OSDev.org

Lately the website has been demanding me to prove being a human every day. This isn't nice.

Same here, but I don't have to solve a CAPTCHA, merely click a checkbox. It's weird, but not too annoying.

I noticed the same, and have to re-login after that. I would consider it rather annoying.

Hi guys,

I think there was a recent change in either the osdev.org side or the browser side.
The past few days I couldn't even reach the site due to the captcha constantly looping looking for a human.
Come to find out, the past how many years (20?) I was using "http://forum.....", and now simply adding the 's' to make it secure, fixed the issue.
If you are using "http://forum.....", change your bookmark to "https://forum....." and the captcha will now work.
Mine doesn't even require me to click on a button. It just shows it's looking for a human and then goes directly to the site without user intervention.

Ben
- https://www.fysnet.net/the_universal_serial_bus.htm

nullplan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:57 pm Same here, but I don't have to solve a CAPTCHA, merely click a checkbox. It's weird, but not too annoying.

Right, just the checkbox. But why. I hate this nonsense.

BenLunt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:32 am If you are using "http://forum.....", change your bookmark to "https://forum....." and the captcha will now work.

Nah, it's already https here.

Requests to the site spike into the millions per day from Brazil ip addresses this week. The server CPU which I already doubled was maxed out and the site was unresponsive.

I turned on all the other bot fight options and it wasn't helping, the annoying captcha was the only thing that would tamper down the traffic enough.

I'm going to try turning it back off but its possible I might have to re-enable it from time to time.

Thanks for the explanation! Good to know that it is a purposeful "necessary evil"