Skip to content

Attempts to edit issue are blocked by never ending Captchas

I have been attempting to edit this issue: publishing-reform/discussion#103

I've tried Chrome, Firefox and Brave and get blocked by Captchas in all of them:

Screen_Shot_2020-06-04_at_17.32.43

Here I am asked to select Taxis which is in this case obvious:

Screen_Shot_2020-06-04_at_17.34.20

Incidentally it worked when my update was an empty line.

Now trying again with an actual paragraph to be added:

Screen_Shot_2020-06-04_at_17.36.51

Again, the choice was obvious but failed and directed me to another Captcha:

Screen_Shot_2020-06-04_at_17.38.43

This time the images are of low quality asking for cars that are tiny and dark and my eyes feel strained:

Screen_Shot_2020-06-04_at_17.39.57

One image has cars or something else literally reduced to points. Really hard to see.

Overall I have been attempting to complete this simple update for half an hour getting to stare maybe to over 50 images, many of them are dark, resulting in some headache.

The whole operation was meant to take 10 second in the middle of another edit, and now the sudden blockage threw me out of my work flow.

There is probably something wrong but this just feels like a terrible experience. Even if it can be fixed, it is still terrible even to do it once and it may break similarly again.

I have otherwise greatly enjoyed my experience with Gitlab and it served our community enormously and I would like to continue using it and recommend to others, if these Captchas can be removed and, if really necessary, replaced by something friendlier.

I have also read the instructions below before posting but the following links seems to be broken:

... If you are experiencing an issue when using GitLab.com, your first port of call should be the GitLab.com Support Tracker. Your issue may have already been reported there by another user. Please check: