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Notice to site admins
So Prod had to change our captcha because the one we were using disappeared. It's a real shame, because not only was that captcha incredibly difficult (if not impossible) for bots to solve, it really served a great purpose for the adoption of animals without homes. We've defaulted to a rather vanilla system and I am very suspicious of the flood of new users. Too many of them consist of a first-name-last-name combination, and this just isn't typical of users. So be on alert for an increase in spam, and Prod is going to look into a stronger captcha alternative in the meantime. Thanks for your continued efforts to keep this site in great shape!  Pro cyon  13:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for dealing with the issue man, I was someone who was unable to sign up due to the problem - I hope it doesn't cause too much extra work on y'alls part. Based on what Microsoft has posted, Asirra was shut down because it was no longer considered secure because it's apparently easier for bots to identify animals than letters, which boggles my mind.


 * Might I reccomend Google's reCAPTCHA service as an alternative? It seems to be in use everywhere these days and my understanding is the images it uses are ones that even Google's OCR can't figure out, which seems like a pretty high bar to me.
 * Kyjibo (talk) 01:13, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Asirra was actually working quite well for us with a minimal spam able to get through. We actually switched to it when reCaptcha was broken 3 years ago, and we were getting tons of spam.  I'm going to be trying something else soon, so stay tuned! -- Prod (talk) 03:29, 24 October 2014 (UTC)


 * ReCaptcha can be easily broken, simply because it's a well known target. The simplest way is relaying the captcha to an equivalent of a sweatshop, even just ~30 being solved/day/person is enough to allow spambots to get through and hit most known wikis.  That said, I've seen an implementation on dandwiki.com, which is ReCpatcha + javascript computation, and a result of practically no spambots despite being well known enough and having public IP editing. --Sigma 7 (talk) 06:59, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I've activated a new captcha system. If anyone comes across it, please let us know how you find it. -- Prod (talk) 17:33, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

OUYA button images
Hello! I go by Bluestarultor online and have an open offer for you. While I see you aren't covering OUYA games at this time, a quick search showed it was at least in one of your admins' talk pages and a table in another user's sandbox. I'll admit I've borrowed a lot of button images from you guys for use on Final Fantasy Wiki and thought I'd return the favor by offering the images I created for OUYA. It's probably more than anyone will ever need and I'm not sure the look or quality is up to your standards, but the individual pages provide brief descriptions if you're not sure what my intent was. I also realize you tend toward making button presses blue and that I used orange to keep more toward OUYA's color scheme. I'm explicitly granting you exclusive permission to modify them for your own uses here in whole or in part. There should be enough "blank" bases for you to work with (and it should be easy enough to color shift most of it since all the grays are pure grays) and I can provide additional base images to work with if needed. :)

If you have any questions or other items, feel free to ask on my talk page over there and let me know how you'd like to continue communicating. 24.183.93.10 17:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Those look pretty good. We wouldn't use the button press images. We usually just say "press ". Your depiction of button pressing is ambiguous unless you are using a symbol that is backed by officially by a developer or Ouya, Inc. We could use most of them here, for sure.


 * As far as Ouya guides available here, no one has yet had an interest. Since you spoke up, I created the basics. The category now exists, and the games list can now be populated. Feel free to start guides by clicking on a red link, or going to the game's title and creating the page that way. Use the Main game pre-load button to fill in the infobox, Continue Nav, and ToC. -- 00:45, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Address verification email was never received
I signed up the other day, but I never received the email to verify my address. Is that working properly? I've tried resending it twice now, but no luck. What gives? Can an admin check it out? --JimTheta (talk) 22:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've double-checked my email address; it's correct.
 * No, it's not in my spam folder.
 * My email is Gmail-hosted, so I'm sure it's not getting wrongly rejected.
 * Please check now. -- Prod (talk) 14:27, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I got mails from all 3 of my attempts now. Looks like you solved it for me.  Hopefully the problem is solved site-wide.  Thanks. --JimTheta (talk) 15:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yea, the mail sending process had stopped. I started it back up and it processed everything that was pending.  Thanks for the heads up! -- Prod (talk) 15:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Image requests
We need additional Sega Saturn SS control buttons for L, R, and Start. We also need a non-hold version of the cade button for Down, then Up:. If anyone can help with those I would really appreciate it. -- 18:13, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Diff change text padding cutting off bottom 10% of each line
Has anyone noticed this CSS glitch in Dolphin? When you go to a diff with a block of text, it will be hard to see the bottom of commas, g's, q's, or anything under the bottom line. I've narrowed it down to "td.diff-addedline .diffchange, td.diff-deletedline .diffchange". I am going to make the change to fix it. I tested and it is an issue in IE11, Firefox 33.1.1, and Chrome 39.0.2171.65 m. -- 17:27, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Yay! This is something that has been bugging my eyes when patrolling diffs since I switched to Dolphin. -- 18:05, 21 November 2014 (UTC)