Lemmy instance admin concerned about decision to remove CAPTCHA amid spam waves
Lemmy instance admin concerned about decision to remove CAPTCHA amid spam waves
Look, we can debate the proper and private way to do Captchas all day, but if we remove the existing implementation we will be plunged into a world of hurt. I run tucson.social - a tiny instance with barely any users and I find myself really ticked off at other Admin’s abdication of duty when it com...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/387482
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/805172
Big Drama Llamas...
User @th3raid0r@tucson.social posted a call to pressure the devs to return CAPTCHA support before v.0.18 arrives on the community !technology@beehaw.org.
Mixed response from users and beehaw admins.
Lemmy issue #2922 is where it was removed 2 weeks ago due to its effectiveness being limited, Lemmy issue #3200 is the issue where it is suggested to have it return. Repo maintainers are somewhat perceptive to reverting it but would be more willing to accept a full implementation of graphical CAPTCHA over the previous version.
Alternative links: https://lemmy.ca/post/793011, https://beehaw.org/post/667199. (Note that if you view from a defed instance with Beehaw you will only see a handful of comments).
Discussion welcome here.