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Signup form username uniqueness checked only after captcha solved and form submitted

Open benplumley opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

On https://exercism.org/users/sign_up the username field's uniqueness isn't checked until after the captcha has been solved, and the form submitted. If a non-unique username was chosen, the form fails with an error, and the captcha solution is cleared. This means the process of creating a new account involves completing a new captcha for every single username attempted. After trying three usernames (solving six pages of captchas), all of which had already been taken, I've given up trying!

benplumley avatar Nov 23 '22 07:11 benplumley