Exceeded maximum allowed number of login attempt on forum

[zwzsg]

For a few days, whenever I log into the forum, I'm having:

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You exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts. In addition to your username and password you now also have to enter the confirm code from the image you see below.

Is someone attempting to steal my nick?

[Beherith]

Got the same bug. Dont know why. Though the captcha is nigh unsolvable.

[scifi]

i had the same thing up until yesterday now i log fine

[bobthedinosaur]

I have also experienced this in the last few days. Does that mean bots are trying to get into our accounts or just a new forum bug.

[Neddie]

I'm hoping the latter, but we're looking into it. I received a few private messages about it.

[Wombat]

huh, i thought my memory starts to fail D:

also, seriously, these numbers/letters sux so much, can barely read them...

[Forboding Angel]

Get rid of this stupid shit. Programmers are the worst usability idiots... Jesus.

[-andrew]

perhaps this?
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... #p12929879
you could use another CAPTCHA type... like the question challenge one. I like that one.

[BaNa]

I got this too once, the captcha was insane.

[MidKnight]

I saw this, too, a few days ago. Nice to see that the captcha is working!

[SinbadEV]

hardest captcha ever... also yeah, happened to me too.

[SeanHeron]

I had this today - first time.

[Petah]

This just happened to me to. But the challenge was ezpz.

[zwzsg]

Get rid of this stupid shit. Programmers are the worst usability idiots... Jesus.

If that "stupid shit" was gotten rid of, then a spambot would have gotten hold of your account. Is that what you want?

[Pxtl]

You mean it hasn't already? How would we know if Forb was replaced by a spambot?

[zerver]

This is annoying. If bots are trying to log in, it should block only those IP addresses.

Another annoyance is that it only can remember the login on one computer. If you try with a second one, it will forget the first.

[Forboding Angel]

Get rid of this stupid shit. Programmers are the worst usability idiots... Jesus.

If that "stupid shit" was gotten rid of, then a spambot would have gotten hold of your account. Is that what you want?

You're saying a spambot could hack my forum account? My forum password is 14+ characters, mixed lower and uppercase with numbers and symbols. Not fuckin' likely.

[Wombat]

any chance u could remove 0 and O ?

[SeanHeron]

I think the capcha explisitly states that zero - "0" is not used. So it should always be an "o".