Add Captcha system to prevent bots

[alexandrevicenzi]

Devise allows Google reCaptcha and I wonder why this is not enabled in the website to (attempt to) prevent bots from spamming Hack Week website.

It seems fairly easy to integrate, any reasons why we don't have it yet?

[hennevogel]

It seems fairly easy to integrate, any reasons why we don't have it yet?

Because this problem is not exclusive to this web application but to all behind the IDP. And because this is not an option for some of the web apps. And... as usually, it's complicated...

This is an open source project, if you want to contribute this, I'd be happy to integrate it 😃

[alexandrevicenzi]

Yes, true, the Hack Week website is not the only one to receive spam, but it also offers no content moderation.

On a short internal discussion, it seems that some are against Captcha because it is an extra step during login. I'm not sure if it would be worth having it or not.

[baldarn]

#1637

there is something I did. can we discuss this?