Following this post yesterday, the errors encountered by other admins were sorted and we realized captchas were not enough of a reason to keep people from experince the best version of Lemmy.
We are now on v0.18 with registration applications turned on, this is a temporary requirement until captchas are added back. If you encounter any bugs with the new version please mention them in the comments.
(Clear your cache if the new version doesn’t load for you, should work fine after that.)
Cleared cache using this guide and it didn’t work: https://www.howtogeek.com/664912/how-to-clear-storage-and-site-data-for-a-single-site-on-google-chrome/
I had the exact issue you described but got fixed after clearing. Use a different browser or device to be sure.
Same for me. Simply using Ctrl+F5 was enough to fix it for me on PC.
Turns out I had to give up global cache which sucks a bit. Ty for helping.