CAPTCHA madness

steddyeddy

Hey guys I'm logging in from England having set up my account when livkng back in Ireland. I'm just writing about an issue that keeps happening when I try to load the Boards website. No matter what device I log into, mobile, laptop or PC, I am asked to perform a CAPTCHA task. I'm asked to complete several picture tasks each time but recently it's getting more complex and recently I have to fill out 7 in a row. Is this normal and is there another way Boards could deal with this?

Faith

I have the same issues, also posting from the UK.

frag420

Same here...posting from UK!

Sully

Part of the BREXIT consequences, I'm afraid!

TallGlass

Work uses an English proxy and it is awfully annoying.

Timberrrrrrrr

I log in (from UK) on wifi and ibhave to fill in captcha, go outside on garden and have to refill in captcha

steddyeddy

Sully wrote: »

Part of the BREXIT consequences, I'm afraid!

But I'm an Irish remainer . Can we not just tick a Brexiter/remainer box and have the Brexiters complete puzzles?

kneemos

Future captchas will request a solution to the border problem.

Boards.ie: Mark

Hey all,

Sorry for the disruption, but Cloudflare kicks in when it notices an uptick in suspicious traffic. It seems that the Captchas were pretty common over the weekend - was getting them myself from within Ireland. Hopefully it will get back to normal today.

TheRiverman

Will there be a backstop agreement on captchas?.Hard or soft captchas

DoctorEdgeWild

Haha, good timing. Just logged on to report the same thing. I feel like I'm now an expert is spotting traffic lights and school buses.

UK, using m.boards.ie if that helps at all. :-)

Beasty

TheRiverman wrote: »

Will there be a backstop agreement on captchas?.Hard or soft captchas

We are currently discussing this with Mary Lou and the Arlene. We hope to have a decision by Xmas - not sure which one though

bkehoe

Been getting the CAPTCHAs an an increasingly unbearable rate as well, also logging in from the UK. Even sometimes when clicking onto a thread it comes up again and I often fail them and give up!

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

The frequency with which Boards requires CAPTCHAs really is ridiculous. Even among sites that use Cloudflare, Boards is exceptional. I don't know of any other site that requires people to complete so many CAPTCHAs so frequently.

Cloudflare security settings can be set to Off, Essentially Off, Low, Medium, High, and I'm Under Attack! What is the setting for Boards? If it's medium or lower, why seemingly is anyone logging in from outside the country being treated as an attacker? And if they are at high or above, why the paranoia?

Faith

I just had to do something like 8 rounds of captchas to get access. This is not okay! Is this captcha situation going to be resolved or should I just give up on boards now?

Timberrrrrrrr

Just did my 29th captcha (yes I've been counting) in under 3 days.

Faith

I just did another 3. Some of the pictures look like they were taken on a Nokia phone in 2001 and I can't quite see if the tiny images have fûcking bicycles in them or not :rolleyes:.

Boards.ie: Mark

Sorry for the inconvenience. We have changed the captchas to JS challenges (the bouncing balls), which should make things more streamlined (and less taxing on users).

We can't promise there won't be captchas (as cloudflare kicks in when it notices an uptick in suspicious traffic) but hopefully things will be considerably smoother.