[enhancement] anti-bot system

[PhilJbt]

I did not find any roadmap. Is the anti-bot system going to evolve?

Staying in this minimalist spirit, I would think of:

1. Add some dummy mathematical operations the user can't see or se in another order with transparent color/display none/::after/::before/direction: rtl; to the HTML
2. Use HTML/CSS for obfuscation (i.e. this kind of tricks)
3. Use a Python text-to-image lib to write different words in random shades of color, the user would be asked for the word or words in a specific order

[Maniacsan]

Comment by benbristow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33154502

Yeah its easy to answer it automatically

[Demindiro]

The current captcha is indeed very simple. It is intended to keep bots away for a few days at least.

I like the text-to-image captcha. It's simple for users but should be relatively complicated for bots.

I think it would also be useful to allow custom questions, e.g. on the OSDev forums it asks a question that can be answered with info on their wiki.

I believe it would also be useful to automatically hide comments by new users. It won't stop registrations by bots but will keep a forum clean at least.