[NTLK] Requiring registration to download?

Aaron Brigati abrigati at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 19:38:57 EDT 2017


I click the checkbox and get a popup with 'Select all the images of a shop front, click verify once there are none left'.

I always get that with these sorts of captchas. It might be because I run an adblocker.


> On Apr 9, 2017, at 19:25, Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Cool that i show up first for that search. :) I will make the password requirements easier but i don't know what you mean about the captcha, it should be a nocaptcha that just has a checkbox. If you didn't sign up i have a problem that needs to be addressed...
> 
> Marisa
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>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 4:20 PM, Dan <dan at dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What surprises me is why they would even bother.  It is not like
>> interactive fiction is the 'in' thing right now.  And nor are you at the
>> top of a search of interactive fiction (unless you search interactive
>> fiction newton, then Newton City is at the top of the list).
>> 
>> Also can there be that many bots wanting interactive fiction to download
>> every day?  Just seems a bit weird to me, but I agree if you have a
>> simple log in to download that is okay.  Not ideal, but you can't have
>> bots sucking all your bandwidth either.
>> 
>> But I will say you go a bit overboard with the password requirements.
>> Also requiring birthday, etc seemed a bit much.  Captcha was much more
>> difficult than usual too as several times I didn't know what it was
>> asking (it asked for flats and I didn't realize it meant apartment
>> buildings) or the pictures weren't clear.  On the good side bots won't
>> get past all of that.  On the bad side I gave up registering for now lol.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/9/2017 5:28 PM, Marisa Giancarla wrote:
>>> Yes, it shows the files and descriptions, just does not have a download button and says that a login is required to download...
>>> 
>>> Marisa
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