Anyone else forced to solve a captcha before using Derpi?

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Yeah, it seems like it’s currently under attack. I haven’t had to solve multiple times (just once) but I went from having only ever once seen the site’s error page to seeing it half a dozen times. Reminds me of old Fimfiction. Ah, the good old days…
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Yes this is driveling me fucken crazy nmo I find the pictures hard to see and it’s just a pain mods please MAKE IT STOP…….please
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all i know is this is totally unacceptable! i mean, if i just had to click a box it would be annoying but passable, but instead i’m also FORCED to click on pics most of which i’m not sure are the ones they want or not! perhaps cloudflare is not the service to use because obviously, it’s annoying your user base.
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Let me guess, after forcing users to solve captcha every few minutes even when logged in for some time there will be invented a ‘miraculous’ solution to avoid this by implementing some kind of two-factor authentication and logging with one’s social media profile with mandatory disabling of adblock\ublock?
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@I’m here just for the filters  
No. We’re not into creepy tracking BS. The site has public source code given under a free license, and we’ve been working for years to cut every single one of our external code dependencies.
 
The point of the CAPTCHAs you sometimes receive is to block automated attacks. As long as no attacks are happening, you will not receive a CAPTCHA. If you do not want to fill any out, that is entirely your prerogative, you just won’t be able to use the site until the attack stops.
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Thanks for your great explanations and the work you put into this! This really makes the problem far more understandable and filling out a CAPTCHA once in a while to still be able to use this site is quite okay.
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Ah I was wondering what was going on with the CAPTCHA lately. It is one of the more annoying ones where you gotta solve a picture puzzle essentially. My eyes are sadly not that good anymore so these have been rather annoying.
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