Incredible!

  • 30 Sep 2023 13:44
    Message # 13261291

    Incredible, why?

    Because this part of the forum's last entry is from 2016 (thanks to to Annie Hill).
    So I wonder, if someone up there "listens" to this channel, or if the website provides a notification to whoever up there is in charge of this wonderful community website.

    I will know, if I find an answer to this message!

    Apart from that, here is the point I wanted to stress:
    Each time I restart my computer, when I log-in in the JRA website, I have to go through that "captcha" exam, which is so curiously designed that I sometimes go through 12 different images propositions, before I can be accepted.

    Exemple:
    Please tick all the images showing a bicycle.
    And here is a picture of a guy on a bicycle, divided in squares. There may be a tiny little bit of a brake lever in the corner of a square, or a bit of the shadow of the rear tyre at the edge of another square. Do I tick them or not? And is the rider part of the requested answer?

    There are alternatives to this captcha method. As a former website engineer, I remember our favorite: one or several hidden input fields in the submission form, labeled with significant names such as "post_code" or "country"or whatever. Humans don't see them so don't populate them, but robots won't make a difference and will do. Easy then to make the difference between humans and robots (although I have nothing against robots, I have seberal friendly ones in my kitchen).
    Of course this is probably not 100% robot-proof, but that's not worse than the cactual method.

    Well, that was all!

    Fair winds to all of you.
    Patrick

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  • 30 Sep 2023 15:19
    Reply # 13261320 on 13261291
    Anonymous wrote:Apart from that, here is the point I wanted to stress:

    Each time I restart my computer, when I log-in in the JRA website, I have to go through that "captcha" exam, which is so curiously designed that I sometimes go through 12 different images propositions, before I can be accepted.

    I also find captcha annoying. However, it seems there are two places to log in. The one in the middle of the page that requires captcha and the one in the top right of the page in the header bar. The one in the top right does not seem to require a captcha test. Oh, and this is one of the few sites I actually click on the "keep me logged in" checkbox. The keep me logged in function seems to work best when I use the main Members Area page as my home page. It seems to work fine over reboots etc. Sometimes if I have left a message open, I have to login again anyway.

    Fair winds to all of you.
    Patrick

    And to you as well.

    Len

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