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Hi there,

I tried to sign up for this site - and almost gave up.
The captcha never showed any text in it.
With leaving the captcha input blank I clicked on the register button and received a e-mail with the activation code.
But when entering this code I always got an error message that the code (I think captcha code) is not valid.

After approx. 80 site refreshes I got a readable / valid captcha but than ran into the 5 minute delay for getting a new confirmation mail :-(

maybe there's a problem with the captcha module

Regards,
Basti

Try a different browser. There is nothing wrong with it. It could have been a server glitch (these things DO happen), but we have had no reports that I no about, except for yours. We will for sure keep it in mind and look into it, but I imagine that its either your system/browser or a small server glitch.

With leaving the captcha input blank I clicked on the register button and received a e-mail with the activation code.

Right off, that will always make issues. Never leave those blank.

Hi and thanks for your reply.
I used firefox on my ubuntu installation and tried it with my nexus tablet - same on both devices.
I'll post some screenshots in a few seconds.

Edit:

Here the captchas:







I see nothing useful in these ...

Edited by BastiFantasti

That is really weird. Have you allowed cookies?

Yes,

cookies are allowed

Can you give me the steps you followed to reproduce the problem? (With a clean browser)

Just for the record: I experienced the same on Linux w. Opera. I had cookies forbidden. After allowing cookies for POL and restarting(!) the browser, things did not work. I had to wait a day(!) until a retry was successful.

Hth.