FunCaptcha

Hi there,

Currently we only support english, we are planning to add multilingual support in the future, but we don’t have a timeline on that currently.

Thanks!
FunCaptcha team

Hi there,

Can you email us at [email protected]?

We should be able to just update your local copy to use the new URL.

Thanks,
FunCaptcha team

Hi there wzp,

This is actually a feature, not a bug – nor was it an outage, our servers were fine. We take great care in ensuring our service is always up and running and as such have a wide range of servers in different locations to prevent outages.

What you experienced was what we consider “low bandwidth” mode. Normally we serve FunCaptcha in its full image based glory, auto loading on the page to ensure your users can fill it out as fast as possible. However we track how many times a user has viewed FunCaptcha without solving it – bots generally hit a page many thousands of times trying to break in/post spam. After a certain amount views without attempting to solve FunCaptcha, we show this low bandwidth version, where the images are not loaded by default until you click the plain HTML verify button.

The game still works the exact same, and the count resets after 24 hours, or if you solve games it also increases, it’s just a DDoS prevention method as we can get hit many millions of times a day, it makes a big difference at scale, when the vast majority of people seeing this version are bots due to high page refreshes.

The reason why it followed you site to site and computer to computer is because it’s based on your IP address (FunCaptcha served on our site is the same as what is served in your plugin and all of our other users sites, same settings follow you, etc), which would have been the same in all of those cases.

To better clarify and to ensure people don’t have the same issue you did in future, we will add a section to our FAQ here: https://funcaptcha.co/faqs/ and we will add a note to the HTML screen with a link to that.

Hi there,

The cause for this can be as simple as the user navigating away before it has a chance to generate FunCaptcha, which can happen pretty easily as some browsers block loading while loading a new page.

Regards,
FunCaptcha team

Hi SickSquirrel,

This is simply to ensure the plugin is correctly updated before the database is touched, to prevent any possible data corruptions if new data is added to the plugin as we add new features.

Regards,
FunCaptcha team

Ah, it seems neither CAPTCHA is being checked, or any sort of validation at all – clicking register is registering the user, even if you don’t put anything into the fields.

You next best step might be turning off plugins one by one until you see your registration page validating, I’m not sure which plugin at this point might be causing the issue, but it seems to be something conflicting with your theme.

You might even want to temporarily try changing your theme to see if that works (if you can, do it in a dev environment).

Found the issue!

Your plugin, “New User Approve” was doing its create new user action before checking for errors from FunCaptcha. This is basically due to a weird way WordPress orders plugin calls, so it didn’t know FunCaptcha was triggering an error (but FunCaptcha still blocked the signup per normal, however this plugin overwrites the normal signup method).

I have issued an update which increases FunCaptchas priority to before this plugin, to make sure it always checks the error code first to make sure it’s solved. Let me know if it works for you – version 0.5.1.

Thanks!

And could you also let me know your theme?

You mention a bbPress registration page, is it not the standard WordPress registration page? That might be the issue.

Thanks!

WordProSystems,

Please email me at [email protected] the plugins you have installed and I’ll track down the issue.

Kind regards!

I have just done an update with fully tested bbPress support, I also added support for bbPress topic and replies to display FunCaptcha if you’d like (option in plugin settings, defaults off.).

WordProSystems,

I’ve done some testing with bbPress, and it all works fine for me – are you using any special registration plugin at all?

Can you send me an email at [email protected] and I’ll see how we can fix this for you.

Regards!

Hi WordProSystems,

I have done some investigation on this issue to find the cause.

You’re right in that the issue is not the other plugin, the issue here is bbPress uses a custom form which does not use the same CAPTCHA code hooks as the WordPress or Buddypress register forms use (which we fully support both).

We don’t currently have support for bbPress, which will cause it to not appear/get authenticated.

I’ll look into adding bbPress support in our next feature update soon!

Thanks,
FunCaptcha team

Hi WordProSystems,

Can you let us know what the other CAPTCHA plugin is? Sounds like a conflict. We can confirm you must validate FunCaptcha to register on bbpress forum.

We’ll see if we can resolve the conflict.

Regards,
FunCaptcha team

Thanks very much for your support, gabbuz! Contact us with any questions or comments. More improvements coming all the time!

Cheers,
The FunCaptcha team

The issue is fixed in version 0.3.18.