Detect if recaptcha is blocked, if so, notify user more prominently

[trixieleitz]

Title
Detect if recaptcha is blocked, if so, notify user more prominently

Short, concise description of the idea
Sometimes the "prove you're a human" tests on certain pages don't appear, because the user has JavaScript from recaptcha.net blocked. LiveJournal should handle this in a more obvious way.

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Comments

[charliemc]

This absolutely should be the case. The whole Javascript thing can be a bear sometimes...

+1

[trixieleitz]

...apparently it's a common pattern seen in bots.

Maybe so, but it's also a common pattern seen in users with NoScript.

Disclaimer: any snark detectable in this comment is aimed 100% at ReCaptcha :)

[mlady_rebecca]

Thanks for the tidbit. I never realized that.

And, yes, I'm one of those people blocking selective domains with NoScript.

[azurelunatic]

(Since Trixie's AFK right now, I'm the one poking)

Check out the edit with the screenshot. Bot or no, that is just not on.

[pinterface]

It's really not that hard to detect if JavaScript is partially enabled and degrade graceful.

[trixieleitz]

In fact, I discovered after I submitted this entry to the mod queue that LiveJournal does have one page (at least) that degrades to the non-JS version - the logged-out Support request form. So they already have the code to implement this in the way that I'd personally prefer.

[mlady_rebecca]

+1

A message alone should take very little effort to code, and it would relieve a lot of frustration.

[turlough]

Sounds sensible to me.