Tamarisk

I am honestly blown away by how good all of this looks. I honestly wasn't expecting such a massive leap forward in design with v5, so this is all quite a wonderful surprise to me. @Ehren and you all have done an amazing job with all of this. Modern desktop resolutions have gotten so large now that we have such a massive amount of wasted real estate on the sides, even with widgets and everything else filling up some of that space. Migrating to a sidebar layout to capitalize on this just makes a ton of sense, and also makes navigating around seamless. The new mobile layout looks wonderful too, along with the new forum layouts and everything else. It has been a long time since I've been this genuinely excited about a new IPS release.

Yes, these services absolutely exist. They are paid fractions of a penny for each completed captcha. The services are so popular there are many Python and PHP libraries just to have your scrapers or other tools hook into these services and bypass captcha pages.

I definitely look forward to seeing how it performs. I was planning on just giving one of the paid services a try recently, but if you're able to provide this as part of your included spam defense systems that is a great value for license holders.

Are you able to mention what you're using to filter disposable emails? I have an application that uses kickboxes free disposable email checking tool, but it seems like they've become a bit less reliable lately. I still get a lot of disposable emails that get through the service. It catches some, but not all. They used to have a much stronger catch rate. There are other paid API endpoints out there that do a much better job, but they require a monthly subscription to use. Are you using any singular service, a combination of databases on your infeastructure, or is it a "select your service" type thing (which I'm guessing it's not since it's tied into your spam service) Very cool to see this being added to the core software regardless! People using disposable emails to register accounts for spam or to bypass other limits/restrictions has definitely been a growing problem I've seen.

I look forward to seeing what updates you have to the reporting system. Making moderation easier is always a good thing for larger communities. The gallery updates also seem very nice for the most part, though the navigation having a limited number of images it can display (or seeming to not display at all in the case of categories/non-albums with lots of images) is something I hope can be improved on.