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Buggy Captcha on User Registration

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BastiFantasti Sunday 29 December 2013 at 10:53
BastiFantastiAnonymous

Hi there,

I tried to sign up for this site - and almost gave up.
The captcha never showed any text in it.
With leaving the captcha input blank I clicked on the register button and received a e-mail with the activation code.
But when entering this code I always got an error message that the code (I think captcha code) is not valid.

After approx. 80 site refreshes I got a readable / valid captcha but than ran into the 5 minute delay for getting a new confirmation mail :-(

maybe there's a problem with the captcha module

Regards,
Basti

Ronin DUSETTE Sunday 29 December 2013 at 17:48
Ronin DUSETTE

Try a different browser. There is nothing wrong with it. It could have been a server glitch (these things DO happen), but we have had no reports that I no about, except for yours. We will for sure keep it in mind and look into it, but I imagine that its either your system/browser or a small server glitch.

With leaving the captcha input blank I clicked on the register button and received a e-mail with the activation code.

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Right off, that will always make issues. Never leave those blank.

Please:
Post debug logs & full computer specs in first post
No private messages for general help, use the forums
Read the wiki, Report broken scripts
BastiFantasti Monday 30 December 2013 at 17:59
BastiFantastiAnonymous

Hi and thanks for your reply.
I used firefox on my ubuntu installation and tried it with my nexus tablet - same on both devices.
I'll post some screenshots in a few seconds.

Edit:

Here the captchas:

cap1

cap2

cap3

I see nothing useful in these ...

Edited by BastiFantasti

Quentin PÂRIS Monday 30 December 2013 at 21:57
Quentin PÂRISAnonymous

That is really weird. Have you allowed cookies?
BastiFantasti Tuesday 31 December 2013 at 12:10
BastiFantastiAnonymous

Yes,

cookies are allowed
Quentin PÂRIS Friday 3 January 2014 at 16:14
Quentin PÂRISAnonymous

Can you give me the steps you followed to reproduce the problem? (With a clean browser)
Ato Tuesday 18 February 2014 at 20:39
AtoAnonymous

Just for the record: I experienced the same on Linux w. Opera. I had cookies forbidden. After allowing cookies for POL and restarting(!) the browser, things did not work. I had to wait a day(!) until a retry was successful.

Hth.