Why Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to even see the forum??

[thinkpadx]

Thanks for all of the hard work and perseverance. - i get the captcha check box all of the time but i do get to the forums quickly. so np big deal - brave browser.

thanks admins and devs

[Germ]

Seems to work OK now in Firefox and Falkon. Just get the check box in both of them.

YMMV

One thing, the forum seems to be low on the number of posts. Especially for the weekend. Some users may still be having problems but have no way to report them...

[richb]

Seems to work OK now in Firefox and Falkon. Just get the check box in both of them.

YMMV

One thing, the forum seems to be low on the number of posts. Especially for the weekend. Some users may still be having problems but have no way to report them...

They can contact the Forum administrator even if not logged in by using Contact Us at the bottom of the forum.

[Germ]

logged in or not, you still have to get past cloudflare as I understand it.

[richb]

That is correct. I do not have have statistics on typical Sunday Night (EST time) Forum posting. So it is speculation on numbers on line. Some users may still be having issues. I refer you to this by Dolphin Oracle.

we did try to lower the security level last nite. and the forum almost immediately went down.

I would settle in for the long haul. having the captcha is better than not having the forum.

also, I have zero problems with firefox and the captcha. can't say about conflicts with third-party extensions, that could happen I suppose, depending on the extension.

the time to get to forum is not related to the captcha. even with the captcha, we are still being hammered by bots and so occasionally its still going to slow down from time.

Note that measures have also been taken to mitigate the Forum slowdown issues.

[MikeR]

one more data point:
HOORAY!!
seems to work (one verification only, on first entry.)
Translates OK
Using vanilla Chromium

Thanks, guys!!

Edited to add: Suggest putting some notification on https://mxlinux.org/mx-linux-blog/
as it is accessible without verification

[davidy]

Only Tor-Browser works now to get to this site. I was using it exclusively for this site but mx-viewer seemed to be a little quicker and simpler. Not now. Btw, for a great dark mode addon try "Darker Background Brighter Font"
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darker-bg-brighter-font/
The ddos attack is so that google can corral everyone through them. Even though I'm not blocking the cloudflare captcha in opensnitch (or any other browser for that matter), I am blocking quite a few google's which is the problem, at least for me. Google wants to be the end-all for the net.
My advice is do whatever it takes to bypass ANYTHING that requires google ANYTHING if you are actually serious about security much less any actual privacy. I actually hate using torbrowser because it has no actual google filters, but, it does go where other browsers may not, as in this case.
Chromium works? What a shocker. I have the ungoogled version appimage and never use it on purpose.

[Be OK]

Richb over the forum down issue ,and the suggestions from a Cloudflare community team member. Ensure cookies are enabled in your browser settings.Disable Ad-blocker or any privacy-related extensions temporarily. I am not familiar with all of your extensions, a good approach is to disable all of them, try to access the site, if successful, enable 1 by 1 to isolate the one causing the conflict. Check if JavaScript is enabled.
Sadly that's all that make your computer unsafe,Specially javascripts,the forget that are programs executed on your computer.

[richb]

@Be OK
Then do not do any of it. I was just passing the information on, not sanctioning it.

[CharlesV]

Richb over the forum down issue ,and the suggestions from a Cloudflare community team member. Ensure cookies are enabled in your browser settings.Disable Ad-blocker or any privacy-related extensions temporarily. I am not familiar with all of your extensions, a good approach is to disable all of them, try to access the site, if successful, enable 1 by 1 to isolate the one causing the conflict. Check if JavaScript is enabled.
Sadly that's all that make your computer unsafe,Specially javascripts,the forget that are programs executed on your computer.

Yeah, I have seen those suggestions. Unfortunately in FF I had to have JavaScript enabled to get in (but then I always do so.) But, I tun DuckDuckGo Privacy Extension as well as uBlock Origin and those seem just fine with teh CF captcha