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David Blatner · 2009-11-26T04:27:31-08:00

Please let me know if you're seeing math puzzles down below, when you try to reply to posts on this forum. They're not supposed to be there! I can't see them. We thought we turned them off for everyone, but we're hearing notices that some people do find they need to do that simple math captcha before they can post or reply. If you are seeing math puzzles when trying to post or reply, please reply below and tell us what web browser and OS you're using.

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- November 26, 2009 at 4:27 am #54001
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Please let me know if you're seeing math puzzles down below, when you try to reply to posts on this forum. They're not supposed to be there! I can't see them. We thought we turned them off for everyone, but we're hearing notices that some people do find they need to do that simple math captcha before they can post or reply.
  
  If you are seeing math puzzles when trying to post or reply, please reply below and tell us what web browser and OS you're using.
- November 26, 2009 at 5:34 am #54003
  
  Adam Jury
  Member
  
  Still getting math! OS X 10.6.2, Safari 4.04.
- November 26, 2009 at 6:06 am #54004
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  Ah – well, I can see them!
  
  4 + 4 is er….
- November 26, 2009 at 11:25 am #54007
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  Still getting them here too
- November 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm #54008
  
  Eelco
  Participant
  
  And here as wel…
  
  And another bug. Don't know if it mentioned yet.
- November 26, 2009 at 1:48 pm #54009
  
  Theunis De Jong
  Member
  
  So what the problem with the math? If someone has problems getting the right answer, well, both Mac and Windows have a calculator
  
  This one is “The sum of 3+3″ — perhaps you could make 'em a bit more difficult, these are no fun at all …
  
  (Windows XP, SP3, IE 8 )
  
  (It's not there when editing a post, I notice.)
- November 26, 2009 at 2:31 pm #54012
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  Well I have over 50 posts and they are getting harder.
  
  11 + 5 for this one
  
  another one earlier was 15 + 12.
  
  Perhaps when we get to 100 posts it will be like 25 + 35 and such like.
  
  Not looking forward to reaching 1000 posts, the questions will be quite difficult then.
- November 26, 2009 at 3:37 pm #54014
  
  Anne-Marie Concepcion
  Member
  
  Boy that is weird. We're looking into it.
  
  In the meantime remember if you can't figure out the math problem, just use one of InDesign's X or Y fields ;-)
  
  AM
- November 26, 2009 at 3:38 pm #54015
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Kris, Eugene, and eelco: Please let me know what browser and OS you're using.
  
  If you log out and log back in (to this site), does that help?
  
  Theun: The problem with the math is that it's annoying and slows people down… the captcha was originally set up to avoid spam, but it's not relevant because you have to be logged in to post. If you're logged in already, why force people to do math?
  
  (Besides, since I do all my basic math in InDesign now, my brain has atrophied.)
- November 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm #54017
  
  Eelco
  Participant
  
  David, Mac OSX 10.5.8, Safari 4.0.3. I've closed Safari, but doesn't help.
- November 26, 2009 at 5:00 pm #54019
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  David,
  
  On Windows XP and Windows Vista, using Firefox (latest to this date)
  
  I've logged out and back in and it made no difference.
  
  Eugene
- November 26, 2009 at 7:35 pm #54020
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  David Blatner said:
  
  > Kris, Eugene, and eelco: Please let me know what browser and OS you're using.
  
  I logged out and back in with Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 – the math is still there. I'll check it out from Firefox now…
- November 26, 2009 at 7:38 pm #54021
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  David Blatner said:
  
  Kris, Eugene, and eelco: Please let me know what browser and OS you're using.
  
  Firefox 3.5.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 – math is still there. I'll switch to Windows now…
- November 26, 2009 at 7:43 pm #54022
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  David Blatner said:
  
  Kris, Eugene, and eelco: Please let me know what browser and OS you're using.
  
  Now posting from IE 8.0.7600.16385 on Windows 7 – math is still there.
  
  I'd say it's not browser- or platform-related. David, let me know if you want it, and I'll e-mail you my account and password details, so you can try it out as 'RorohikoKris' from your end – that might shed some light. If you don't see the math while being me, maybe there is some geolocation in the play. If you do see the math – you've got something to debug things with.
  
  E-mail me direct if you want it!
  
  Cheers,
  
  Kris
- November 27, 2009 at 12:16 am #54026
  
  Dwayne Harris
  Member
  
  I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on a Mac w/Snow Leopard (10.6.1). And I still get the math thing. For some reason I was logged out and had to log in. But I logged out again and logged back in and the math thing is still there.
  
  As an aside, I have to figure out 2 + 4 :( :D
- November 27, 2009 at 12:45 am #54027
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Okay, thanks everyone. The answer is that it does not appear to have anything to do with the web browser or OS. It has something bizarrely to do with the user account. We'll figure it out… unfortunately, Pariah (who has set up most of this for us) is on holiday so we probably can't change it for another week or so. Sorry!
- December 3, 2009 at 9:54 pm #54117
  
  Nancy West
  Member
  
  Yes, I have to do the math to post as well. Windows XP 5.1.2600, Service Pack 3, Internet Explorer 8.0.6
- December 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm #54118
  
  Bob Levine
  Participant
  
  I saw them back when the forums first lauched but no more.
- December 4, 2009 at 1:51 am #54124
  
  Dwayne Harris
  Member
  
  I still get 'em. And who stretched the screen??? Someone posted something that really stretched it. I've got a 23-inch display and I've gotta scroll sideways to read this thread.
- December 4, 2009 at 1:56 am #54125
  
  Adam Jury
  Member
  
  The stretched screen is simply due to the wide images that have been posted in this thread. :)
- December 4, 2009 at 2:16 am #54128
  
  Dwayne Harris
  Member
  
  That was my first thought, adamjury. But I've been to sites where something as simple as a space band in front of a new paragraph caused it.
- December 4, 2009 at 4:14 pm #54143
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Yes, it was Kris' really wide image. I manually edited the HTML width tag and it's better now. We'll try to find a way to manage that automatically in the future.
- December 6, 2009 at 1:41 am #54148
  
  Dwayne Harris
  Member
  
  good job, David! :)
  
  Things like that happen. No biggie.
- January 18, 2010 at 4:34 pm #54523
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Anyone still seeing math captchas? Do you have to do math to post or reply to posts? We updated our forum software and we're hoping that made the problem go away.
- January 18, 2010 at 4:39 pm #54524
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  Testing… Yes – I still see 'Math Required!'
  
  12+1 is eurm… eurmm…
  
  Cheers,
  
  Kris
- January 19, 2010 at 2:21 am #54528
  
  BoydE
  Participant
  
  Yep, still seeing it, sorry for taking so long to reply, but couldn't work out 2 + 1
  
  Using:
  
  OS X 10.4.11 and Safari 4.0.4
  
  OS X 10.6.2 and Safari 4.0.4
- January 19, 2010 at 11:24 am #54531
  
  Kris Coppieters
  Participant
  
  Aha – gone! I don't see the captcha any more!
- January 19, 2010 at 1:30 pm #54532
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  Gone for me too – but now I have another problem.
  
  This is the second time today that I've attempted to write in the forum, from two different computers, using Firefox latest edition.
  
  Both times the forum has locked me out of my Keyboard, i.e., I can't type anything at all, not even in the URL area.
  
  I reckon it's the forum because it's the second time it's happened, on two different computers, and the keyboard becomes active again once I hit a button in the toolbar for replying to posts, like “B” “I” “U” etc.
  
  Weird – any ideas what's going on now?
- January 19, 2010 at 1:36 pm #54533
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  Just tested it again, as soon as I reply to a post the keyboard is frozen out?
  
  However, it's not frozen out in Internet exporer, so seems to be limited to firefox, using XP and Vista. It also only seems to be a problem when replying to posts, editing posts is fine.
  
  And the forum is going extremely slow too – the latest Forum topics are no longer listed on the main forum page either? It's just each sub-forum that's listed:
- January 20, 2010 at 8:10 am #54540
  
  Eelco
  Participant
  
  Yeah, the forum is acting weird lately. Stretched out pagenumbers and such.
- January 20, 2010 at 9:20 am #54547
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  The stretched out page numbers are a feature, not a bug. Though personally I think it's a bug. I don't know why it does that.
  
  We upgraded the forum software on Saturday, and that fixed some problems, but it seems to have generated others for a few people. Eugene, I have no idea why it would have that effect on your computer. Is anyone else having problems typing, or with very slow response?
- January 20, 2010 at 10:25 am #54553
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  Hi David, it doesn't seem to happen all the time, which suggest to me it's a lag in loading the page that the browser freezes. Given that it's happening on two computers with XP and the other with Vista, I can only think that it's something to do with how the forum is loading or when the Post Reply loads sometimes.
  
  I don't really know – I can only offer my observations. I'll keep an eye on it – it could have easily been something else entirely.
- January 20, 2010 at 2:37 pm #54555
  
  Pariah Burke
  Member
  
  That is weird, Eugene.
  
  It's funny, though, that I had as similar experience today with Facebook. I could type into it, but not click any buttons like Share, Comment, and so on. This was in Firefox 3.5.7 on XP. Facebook worked great on the same computer with every other browser (Opera, Chrome, Safari, IE, etc.). I restarted Firefox a couple of times, at which point I couldn't even type into Facebook. An hour later, it worked again.
  
  Both Facebook and this forum are powered heavily by JavaScript. I wonder if Firefox is experiencing issues running JavaScript lately.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:57 pm #54560
  
  Eugene Tyson
  Member
  
  I haven't noticed any update to firefox, and I update manually as a creature of habit lol – what does that even mean?
  
  I don't know Pariah, seems to be limited to Firefox so – I wonder what could cause it, haven't noticed it anywhere else. And I read earlier the site was updated on Saturday. I don't know what it is Pariah, but I'll try to keep a log or something and see if regular paterns show up. Hopefully it's only temporary.
  
  Note: Didn't happen as I wrote this message – so I'll keep invesigating.
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