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The basic idea seems good.

Regarding the space taken by the Member List, we currently have columns in ProSilver with mulitple items per column (Username/Rank, Website/Location), so maybe you could allow the admin to "stack" profile fields (which currently happens if somebody has both a Website and ...

Since the point of this is to do SEO, it's rather pointless to replace one SEO-poor implementation with another.

While having human-readable urls for humans is nice, in my opinion it is the SEO that makes these changes worthwhile.
Perhaps it's not ideal for SEO, but could you check the topic's ...

I haven't seen an accepted proposal for this. If there was one, I'm sorry -- please link me to it.

I think there's a very simple way to make URLs much more reader-friendly with only minor code changes. I documented this in the phpBB.com topic linked to in the first post, but here's my original ...

One of the benefits of having q&a configured during installation was said to be the fact that q&a would be turned on, as our current configuration process is nontrivial/hard to use/multi-step - take your pick.

Instead of addressing the problem of bad UI by doing configuration during installation ...

That I agree with entirely.
Remember my original post where I said that a default, random question wouldn't be so bad:

Regarding a default question, it's really not that bad. The default CAPTCHA is basically just as easy to break, but at least Q&A would come ready to work (no double selection ...

I presume that the Field name/title presented to the user value would be displayed under the image. That would make it clear that it wasn't a Rank.

You could also turn off the Display on viewtopic screen setting for the image so that the image was only displayed in the user's profile (and possibly ...

phpBB should have the following new Custom Profile Field types:


Image : Allow displaying an image (with user-specified sizing and ALT text -- possibly with some site-specified maximums). Allowing a larger-sized image (with possible lightbox display) would be even better.


URL : Allow ...

If they're generated automatically, thy can be solved automatically.
Not true. The characters and selection criteria are randomized. Just like the examples given, a spambot would still have to figure out which word was important and which characters to select.

With good AI, it could be done ...

If the user chooses to use another CAPTCHA (say a plug-in), there shouldn't be a nag because of that. So maybe only display a nag if one of the other default CAPTCHAs is chosen (with the possible exception of ReCAPTCHA).

Or, perhaps even better, if Q&A CAPTCHA is going to be the default, why not ...

Yep, acknowledge there are plenty of workarounds. After all, I have workarounds in place now because the feature doesn't exist. But each time I engage one of those workarounds, I'm thinking "how much easier it would be if only ..." .
But none of the methods proposed would be as reliable as a ...