Captcha has backwards L. I cannot solve it and I'm a human.

[holdengreen]

The captcha in question.

This was my answer: LgKqR

That was the wrong answer and I only have two more tries.

[lorencerri]

That’s a “J”, not an “L”

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[holdengreen]

Yeah someone just told me. I'm a dumbo. Thanks.

[holdengreen]

Acutally, I want to recommend that you implement an option to request a different captcha. You should do that if you're only going to give people three tries.

[jswainst]

I just had the same issue with the backwards L. I figured out it could be a capital J on the 3rd try, so I got lucky but I'm sure many others have not and would be quite frustrated.

I would recommend removing confusing letters or choose a font that clearly distinguishes the difference. What would happen if someone confused a lower case l and uppercase I?

[Zorotic]

I just had the same issue with the backwards L. I figured out it could be a capital J on the 3rd try, so I got lucky but I'm sure many others have not and would be quite frustrated.

I would recommend removing confusing letters or choose a font that clearly distinguishes the difference. What would happen if someone confused a lower case l and uppercase I?

We already have removed some confusing letters. however we wont be making the font easier to read due to security

[jswainst]

I just had the same issue with the backwards L. I figured out it could be a capital J on the 3rd try, so I got lucky but I'm sure many others have not and would be quite frustrated.
I would recommend removing confusing letters or choose a font that clearly distinguishes the difference. What would happen if someone confused a lower case l and uppercase I?

We already have removed some confusing letters. however we wont be making the font easier to read due to security

Okay well consider removing the capital J then since it really does look like a backwards L and is very confusing. The problem lies in that it doesn't have the J shape. The bottom is a 90 deg angle and a straight line. This makes it quite confusing. Perhaps if the J had a little upward line on the left side of the bottom line it would be more recognizable to people.

I understand the need for security and to make it difficult for bots to answer the captcha challenge. When it's confusing to where a reasonable person can't solve it then you have a problem

[Zorotic]

I just had the same issue with the backwards L. I figured out it could be a capital J on the 3rd try, so I got lucky but I'm sure many others have not and would be quite frustrated.
I would recommend removing confusing letters or choose a font that clearly distinguishes the difference. What would happen if someone confused a lower case l and uppercase I?

We already have removed some confusing letters. however we wont be making the font easier to read due to security

Okay well consider removing the capital J then since it really does look like a backwards L and is very confusing. The problem lies in that it doesn't have the J shape. The bottom is a 90 deg angle and a straight line. This makes it quite confusing. Perhaps if the J had a little upward line on the left side of the bottom line it would be more recognizable to people.

I understand the need for security and to make it difficult for bots to answer the captcha challenge. When it's confusing to where a reasonable person can't solve it then you have a problem

We are taking steps to make sure that issues like this don't happen as often, cause well with randomly generated images its kinda hard to determine if a letter is readable or not.

And to note on your last comment, this is not something that we hear about every day. as its not a huge deal (I'm not trying to downplay that this isn't an issue), but the person can just fail the captcha on-purpose to get a new one, nothing is done to users who fail the captcha other than them getting a new one.

Kind regards,
zorotic@captchabot.xyz
Project Lead & System Administrator

[InsiderPhD]

Hello,

I had a similar issue with the J, I think giving it a slightly rounded bottom would help enormously, while I realise that this is not too much of an issue as generating a new one is not hard, it can lead to someone 'giving up', this is especially true as there's no audio option for the captchas.

[Zorotic]

Hello,

I had a similar issue with the J, I think giving it a slightly rounded bottom would help enormously, while I realise that this is not too much of an issue as generating a new one is not hard, it can lead to someone 'giving up', this is especially true as there's no audio option for the captchas.

We will look at adding something like this in the future rewrite.