[freenet-support] FMS Woes

[aman pervaiz]

Definitely agree with the captchas problem. I was unable to announce
my identity and gave up!
Frost, though spammed right now is light years ahead usability wise.



On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM, MyTwoCents <m2c at nym.panta-rhei.eu.org> wrote:
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>  I was going to just post this on my flog (which I did) but decided that
>  since I've no idea if any devs read it, I want to be certain that it gets
>  SOME actual notice by developer types and thus posted it here also
>
>  I've been taking a bit of time lately to check in on 0.7 again and have
>  been trying out FMS.  I have to say that while the idea is a good one, has
>  a few things that need to be addressed. Specifically the process of
>  announcing new identities has problems.
>
>  1) The capcha images themselves have absolutely GOT to be changed.
>  Because: "You must have at least 1 identity created and have received the
>  SSK keypair for it from Freenet before setting trust.", I cannot post
>  messages yet, I have been able to read a few, including one:
>
>  Subject: Re: current CAPTCHAs suck
>  From: The Seeker at cI~w2hrvvyUa1E6PhJ9j5cCoG1xmxSooi7Nez4V2Gd4
>  Date: Thu, 01 May 08 21:31:52 -0000
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>  That expresses the opinion that the captchas are more likely to be solved
>  by a program than a human.
>
>  Having spent a few hours trying in vain to read the damn things, I have to
>  say that I wouldn't be surprized if that were true.  Of course, I also
>  think that they were specifically designed to make life difficult for
>  people with vision impairments.
>
>  The images need to be something that an actual human will have little to no
>  trouble reading them. Unfortunately, the graphic abortions that are in use
>  now are apparently impossible for me to read, since I've been "solving"
>  (not that I know if they're 'solved' or just wrong.) them for the better
>  part of a week now and have yet to get my identity announced.
>
>  Which brings me to #2.
>
>  How about some feedback?
>
>  Specifically, when I "solve" a captcha, how about telling me if I got it
>  right or not?  My thought, present captchas one at a time.  Allow user to
>  fill in and submit.  If incorrect, TELL THE USER!!!, then present them with
>  a new one.  If it's correct, again TELL THE USER!!! then present them with
>  a new one.
>
>  This business of sitting here going nearly blind trying to read faint,
>  almost invisible characters is bad enough, not even knowing if I actually
>  got one right is liable to make somebody homicidal.  There's absolutely
>  ZERO reason for this to be a fargin guessing game!
>
>  Frankly, if I ever get my hands on the
>  absolute-brain-dead-moron-studying-to-be-an-idiot-and-failing-miserably
>  that decided to use that kind of damn-near-invisible-characters-image I'm
>  going to print out 10,000 pages of them on plywood sheeds and make him eat
>  them while I beat him to death with my monitor!
>
>  Can you tell I'm more than just casually frustrated here?  Good!
>
>  WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE FIX THE DAMNED CAPTCHAS ON FMS?!?
>
>  The preceeding was written while frustrated and angry and then posted
>  anyway to make a point.
>
>  - --
>  My public keys can be found on my freenet site:
>  SSK at TEx6TiaPeszpV4AFw3ToutDb49EPAgM/mytwocents/62//m2ckey.html
>  (*NOTE* you must be running freenet for this link to be usefull)
>  and on public keyservers. Key-Id: 0x92769D7E
>  Fingerprint: 2F07D586C8D4EEA732711338CFEF46E592769D7E
>  I can be reached either by the NiM form on the freesite or by
>  Email: m2c AT nym.panta-rhei.eu.org
>  Frost: MyTwoCents at Z+59LNK9NhMvxewYggENU4Ww50s On the 0.5 Freenet board
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