Posts: 100 Threads: 3 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 3 Likes received: 17 I've only been a member here for just over a week and I was surprised to get a message that I had to change my password to continue using the site. Is that the site's policy? Change passwords every week? Did something happen to instigate this? Can the site admins create a more informative message? The message was so terse I couldn't decide if it was legit or not. (I'm still not sure if it was.) I finally changed it and then changed it again (by following a different a path.) Posts: 4,395 Threads: 280 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 128 Likes received: 1117 precautionary measure from a threat of a hacker. Not normal, this is the second time we did this in over a year. Posts: 33 Threads: 3 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 1 Likes received: 1 the password change is reasonable enough, im really beginning to reject registration at sites that use the google captcha. it was fine when that thing started, its a lot more annoying and tedious these days. i already realise this is probably something no one has any control over, but if this reset becomes a regular thing im not going to keep doing that captcha. i gave up on proboards altogether after 10 minutes of clicking on stupid pictures. thank you for working to keep us secure-- also im not a bot. (i know, thats what all bots say.) Posts: 4,395 Threads: 280 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 128 Likes received: 1117 Dec-19-2017, 05:33 PM (This post was last modified: Dec-19-2017, 05:34 PM by metulburr. Edited 1 time in total.) I dont believe you should have to do the recaptcha when doing the password reset...only when you initially register. I can also say without some form of captcha, recaptcha, or recaptcha2.0 that spam can quickly overtake a forum. IF we didnt have it, the whole forum would be spam. I think recaptcha2 is easier on humans than the old captcha though. It was a pain in the ass to try to identify some of the characters on a captcha form...to the point i would give up on registration on sites. Most of the time recaptcha2 should give a checkbox click, which is ridiculously little effort, but sometimes you get the images, which is a little of a pain, but much better than before. Posts: 7,396 Threads: 287 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 264 Likes received: 1035 Quote:but sometimes you get the images, which is a little of a pain Like click on the squares containing bushes with blueberries on them. Posts: 33 Threads: 3 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 1 Likes received: 1 Quote:I dont believe you should have to do the recaptcha when doing the password reset...only when you initially register. agreed, but it still required me to do so. Quote:I can also say without some form of captcha, recaptcha, or recaptcha2.0 that spam can quickly overtake a forum. IF we didnt have it, the whole forum would be spam. entirely agreed. Quote:I think recaptcha2 is easier on humans than the old captcha though. It was a pain in the ass to try to identify some of the characters on a captcha form...to the point i would give up on registration on sites. i never get just the checkbox click. ever. i dunno why im being picked on here (meaning picking on by google, not the forum.) i always get the pictures-- it took about a minute (longer than most word captchas take, but i know the ridiculous ones that you were talking about) but ive spent like 5-10 minutes on some-- why, i dont know. they used to be easier, im starting to pass registering on sites that require the picture-clicking, just like we both did with unreasonable word captchas in the old days. more of a heads-up than an issue to tackle. nothing to do really. cheers. Posts: 4,395 Threads: 280 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 128 Likes received: 1117 ill check on that. I dont think its suppose to do the captcha on password reset I only get anything than the checkbox click when i repeatedly do something like make 100 accounts or something  Skaperen and ezdev like this post Posts: 33 Threads: 3 Joined: Dec 2017 Reputation: 1 Likes received: 1 thank you. normally when i complain about a design/usability issue it is not a request and often not even aimed at the person im talking to, if you can do something to improve it thats always nice, also above and beyond. its a lot easier to say "well, it is what is." good luck. you said this is the second time this year, so i admit i am thinking about the next time. all the best. Posts: 2,739 Threads: 838 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 11 Likes received: 85 i like the images captcha, it's more effective against mass registration bots. What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
Posts: 2,810 Threads: 36 Joined: Sep 2016 Reputation: 88 Likes received: 342 Dec-20-2017, 02:54 AM (This post was last modified: Dec-20-2017, 02:54 AM by wavic. Edited 1 time in total.) (Dec-20-2017, 02:34 AM)Skaperen Wrote: i like the images captcha, it's more effective against mass registration bots. I am not so sure. Recently I see those captchas to have a top image which tells you what to look for. Well, The image recognition software and algorithms are quite advanced. I imagine how you tell the program to get the top image and search for the same patterns. I know a guy who wrote a Python program to track the car's ID ( ID, number ? ) from a public webcam. It's fast. And the captchas are static images. What are we talking about... :D |
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