Does this happen in the latest version, v0.0.36-alpha? I’d also like to point out the full version name includes the phrase “alpha”. This is not a fully released product and will contain bugs.

You make it sound like there was a pull request that deliberately changed the functionality of the voting system when it’s most likely just a bug. The main developer of the app also has to maintain the back-end code for all of Lemmy itself as well as the web interface. There’s no need to be so accusatory on an alpha release of an app, a bit of respect goes a long way.