GitHub). So I hope 0.18.1 drops early next week. They wanted 0.18 released before 3rd party apps die, so I presume having the largest instance holding back will give them a reason to push it before the end of the week.
I hope it is released soon as well. I’m hoping some of the other open issues are addressed.