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Does anyone have thoughts on hCaptcha? Gitea gets absolutely flooded with spam signups without a captcha, but I'd really like to make registration open again 
@f0x if you're interested, I think @forestjohnson grew his own proof of work captcha. Not sure the state of it, but thought I'd mention.
@starless @forestjohnson oh yeah, I remember that!
Sadly it seems these are people manually creating spam accounts, so none of these solutions really work, short of doing approval based signups :|
You are getting spam signup requests from real people? How do you know it's real people and not bots, if you don't mind me asking? I used to have open signup on my old gogs instance and I got hundreds of signups, but none of those users ever did anything. I think they were all bots as far as I could tell.
I was hoping to make a works-without-login version of gitea one day, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to deal with moderation at least for a while (until the gitea server gets much more popular) because the PoW Captcha (https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha) would filter out the bots, and right now I don't think anyone cares about my git server, let alone knows that it exists 😞
@forestjohnson @starless the majority doesn't do anything, but quite a lot of them also create profiles, repos and organizations with various spam messages
I think they're real users because my simple hidden form technique didn't stop them at all. Could also just be more sophisticated botting tho
@forestjohnson @starless code is now on https://git.pixie.town/f0x/gitea-registration-proxy, should be easy to tweak :)
biggest downside is with just a custom template you can't really get feedback in the html, hence also why a failed haiku sends you to a very bare page