As a subscriber I have been startled, today,  to hit a requirement for a captcha

www.thetarotforum.com

is protected by Imunify360

 

when I went to search someone's profile for an old post. This never happened to me before - is it invision or just this forum ? It will be irritating if it happens a lot - I was hardly performing any  "unusual activity" as it suggested... I've only been on line for half an hour.

We've had a few other reports of this and already actively looking into it. Nothing has changed from our end to bring it on and so we are investigating 🙂

Thanks - I just tested on my other invision forum and it isn't happening there (yet, anyway.)

 

I see there are complaints all over the web about this.... It seems to be something that you have to install yourself for your own site....

Edited August 14, 20233 yr by gregory

It's the server itself AFAIK. It's useful for extra protection and I don't mind having that barrier. It's just a click. 

I understand that you want to keep the site safe, that’s greatly appreciated 🙂. But I do wonder, is it possible to not have that feature active for subscribers? None of us are bots, and I do find it bothersome to have to solve captcha puzzles just because I did a forum search. 

There is no possible way to do that, it's server-side, not software-side.

Today I was thrown out again, and I was simply answering a post. I hadn’t done a search or anything, just typed a reply. And once I was out, the captcha had issues. It couldn’t format itself to my phone and I only saw parts of the puzzle, and once I had moved around the screen and solved the puzzle, it just kept buffering for a very long time before I was allowed back in. Seriously, something is off with this thing. So it’s not just a click, like you meant it to be. It’s a stressful nuisance to me 😞

It's not something LF set up - it's the same on all the websites that use it. A Pain, the end !

Edited September 22, 20233 yr by gregory

It's something added to most servers now, it's the same as Cloudflare.

It protects us if someone tried to maliciously send a lot of traffic at us or other cyberattacks 😞

 

It's really useful to protect us to have it on and it's recommended to not turn it off. There is no in-between or white listing members sadly. We'll keep monitoring it and looking at the situation as always ❤️

 

It's annoying that now it's not just a click but also a pattern for you @Raggydoll

I have never had it appear at home but went on holiday last week and got it randomly turn up a few times but it was just a click through.