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    Kitten Captcha now online!


    Post #: 114
    Post type: Blog post
    Date: 2012-03-05 14:08:25.000
    Author: Jeremy Reimer
    Tags: Software, Monarch

    I was going to do this when I first released Monarch, but it seemed hard so I didn’t actually get around to doing it.

    Until now.

    To prevent spammers that can read even the most twisted words and phrases, I’ve implemented my own version of Kitten Captcha, something I wrote about on Ars way back in 2006 here:
    http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/04/6554.ars

    Well, I’ve finally done it. The system displays a bunch of random pictures and a new user has to select all the pictures that are in fact cats. The file names are all randomized so that a spambot can’t just guess what they are, and you have to pick only three out of the ten images so you can’t just select everything.

    I deleted all the spam accounts that OSY 3.0 had accumulated (about 30 of them!) and so we’ll see how this new system works. I hope it both discourages bots and encourages new users due to its being cute and cuddly.

    Here’s a screenshot of the page in action:

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    Monarch Thing-A-Day Challenge!


    Post #: 75
    Post type: Blog post
    Date: 2010-12-13 11:34:59.000
    Author: Jeremy Reimer
    Tags: Monarch

    Now that Monarch has been released to the public at version 0.24, I’ve decided to crank things up a little bit.

    Starting today I will add one feature per day to the system. They may not always be big features, but they will address missing functionality that the old system (both Drupal and PHPBB) offered.

    I have no particular order that I plan to do these in, but I’m trying to hit the most obvious ones first-- the ones that you would use all the time.

    Monday’s feature is a Last Post link, to let you instantly jump to the last post in a thread by clicking on the name/date in the "Last post" column.

    EDIT: Testing smilies in blog posts. :D :D

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