Eternity's captcha is terrebile

[sergioj]

Yesterday I was trying to subscribe in Eternity's page and I tried at least 10 times. The captachas are terrible. Fortunately today I only needed to try 3 times... please avoid invoking the dark ones with your captachas.

 

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[Blarghagh]

Hah, not really Obsidian specific because the captcha's are automized but I share your concern. It's only a matter of time the randomized captchas form a sequence that awaken great Cthulhu.

[Snake Eater]

I've been inputting the correct captcha and 10/10 times it said that it was wrong. I've given up on creating an account.

[Fionavar]

Snake Eater, are you trying to access your account here: https://eternity.obsidian.net/. PM me and I will do what I can to help you get access.

[babaganoosh13]

Hah, not really Obsidian specific because the captcha's are automized but I share your concern. It's only a matter of time the randomized captchas form a sequence that awaken great Cthulhu.

Fact: The captchas we've been typing all of these years that seem like misspellings is actually R'lyehian without the apostrophes.

[Helz]

For some reason I thought I was the only one who had trouble with those ****ing things.  Seriously, I hate them.

[Reventine]

Very rarely if ever have I ever managed to get a Captcha to work the first time or even the third time.

[Anaeme]

What is Captcha?

[Darren Monahan]

Doh Captcha...! Yeah, we're using Google's reCaptcha, which is what the forums use (and I agree, they're a pain in the you know what) but I unfortunately had to put that on the Eternity site as well so that the bazillion spambots don't get a sneaky back way in to the forums to post lots of junk here.

 

I'm hopeful the forum software we use will move away from using it to something easier for us humans to actually use, and I'll move us to that too if that happens.

 

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience of it - it's annoying that it's even necessary.

[Azrayel]

Doh Captcha...! Yeah, we're using Google's reCaptcha, which is what the forums use (and I agree, they're a pain in the you know what) but I unfortunately had to put that on the Eternity site as well so that the bazillion spambots don't get a sneaky back way in to the forums to post lots of junk here.

 

I'm hopeful the forum software we use will move away from using it to something easier for us humans to actually use, and I'll move us to that too if that happens.

 

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience of it - it's annoying that it's even necessary.

 

Have y'all considered a suite of randomized questions we should be able to figure out, like "Finish this phrase: Pillars of _______"?  I know lots of people turn to that over Captcha but iGuess it runs the risk of someone really wanting into your system and finding out all the answers.