Jolla stepped up: @flypig and @kende fixed up the sailfish-webview component that we need for reCAPTCHA to show correctly. I have published this patch on OpenRepos. After installing this, alpha.8 should work fine for registration of new accounts. 
For working Whisperfish installations, there’s no reason to install this patched version.
Meanwhile, @ichthyosaurus has been working on the UI (you won’t recognise Whisperfish anymore, I promise!) and I’ve been working on getting the database in a more modern state, such that we can finally implement UUID. Meanwhile, Gabriel has been implementing GroupsV2 in the back-end, so we’re getting perspective on that too. Our move to Rust is starting to pay off with large margins! 
(I’m working on getting the i486 and aarch64 versions out there; feel free to send me a reminder if it’s not there by tonight)