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Image captcha on forum site causing issues #149

Closed jenlampton closed 4 months ago

jenlampton commented 4 months ago

It appears as though a captcha has been added to the forum site, but with no QA or testing. People have been unable to register due to 1) it being an image captcha, and impossible to read (for many humans) and 2) the style on the registration form made the box where the "answer" to the captcha too small for anyone to use.

I have removed the captcha from the registration form, and uninstalled the image captcha module.

In general, interactive captchas are a very bad idea, and should not be added to any forms on any backdropcms.org sites. There are always better solutions to prevent bots from submitting forms -- ones that don't also harm the humans :)

jenlampton commented 4 months ago

I've enabled recaptcha on both the login and register forms, and updated the CSS to account for the new elements.