Verifying I'm A human
 

I noticed today the sight checked to see if I'm a human. Anyone else notice that?

It's done that to me every time I have clicked the new posts button today too. I guess I need to move less jerky, and talk in less of a monotone if it thinks I'm a robot...

I grew up in the 80's and can still do the robot.

Is this absolutely necessary???

Yep, it took 3-4 seconds for it to get through the verification and open the site. No big deal for me.

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I've been having the site very slow loading, and if I reload then I may quickly get the verify page.

For me problem started 12/22/25.
Endless cycle won’t let me in on Safari for iPad until I used Chrome.

Prior to that, every time I log in, VK immediately logs me out. Second login attempt kept me in. At ARF folks are complaining about login problems with VK.

If it keeps the bots out, AOK with me. Today was the first time I had it pop up and it didn't take long to do its thing.

The problem is this verification checker as it exists on VK at the moment is not programmed to work on all browsers. I don’t like Chrome, prefer my iPad browser.

I’ve seen this checker on other sites which have no problems with Safari. VK still has problems and this checker is a band-aid when VK needs an operation.

I will say this checker is a positive direction to improve VK.

I had to use Chrome on my fire tablet.silk browser doesn't work.if it keeps the site clean of bots,im ok with it.until this change,I noticed lots of new "latest members" logged in with weird user name( probably phoney) for months.lots of new users.now I see no "latest members" with weird user names logged in so far. RonL

This verification is also causing security problems with Firefox when the local security settings are set to strict. If you want to lose more members this is a great way to accomplish this. Moving the VK forums over to OneFora would solve all your security issues and bring it to the modern day. I'm an administrator over there.

Works fine for me on Firefox (on Linux Mint Cinnamon). While I'm not using the strictest security settings I've got things buttoned down fairly tight. I'm also using Ghostery which I highly recommend. It gets rid of much nastiness with minimal side effects. This combination breaks a few websites but not VK.

I'm using Chrome on W7 at a McDonalds wifi hotspot. They have the fastest internet of any of the restaurants around here. (Believe it's fiber optic rather than dial-up.)
BUT I have a problem with verifying that I am human. When I was a little boy my mother would say, why don't you act like a human being?

But I'm... more human than human! :banana:

I think you mean cable not dialup. Dialup is effectively dead almost all the dialup ISPs have turned it off .... It's too slow for most individual PCs on modern websites let alone supporting a multi-user hotspot. DSL might barely be able to support a hotspot but that's ancient too and not widely available anymore either.