@ChristianBundy, just upgraded to that version and am trying it out. So far it is working even though I get a ton of deprecation errors when I start it:

PS C:\Users\andre\scoop\apps\alacritty\current> ssb-server start
ssb-server 14.1.6 C:\Users\andre\.ssb logging.level:notice
my key ID: <just my public key>
WARNING-DEPRECATION: ssb-links not installed as a plugin. If you are using git-ssb, ssb-npm or patc
hfoo please consider installing it
ssb-friends: stream legacy api used
[npm-registry] Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8043. (indexes:0%)
Trace: deprecated api used: ssb-ref.parseAddress.. (indexes:57.0%)
    at Object.parseAddress (C:\Users\andre\scoop\persist\nodejs-lts\bin\node_modules\ssb-server\nod
e_modules\ssb-ref\index.js:96:15)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (C:\Users\andre\scoop\persist\nodejs-lts\bin\node_modules\ssb-server\plug
ins\local.js:55:22)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:189:13)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (C:\Users\andre\scoop\persist\nodejs-lts\bin\node_modules\ssb-server\node
_modules\broadcast-stream\index.js:51:12)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:189:13)
    at UDP.onMessage [as onmessage] (dgram.js:628:8)
************************************************** (ebt:99.8%)

The instabilities I was facing were more of a feeling of strangeness where my ssb-server would spend too long without peering or I would spend too long without seeing new messages. Sometimes it would do hard crashes when viewing some message, or trying to retrieve something. It was a bid odd. It still worked, I just felt I couldn't trust it very much.

Thanks very much for pointing me to that version. I also look forward to trying the rust and go stuff too.