/tech/ - Technology★

Better yet: don't use forums.

A list of forums who are trash is something I would approve of though.

https://www.theparacast.com/forum/ - Requires solving ReCaptcha.

https://paranormalis.com/ - Displays an error if given an AirMail (therefore requires real mail, but no manual activation).

https://www.davidicke.com/ - Requires solving ReCaptcha.

http://psiencequest.net/forums/index.php - Requires admin activation, and the cuck admin seems to ban all proxies (removed me twice with a different proxy).

https://www.ketogenicforums.com - Allows registration with an AirMail (no manual activation). Does not ban proxies. But the first post (or maybe more than one) have to be accepted by admin.

Haven't found a good one yet.

https://www.hellboundhackers.org/forum/ - Allows AirMail and proxies. Have to solve a few hacking challenges to be able to post.

Best one so far, I think.

https://hackforums.net/ - Requires solving a ReCaptcha before even SEEING the forum, if using a proxy.

https://forum.salixos.org/index.php - There it is! A forum that doesn't bother you with anything. Allows proxies, AirMail and immediate posting.

Web forums? Nah, that's all dead pozzed fam. We do nntp, telnet BBS, and gopher now.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/forums/ is pretty good. VPN and airmail allowed, but admin has to approve first post.

By the way, I thought about setting up a site with accounts for forums that anyone can claim. So if you have a problem registering somewhere, just claim a ready-made account. Something like bugmenot, but you actually claim the accounts. What does /tech/ think about this?

>>831885

lolno, wilders is pozzed: https://archive.is/7FRMD

>this little ~ Snipped as per TOS ~

>>830989

>telnet BBS

fucking nigger, telnet is clearnet

>>833044

Guess what, this chan and lots of other places go through cloudflare, one of the key surveillance/tracking chokepoints that exist today (besides facebook & co.) So it doesn't make any difference, unless you're posting strictly to independent sites (no 3rd-party cloud layer) that have their own self-signed SSL and not a government-approved CA.

But anyway, telnet BBS is just how it's referred to. You can of course wrap telnet with stunnel, but there again it's kind of dubious if you're using CA and not self-signed cert. You can do ssh BBS too. Anyway the main difference is that it's not the web, and can't be easily crawled by search engines, so it's more private. Also the interface is nicer than web stuff too.

bumpplz

https://www.godlikeproductions.com - ReCraptcha if using a VPN. Otherwise, requires your fucking last name (probably can be faked, but still)

https://www.prisonplanet.com - tried to register twice, the confirming e-mail never came. Probably they didn't like either my VPN, or my tutanota e-mail.

http://forum.bettingadvice.com/ - does not allow registration with any free email, even gmail. Worst of the bunch.

https://ubuntuforums.org/ - recaptcha

https://linuxquestions.org/ - recaptcha

https://sportsbookreview.com/forum/ - recraptcha

https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/ - recraptcha

forums.mozillazine.org - recraptcha

https://www.pokecommunity.com/ - ...of course, it's the pokemon forum that has no restrictions. Allows VPN, airmail and immediate posting. (proof: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=9804424#post9804424)

https://raypeatforum.com/community/ - "Sorry, you've been detected against the why ya hidin' database". Means they ban VPN. Fuck Off. Airmail banned, too.

longecity.org/forum/ - Proxies banned. Recraptcha. Too bad, I love that forum.

http://www.libertariansforum.com/ - have to give reasons for joining the forum? So no airmail then.

https://stormfront.org/forum/ - requires solving "KeyCaptcha", that has dragging some pictures. Didn't bother solving it to see if they ban VPNs or airmail.

So, my conclusions so far are: On over 90% of forums, we cannot fucking talk without submitting ourselves. Either they get our real IP, real e-mail (this is not that bad, I guess), or have to solve dehumanizing recaptcha. Only two forums so far satisfy all my criteria: the salix forum and pokecommunity.

>>833104

Captchas are not just demeaning, they can also identify you by observing patterns in your responses.

>>830955 (OP)

>Category 1 - Proxies / VPNs / Tor banned.

<cesspools like twitter and facebook

>Category 2 - Requires manual activation.

<shitholes full of moderator sycophants

>Category 3 - Requires solving a recaptcha.

<cuckchan, cripplechan and blogspot

>Category 4 - Allows free registration.

<doesn't exist, because the pond scum from the prior three groups would inundate it and drive it offline with concentrated shitposting on top of all the chink spammers of the world

>>833224

>Category 4 - Allows free registration.

<doesn't exist

Welcome to https://voat.co/ . Never mind that this is how motherfucking reddit started out.

>>833226

Disregard this, voat actually added recaptcha.

>>834026

Testing for human input is the purpose of all captcha. The idea is that robots are not allowed.

Also add these:

- Chinese forum engine, everything is ass big emoticons, flags and glittering gold medals

- Outdated web server without https

I think I have to reconsider my position on wilderssecurity. The admin seems to have some problem. I posted two normal posts over a day ago and they are still unapproved.

https://malwaretips.com - recraptcha

https://forum.bodybuilding.com - recraptcha

https://forums.t-nation.com - allows VPN and airmail, but admin has to approve posts. Let's see if they approve mine.

>>834796

T-nation post got approved, so you can post with VPN and airmail.

https://bitcointalk.org - recraptcha

By the way, wilders still didn't approve my post, where I simply mentioned how I view PDFs. So I'm adding it to the shit list.

>>833226

>>Category 4 - Allows free registration.

><doesn't exist

not really a forum but ML at cock mail allows it.

>>835054

>T-nation post got approved

care to share a link to that post?

>>835079

https://forums.t-nation.com/t/anything-new-on-myostatin-inhibitors/236674/2

>forums

sure is REDDIT in here..

>>835077

I have a forum with free resignation and auto tempuser registration for lurkers, but I also ban proxies because there is a schizo among the userbase

>>835194

Can't you ban his e-mail then? Or ban him by cookie or something?

>>835190

Yeah, let's just stick to 8ch that is totally active...

>>835195

there is no email for registration

you set a username and password and that's it

I wish I knew how to do more client-side scripting shit but it's just a LAMP stack with PHP as most of my trashcode to apply avatars etc

>>835197

But you can set a cookie with PHP that has a unique user ID, and then check if it is the schizo's ID before letting him register.

Care to give a link?

>>835198

bronnen.net I just kept adding features to vichan until it was a pile of cancer

>>835204

Pssst....I just posted with a proxy.

>>835210

<DigitalOcean Cloud

noice

if I could somehow automate removal of schizoproxy users my life would be easier

a few thoughts:

- who *doesn't* require recaptcha? and recaptcha is not a big problem, just solve it. Im aware, however, that recaptcha often has issues on tor/vpn ips.

- what about places where they are really gay about their email policy; i.e. no sharklasers/mailinator/disposables, no cock.lis, etc?

- SMS activation. screw that, this is why smspva exists.

>>834041

Recaptcha lets bots through easily. There are only 84 possible answers; all a bot has to do is fire off random guesses through a bunch of proxies. Its real purpose is to collect data ("the reason we're collecting your every mouse movement and keystroke is to use advanced risk analysis to determine you're not a bot, we promise") and empower Google to ban people they don't like.

>>833104

9/10 Recaptcha fails for me. I end up saying "fuck it" and going elsewhere.

>>835190

forums are a bastion of valuable information, or at least, they used to be before CuckOverflow flooded search engine results, and then every shitty "news" site flooded them with "7 bullshit things you don't want to fucking read and don't help you with your problem!"