Gobsmacked at how unusable ReCaptcha is

[Stuart Wright]

Tested our sign up routine today and was horrified at how difficult it was to correctly answer ReCaptcha. Impossible to read one of the two words most of the time.
I think I would rather trust in 1.4's anti spam registration tricks and switch off captcha altogether than use the nightmare that is ReCaptcha.
In the end I installed the slide captcha addon which makes registering easy as it should be.

 

[Paul B]

I have never used ReCaptcha after seeing how bad it was on numerous other sites.

I just use Q&A, although admittedly my site is much less of a target for spammers than others.
Perhaps they find F1 boring

 

[Stuart Wright]

They get paid per link they plant, I think, so they care less about what the content of the site is than how popular it is. Might not even care about that if it's being indexed in Google.

 

[Paul B]

than how popular it is

 

[Chris D]

Have you looked at the new Captcha options that were introduced in 1.4?

Solve Media is used here:

 

[Stuart Wright]

I quite like keycaptcha as well, but slide captcha beats them all for ease of use IMO.

 

[Alpha1]

I never use any form of captha on my sites.

 

[Forsaken]

I only ever get 3-4 numbers now with ReCaptcha so I never have problems solving it.

 

[petertdavis]

I don't think any of the captchas make a bit of difference against the spammers.

 

[rdn]

Use Custom QA specific to your forum.

 

[tajhay]

Custom Q&A beats all the captchas with ease.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Keycapthca has been my choice for years... and upgraded to puzzle makes it nice and simple for humans to solve.