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Announcements => Site & Forum Discussion => Topic started by: NorthernLad on August 14, 2018, 04:16:12 PM

Title: capcha on login page
Post by: NorthernLad on August 14, 2018, 04:16:12 PM

Hi Guys,

Just a passing comment - your signup form's captcha is incredibly difficult to decipher, It took me around 5-6 guesses of the text in the image to register.  Each time it fails you also have to re-enter your password and agree to the terms which makes the signup process very un-user friendly.

Thanks
NL

Title: Re: capcha on login page
Post by: kitz on August 14, 2018, 06:57:26 PM

Hi sorry about the difficulty and thanks for your comment.   
It's standard default SMF captcha which comes part of the forum software and I don't even have it set on its highest setting.
We do have quite a few bot attempts which is why I also have the added questions.   
It's a fine balance between trying to keep the forum spam free and yet still being friendly to humans.

I could lower it but am not sure what effect it may have against bots.   I'll give it a try for a week.

Title: Re: capcha on login page
Post by: kitz on November 17, 2021, 04:38:48 AM

Unfortunately I've had to change this back to the previous setting.  At first we were getting the odd few per day but over the past few months it has steadily grown to a substantial amount