Commenters have likely noticed a message that Captcha is being discontinued at the end of March. No new version is available, so this may interrupt normal service for a time while we come up with a solution.
As best as we can determine, that solution involves a transition to a new platform, along with archiving the old content. (The database has ballooned to 26,170 entries along with 784,454 comments.)
Which is a good thing. We’ve limped along on Movable Type for much longer than we thought we could, but it’s becoming suckier with every passing year. But I’ll update when I have more information, likely in a week or two.
Thanks Lance (as someone mentioned here yesterday).
Commenters have likely noticed a message that Captcha is being discontinued at the end of March. No new version is available
What?
reCaptcha v2 is absolutely available: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#what-happens-to-recaptcha-v1
If you don’t want to use a Google service because they’re evil, that’s fine, but “no new version is available” is incorrect.
We’ve limped along on Movable Type for much longer than we thought we could, but it’s becoming suckier with every passing year.
The current version of Movable Type can absolutely handle a database of this size; if you don’t want to pay $500USD for the upgrade, that’s a fair decision, but I would bet a passing of the tip jar could raise that from the regulars in about twenty minutes.
Thanks Kate and Lance.
That reminds me…time to tip the jar.
Sounds like a good move. Only one small request… please, please, please implement a system that will allow us to go back and edit what we posted in comments.
What DaveK said, and thanks for the reminder Old Aquarian.