ekforum Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Does it show to all users, if so is there a way to disable that? Kind of annoying to have to go to that step to visit a website. Also means google bots etc can't crawl my website anymore and will affecting page rankings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I have gotten it on my sites and here, so I would assume that it has been deployed to everyone. I have no news or information to share about it, but the design looks like a Google spam ad and that is pretty bad IMO. Hopefully, it is just temporary due to a DDOS attack, but we never get that kind of information. David N. and ekforum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekforum Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 (edited) It looks absolutely terrible and degrades the credibility of my website (which is a professional ran and successful business) completely. Users also speaking about it now. Please can invision see this and let us know? Is it just temporary? Edited February 7 by ekforum David N. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansKiesouw Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 (edited) Sorry, guys, but this captcha on hosted services is becoming a user loser. I am the admin and had to complete the verification about 6 times, before I see the page. This is not good at all. Now I am unable to get passed the Captcha process, so what would happen to our users? I have managed to login as admin, but when I go to a post, I am in a loop with the verification process. This is atrocious. Edited February 7 by HansKiesouw ekforum and David N. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Just now, HansKiesouw said: Sorry, guys, but this captcha on hosted services is becoming a user loser. I am the admin and had to complete the verification about 6 times, before I see the page. This is not good at all Ya, it does not appear to have a memory or anything of who is using it as I need to enter it multiple times in the same session now. David N. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekforum Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 2 minutes ago, UncrownedGuard said: Ya, it does not appear to have a memory or anything of who is using it as I need to enter it multiple times in the same session now. Yea also getting that 💩 experience. Just absolutely terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 On a side note, if it is a DDOS attack or something, they are doing a good job of keeping the sites up compared to the last few DDOS issues, but we really need communication or a notice system as just guessing is not a great experience for anyone. I'm okay with a system like this if it helps (granted, it really needs a redesign), but we need info as customers to when things are being turned on and turned off. ekforum and HansKiesouw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansKiesouw Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Can someone please give us an explanation as to why we have this verification in place? I am now unable to do any admin function as every click results in a verification process, that is sometimes only once, other times it results in a loop and I never get to the content I need. This is really bad communication from IPS and hopefully there is a really good explanation and sollution. ekforum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Just now, HansKiesouw said: Can someone please give us an explanation as to why we have this verification in place? I am now unable to do any admin function as every click results in a verification process, that is sometimes only once, other times it results in a loop and I never get to the content I need. This is really bad communication from IPS and hopefully there is a really good explanation and sollution. I just got an update from my monitors that my sites are reporting degraded service and long response times in numerous areas. I'd guess IPS is having server instability at this time and likely a DDOS given the catcha prompts. But of course, this is just with information I can pull from my own sites and no official notice from IPS. This is probably an automated system they have on play, but a automated notice for us would be an amazing feature. HansKiesouw and ekforum 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansKiesouw Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 As we are on AWS, I suspect that Amazon has put this in place, rather than IPS. UncrownedGuard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 16 minutes ago, HansKiesouw said: As we are on AWS, I suspect that Amazon has put this in place, rather than IPS. That is a very likely answer. It does have a terrible Amazon design look to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Please have a read of the following, which shows what this is and why it is important We have however reported internally that people are being shown repeatedly ekforum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekforum Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 3 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: Please have a read of the following, which shows what this is and why it is important We have however reported internally that people are being shown repeatedly Thank you for linking to that. Hopefully it can be Improved (the design of the captcha as looks dodgy from users perspective) Will see if it keeps happening for users. I ran into it myself multiple times so far today but have never seen it before, despite using a VPN all the time (and topic above was from August 2023) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 44 minutes ago, ekforum said: Thank you for linking to that. Hopefully it can be Improved (the design of the captcha as looks dodgy from users perspective) Will see if it keeps happening for users. I ran into it myself multiple times so far today but have never seen it before, despite using a VPN all the time (and topic above was from August 2023) @Marc Stridgen yes, the change seems to fix some problems. But even as the admin I had to sit and wonder if I had some sort of malware when it popped up. A solution that can pull the page wrapper or at least some branding/formatting would be a huge step to improve this. ekforum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Please check this again now. We have made some changed. Any issues, please let us know UncrownedGuard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 14 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: Please check this again now. We have made some changed. Any issues, please let us know Well I'm not seeing it anymore, so that seems better. But if you are talking about the look of it, then I don't know how to force it to pop up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 7 minutes ago, UncrownedGuard said: Well I'm not seeing it anymore, so that seems better. But if you are talking about the look of it, then I don't know how to force it to pop up. No, its not the look of it. Its more the fact its present. You really shouldnt see it very often at all. Most of your users probably wouldnt ever see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David N. Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, ekforum said: the design of the captcha as looks dodgy from users perspective Yes, IMO that's a big issue. Most users seeing this are probably going to think the site has been hacked and won't proceed. ekforum and SeNioR- 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncrownedGuard Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 If we could just take that little catcha box and place it in the site offline wrapper, it would likely be an acceptable integration for most sites. Give us the site name and a style of box that matches IPS's layout and it would improve multitudes times better. ekforum and David N. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I can bring up that internally. Just ensuring the issue of of it showing all the time is resolved first of all. ekforum and Markus Jung 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 54 minutes ago, UncrownedGuard said: If we could just take that little catcha box and place it in the site offline wrapper, it would likely be an acceptable integration for most sites. Give us the site name and a style of box that matches IPS's layout and it would improve multitudes times better. In terms of this, it is something that shouldnt really be coming up. It was added as a 'just in case', but really your users shouldnt be seeing it unless they are doing something very odd. So it would be a case of us having a look at the rules to prevent the issue, rather than prettifying the problem, so to speak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Harmonies Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I'm confused, based upon the above posts. Is this something AWS has implemented or Invision? I'm getting complaints from my board users. Australian posters in particular are being hammered with this on every posting attempt even after they successfully pass verification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Heavy Harmonies said: I'm confused, based upon the above posts. Is this something AWS has implemented or Invision? I'm getting complaints from my board users. Australian posters in particular are being hammered with this on every posting attempt even after they successfully pass verification. Could you clarify, are they still getting it now? This is something we implemented, in answer to your question. But it should be very very rare anyone sees it. Most people wouldnt ever see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavy Harmonies Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 11 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: Could you clarify, are they still getting it now? This is something we implemented, in answer to your question. But it should be very very rare anyone sees it. Most people wouldnt ever see it I asked my users and was awaiting more replies before responding here, as my userbase is more international than many boards so we're in the middle of the night in some places. I've received replies from 2 of the users originally impacted and they say they are no longer encountering the issue. That's a small sample size though. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I think you will find the same with the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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