New (or no) captcha

[dostro]

The problem:
A substantial number of users have been complaining about the captcha working unreliably on first attempt. Also people hate captchas.

Discussion suggestions:

• Improve first-use reliability
• More user-friendly captcha than text input
• Implement private access tokens so that users on supported devices/browsers won't need a captcha at all

[frederikrothenberger]

Hi @dostro

Thanks for raising this issue. The captcha served by II seems to me to be an II-specific issue that is better addressed in the II repository directly instead of the working group (which deals with IC platform related questions).

--> Transferred to II repository.

[nmattia]

A substantial number of users have been complaining about the captcha working unreliably on first attempt. Also people hate captchas.

Yeah, this is quite bad. The CAPTCHA was introduced as a stop-gap measure until "People Parties", but ... yeah. I think it's time we look for a more long-term solution.

Implement private access tokens so that users on supported devices/browsers won't need a captcha at all

Thanks for the great read! Didn't know of those. Support still seems to be limited but I'll try to dig out more info.

EDIT: links for future reference:

• https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
• https://www.fastly.com/blog/private-access-tokens-stepping-into-the-privacy-respecting-captcha-less