Oh no.

Oh this is gonna be BAD.

Millions of old registration forms are just going to be unfinishable now. Great. Good.

@sc some image hoster got shut down or something?

@rotatingskull @sc
The less invasive and annoying recaptcha method will be discontinued

@Mirzaba @sc okay i looked it up. calls to the old api will no longer be returned soon. so um okay. this seems to be an issue of, if you’re using a distributed system then keep your software up to date type issue right?

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba yes, and the issue is "what happens to old abandoned sites that still work?" you can't keep software up-to-date if the admin isn't managing it anymore.

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc Right. So you were using a computer system that someone else was letting you use for free. They just turned their computer off, and now you’re mad at them. Okay.

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba that's not what the issue is and you know it. it's not as simple as "someone turned their computer off". it's about the ecosystem that's about to be inaccessible.

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc Maybe don’t build an ecosystem on a computer you have absolutely no control over?

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba so, the web shouldn't exist? ok, that seems reasonable

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc All my Websites still work. Somehow I found a way to do it without making calls to random, anonymous machines that they might turn off with no notice. Huh.

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba have you ever visited someone else's website, or do you only ever load your own websites?