Cohere reCaptcha-ed

Alex May 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, we discovered that some of the users on Cohere were actually spam, the usernames were random characters and the descriptions on these users profiles consisted entirely of links for loans, pills etc (all the usual spam). To try and stop this happening again I’ve added reCaptcha to the user registration form.

This was really easy to implement, the only slight change I had to make was to fix the code so requests to the recaptcha servers went through our proxy (shame there aren’t optional params to add proxy details – but easy enough to fix).