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[Proposal] Use the same question on repeated requests

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Benjaminpick (talkcontribs)

I am using ConfirmEdit with QuestyCaptcha to prevent spam account creation. However it was quite painful to watch a new user trying to register to my site, because he had to re-fill the form several times (password did not match, username already exists, forgot to re-type password) and each time he had to think about the answer of a different question.

To improve usability, I would suggest:

a) saving the selected question in the users' session and providing a link to "show a different question", b) or showing a different question only if it has been answered incorrectly. c) Yet a different approach would be to save the information "this is a human" into the session so that he only ever has to solve 1 captcha, even if the form reloads because of a different error.

For backwards compability, such behavior should be enabled via a config variable.

What do you think? I am willing to write a patch but am currently not sure which is the best approach.

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

The approach followed in latest releases is to avoid reloading the form and the captcha at all if possible. Invalid username is now warned in-place, without submitting the form; something similar can be done for password mismatch; and there was agreement on wikitech-l that the password could be "remembered" upon form reload if the registration fails for other reasons.

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