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Well, I just signed up. Not sure if I'll be active here, but I always like to support forums over social media sites and other corporate silos. That said, if I
by CM30 8y ago
Well, I just signed up. Not sure if I'll be active here, but I always like to support forums over social media sites and other corporate silos.
That said, if I can give you a bit of advice:
Change that captcha on the registration page. It's really annoying to decipher, and likely doesn't do all that much to stop bots.
Instead, get a few questions and answers set up, and make them forum specific. Like, what startup aggregator is Hacker News associated with? What's FANG mean? What language are the frameworks React, Vue and Angular written in?
In other words, stuff a dedicated community member would know/could easily look up, but which a bot might not want to bother with.
That's much better to stop spam, and less annoying than figuring out what letters and numbers are in a captcha.
Still, hope the forum works out well!
- dchuk 8y agoThanks for signing up and thanks for the feedback! I agree that that captcha sucks, but it's the default so I left it for now. I'll add all this to my todo list!
- RealityVoid 8y agoI have a different problem in that the captcha will not get validated for me! I tried registering, but it seems that no matter how many times I try the captcha code shwos invalid. I'm not a bot, I swear! :)
- dchuk 8y agoDamn, sorry to hear this. Email me at me@dchuk.com and let me sort this out for you