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What the deal with the Captcha? If you want people to answer the Captcha why don't you put it on the first log-on screen?

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It's now switching to recaptcha, Google's captcha, now which doesn't want to work more than half the time on a vpn alone, worse on TOR. And I'm betting that Google will find a way to rip it from the site anyway so the one in your picture that I was getting earlier should be the only one. Though understandably I don't see this being changed for a few days or more with Null's situation.
 
cross-posting this from the kf reviews thread, by suggestion:

kiwifarms.net is now identifying as a teapot. archive

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cross-posting this from the kf reviews thread, by suggestion:

kiwifarms.net is now identifying as a teapot. archive

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Null said that Cloudflare was providing him with a way to migrate the domains to another registrar, so if it's not still showing the Cloudflare terrorism block page I'd take that as a good sign.
 
It's now switching to recaptcha, Google's captcha, now which doesn't want to work more than half the time on a vpn alone, worse on TOR. And I'm betting that Google will find a way to rip it from the site anyway so the one in your picture that I was getting earlier should be the only one. Though understandably I don't see this being changed for a few days or more with Null's situation.
Having to complete that crap for 15 times before logging is infuriating
 
I don't see the necessity for capcha at all since we're on invite only anyway. Is it just automatic when the site detects strange network activity? It feels like that shouldn't be on for the TOR site.
Jersh said that are a lot of attempts to bruteforce accounts, now I'm not technically savvy enough to know if the captcha helps with those, but maybe that's the reason
 
Jersh said that are a lot of attempts to bruteforce accounts, now I'm not technically savvy enough to know if the captcha helps with those, but maybe that's the reason
Requiring a captcha for every login attempt makes it basically impossible to brute-force a login. A script can pretty easily be set up to run hundreds of login attempts per second, but it's completely stopped in its tracks if a captcha is required for every attempt and the script isn't able to solve the captcha.

I assume that the error message that people were getting trying to log in shortly after the site came back online the other day was a result of some attacker running a script/bot that was using virtually every Tor exit node to repeatedly try to guess account passwords.

If you don't already, use a password manager to generate a very strong, long password that has no resemblance to any dictionary word or phrase (no "l33t" speak -- it's trivial to have a computer guess those combinations). Write it down or use a password manager to remember it. If it's simple enough for you to remember, it's probably not a strong enough password.
 
When attempting a password reset, the email link goes to the .net domain only, meaning it just gets you the Cloudflare block page. I'm only able to post this because I remembered I had a password keeper app
I think this issue also is what is affecting the confirmation after changing the email address associated with an account. After clicking the "confirm email" link sent by the mailbot, it leads to the following error message:
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I am posting this with a lurk account I had forgotten I had, so I just wanted to give a heads-up to anyone else before they tried to change emails.
 
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Having to complete that crap for 15 times before logging is infuriating
Just experienced this. Flopped between regular tor browser and brave's, connected through tor bridges and that made the login too slow for the capcha to even work before needing "reverification". Ended up just getting in by doing it over and over again in brave tor. I don't get why the site has stopped showing the built in capcha at all.
 
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The kiwifarms.top domain has been really slow so far, to the point of not really being usable. It took several attempts to post this very response. Not sure if that's due to DDOSing or something else.

Nevertheless, it's still better than nothing, and I'm impressed by Null's efforts. Hopefully things will improve.
 
The kiwifarms.top domain has been really slow so far, to the point of not really being usable. It took several attempts to post this very response. Not sure if that's due to DDOSing or something else.

Nevertheless, it's still better than nothing, and I'm impressed by Null's efforts. Hopefully things will improve.
I was having a lot of trouble with .top as well, Tor (thru Brave) has been much better. I occasionally need to force it to reset/refresh the connection, but then it stays stable for a while.
 
It looks like I can rate with T&H-only stickers.

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It will give me an error message if I try to use them, but still, weird.
Yeah I see them too. It's happened a few times in the past, same thing, you see them but can't actually use them. Whatever the reason, it's usually sorted out in a day or two.
 
How about replacing all kiwifarms URLs in posts with the domain the user is currently on? So change all [kiwifarms|uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd].[net|top|ru|onion]/threads/blah-blah links to the current domain, without actually editing the post. It can be done client-side with a script.

This is a necessary band-aid as the forum situation continues to change rapidly.
 
What happened to the clearnet .top address? And why is the TOR address running so slow too? Are both getting DDOS'd?
Sites running pretty iffy for me on tor now, it was actually fast when I was having the other issues, which are surprisingly gone now. Trade offs. There don't appear to be more people on here right now, though tor is untracked, ddos would seem more likely.
 
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