GoBerserk
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I understand the site often struggles and maybe captchas for every giveaway is an attempt to reduce site load. But if that is the purpose it absolutely isn't working. I'm getting "try again in a few minutes" all the time right now, and sometimes 500 errors. This change did not improve site performance at all.
Besides that, it's making it ridiculous to try to even enter giveaways. It's taking upwards of 20 seconds sometimes for the captcha on a giveaway to even appear in the first place (I litterly timed it because the delay was happening almost every giveaway). Then you have to do something like click every box with a street sign, then (still same giveaway) you have to do another one like click every box with a car in it. This makes trying to enter just just one single giveaway take close to a minute if it's really slow.
And this happens on every giveaway?
Let's pretend the site wasn't even having any problems at all. Is it really reasonable in any way to make people do two sets of captcha for every giveaway? Would you use a site yourself where you had to do that every giveaway, every time? Would you?
I have honestly never seen a site use so many captchas in my life. All this is doing is wasting time.
If this is to improve site performance it does not work. If this is an attempt to block some kind of automated entry of giveaways, there has to be a more sane way of doing it that does not make it a pain for legitimate users to enter giveaways. If it is IG's goal to change the giveaways section so that it is as unusable as possible even when the site is working properly, then they may have succeded.
I don't normally rant like this. But two sets of captchas per giveaway, every giveaway. I'm 99.99% certain there is no other site anywhere that handles giveaways like this. And unlike site errors, this looks like a deliberate (and absolutely overkill) disrespect for people's time.
Besides that, it's making it ridiculous to try to even enter giveaways. It's taking upwards of 20 seconds sometimes for the captcha on a giveaway to even appear in the first place (I litterly timed it because the delay was happening almost every giveaway). Then you have to do something like click every box with a street sign, then (still same giveaway) you have to do another one like click every box with a car in it. This makes trying to enter just just one single giveaway take close to a minute if it's really slow.
And this happens on every giveaway?
Let's pretend the site wasn't even having any problems at all. Is it really reasonable in any way to make people do two sets of captcha for every giveaway? Would you use a site yourself where you had to do that every giveaway, every time? Would you?
I have honestly never seen a site use so many captchas in my life. All this is doing is wasting time.
If this is to improve site performance it does not work. If this is an attempt to block some kind of automated entry of giveaways, there has to be a more sane way of doing it that does not make it a pain for legitimate users to enter giveaways. If it is IG's goal to change the giveaways section so that it is as unusable as possible even when the site is working properly, then they may have succeded.
I don't normally rant like this. But two sets of captchas per giveaway, every giveaway. I'm 99.99% certain there is no other site anywhere that handles giveaways like this. And unlike site errors, this looks like a deliberate (and absolutely overkill) disrespect for people's time.
