For the love god, PLEASE STOP with the CAPTCHA.

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@spongy: thanks for the laptop advice. I will be asking a lot of questions when I go shopping for a new one.

@FMX: thanks for the advice re: AdBlocker settings. And yes, a guide like that might be helpful, especially if this persists.

@Cornflake, TallyMan: wish you did have access to the CloudFlare settings. Something as large as this, with this many users, needs multiple administrators with the same "controls" as Alex.

I would agree with that.

I certainly can't be bothered with windows 8, but perhaps a different person might prefer it to Windows 7.
It depends on what you want to use an OS for, I guess.

Here's an article by a guy who prefers Windows 7 to Windows 8, who can explain his preference far better than I can -
http://www.howtogeek.com/145984/why-i-still-use-windows-7-after-a-year-of-trying-to-like-windows-8/

Assumedly so....

I do not believe that my understanding of the WP infrastucture is incorrect.

If Cornflake does have admin access to the Cloudflare settings, then I request that he logs in and disables the Captchas using the method which I suggested ; because they are far too frequent, and are winding lots of people up.

This is a moot point.
CloudFlare was established in 2009, and people have been running phpBB board since the first edition was released in 2000.

The fact that nowadays some people who run phpBB boards make use of Cloudflare is an irrelevance, as many people continue to run phpBB boards without using Cloudflare.

Using Cloudflare is definitely not compulsory for everybody who runs a phpBB board.





Well, I joined back in March and I'm pretty sure WP forum wasn't this glitchy or CAPTCHA-infested back then....




So it would seem.... or more accurately, CAPTCHA CAPTCHA CAPTCHA CAPTCHA CAPTCHA and yet more CAPTCHA.




Seemingly so.




... except that if human eyes often can only read the one nice, straight word... and if the system only needs that to be typed in... then that rather defeats the whole point of it. I've been asking somebody to help me decipher the incoherent word in some of the Captchas, and the other person agrees that some of them are far from legible.

I shall see whether I can get it to accept me only typing in the legible word ; like I said before though, it was making me type in both words previously.


edited to fix dodgy syntax for the quote boxes

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No. It is still insisting that I type in both words.
Either that or I'm ridiculously unlucky.

I just tried ten times to get through the Captcha by typing only one word, before giving up on that idea and struggling my way through both words of the next Captcha.


If you flip a coin ten times, and get heads every single time... then those are the chances of me happening to pick the "one wrong word" every single time, through coincidence.

What's wrong with using Captchas which have pictures, and ask you to identify what it is ?

It's quite annoying indeed. Seems to get worse for me. Started from once a day to almost every post/pm.

I'm guessing that neither of you have direct FTP access to the website (which is what would ne required in order to repair phpBB glitches) ? Because, most likely Alex is the only one with full admin access to the website ?



I used to have landlords like that.... although I guess they were really slumlords....
The last ones I had still haven't managed to get another tenant, even a year after I left their rented property.





I get the impression that Cloudflare is probably designed for websites/forums with much less "internet traffic" than WP has.... especially nowadays, as WP seems to be growing in popularity all the time.

It sounds as though he might have done that.
However, it is also necessary for the implementor to assess the situation from time to time and establish that the software they have chosen to implement continues to function in an appropriate way, and to ensure that they are familiar with any changes to how such implemented software functions.

I'm angry now. I just spent HALF AN HOUR creating a thread with an exceptionally long opening post. I tried to post the thread, and I was asked to fill in a captcha. Then my browser crashed, and the post which took half an hour and quite a bit of research to write was lost. If I weren't redirected to the f*****g CloudFlare page, the thread would've been posted. f**k this. I won't be posting here again until this utter mess is sorted out.

I think there's a glitch in the WP message board (MODERATORS, PLEASE LISTEN). I never have to submit a captcha, and yet it sounds like some of the members have to do it every time. I hope this message doesn't cause this to now happen to me, because I can't read the captchas, I keep having to refresh them, and I still fail (on other sites). What are the "rules" that make some people have to submit them? How do we take a "test" so we don't have to do them?

Urgh.... yet another casualty of the SNAFU that is WP forum.

To use a Brianism..... "Whose leg do you have to hump to get a post made around here ?"

Now I'm getting recaptchas on posts with no quotes or links.

This is ridiculous.

It ate one of my PMs, I've had more CATCHA prompts this morning then I had in all my years on WP.

Are we under that much of a spammer wave?

They don't allow such access for the same reason other companies don't. In the case of the captcha service, they (the captchas) aren't normally tailored to specific domains and instead are more generalized for a multitude of servers and domains by the provider in question. If any access was given to end users to make changes, there would literally be thousands upon thousands of users modifying it at any given time, and more than likely causing a multitude of problems for everyone else from the amount of malfunctions that are inevitable to occur in such a case because the updated system would never be known to any two people modifying it at the same time.

WP is only one out of probably thousands of domains to use cloudflare's captcha service, it wouldn't even be conceivable to host different services for different domains for the sole purpose of end user modification.

The catch-all nature of the service can be hindering at times, yes, but in the end it's the most affordable for the host.
If WP were to create such a system on it's own, admins could modify it at any time, but such a thing requires almost constant mantainence and a rather large storage backup in case of DDOS type attacks (overloading it with information until it shuts down), which any server is potentially susceptible to under the right conditions, especially smaller ones. Cloudflare is equipped to handle such a thing, I can tell you that WP is not (unless Alex has something in the way of a few TBs of data hiding somewhere on this server), which is why they are a good choice for services, as-is basis or not.

I hope that's clarified the reasoning behind why there is no end user modification capability.

Said Nobody....

... ever...

Now I'm being "Captcha'ed" when I send a PM.

This is going to drive away some members.