Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Word verification
I was going to respond to a comment on Howard's blog. This requires both registration and word verification for the signup. A step more than mine but not unreasonable.
The image I got however I thought most unreasonable. I'm only just 38 and found this more than a little unreadable. Perhaps I am a bot?
6 Comments
The image I got however I thought most unreasonable. I'm only just 38 and found this more than a little unreadable. Perhaps I am a bot?
6 Comments:
Niall,
That's the problem which I've left with Howard. MyOpera's word verification is so tiny that it was almost impossible to read and I actually had to force it to give me a bigger image by mistyping and getting redirected to the actual sign-up screen where the image is way way bigger.
That's the problem which I've left with Howard. MyOpera's word verification is so tiny that it was almost impossible to read and I actually had to force it to give me a bigger image by mistyping and getting redirected to the actual sign-up screen where the image is way way bigger.
I'm younger than you are and I still can't make out what the verification words are on his blog. I've yet to have something worth commenting about on his blog, but if I had, I'm not sure I'd even be able to make it past the verification myself. =/
It looks like two buttterflies mating. (grin) There is another web site that I have go through equally silly hoops to post. The font is such that it is difficult to tell B's from 8's and so forth.(Q's from P's). it usually takes me 3 times to get it right.
I noted the same thing, but the correction screen you get afterwards is more reasonable. It still took me many tries regardless. And it seems that my.opera has some severe proxy problems serving pieces of pages at random times. The only problem I've noted with blogspot was that one time it was down for maintenance. There must be something to this large corporate financing thingy.
word verification: nhmycx
say it out loud.
word verification: nhmycx
say it out loud.
I really hadn't realised that this post and these comments were here... sorry. I saw the post before and after it, but not this one itself!
Well, anyway: I did make reference to the ABYSMAL word verification mechanism at Opera as one of my main problems with it. The example you cite, Niall, is one of the better ones, I reckon! XbwsLu7h.... but pray you never get asked g's and q's!
Anyway, as you will all know by now... I gave up. Funny that Joel should mention dodgy proxies, because this afternoon the entire opera domain is down, and that's something I've never seen with a "proper" domain before. Clearly, they know nothing about clustering!
As I say, I've abandoned Opera as a blog host. I liked its look, but reliability was (is) poor, and the word verification used to give *me* nightmares, not just my readers. To whom, incidentally, I offer profound apologies.
At the new blog, you don't have these sorts of issue (I hope)!
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Well, anyway: I did make reference to the ABYSMAL word verification mechanism at Opera as one of my main problems with it. The example you cite, Niall, is one of the better ones, I reckon! XbwsLu7h.... but pray you never get asked g's and q's!
Anyway, as you will all know by now... I gave up. Funny that Joel should mention dodgy proxies, because this afternoon the entire opera domain is down, and that's something I've never seen with a "proper" domain before. Clearly, they know nothing about clustering!
As I say, I've abandoned Opera as a blog host. I liked its look, but reliability was (is) poor, and the word verification used to give *me* nightmares, not just my readers. To whom, incidentally, I offer profound apologies.
At the new blog, you don't have these sorts of issue (I hope)!
