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    Default Greetings!

    Hey everyone, GM with 30 odd years under my belt, and only recently found this forum, nice to be here..

    A couple of questions:

    1) Is there any plan to update the image verification text for various actions to something more current? It seems to prompt me repeatedly for each search, posting a new thread, pretty much anything, and I'm vision impaired, finding it tough to make out the digits
    2) How does the search work? For example, I was able to find a map of Numa (from 7th Sea) by searching Numa, but when I try to search "7th Sea" nothing is returned, despite that same string being in the title of the Numa post..

    Thanks guys!

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    Welcome to the Guild, I’m glad you decided to join us! Have you done many maps during that time? If so be sure to share your work

    As to your more technical questions, I unfortunately can’t be much help. Somebody closer to the back end management of the site will probably drop in soon though.

    All the best!
    - Josh

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    Hi sh0sh1n,

    Well we were getting complaints about the other way we were doing the image verification with the usual google style thing with the loads of boxes which you keep having to repeatedly click on endlessly for shop fronts and traffic lights etc and it continuously wont verify you, so we changed to this older style. So I dont know any more how to proceed where everyone is happy. We do get a lot of spammers and bots to this site because its been quite popular and people want to peddle their wares and links. Therefore we have to have some kind of system to rebuff the less persistent bots and spammers.

    As for the search I also find it terrible. The best way I search for things is to use either google or duckduckgo and to use the "site" specifier. so if for example you go to duckduckgo and put:

    Code:
    site:cartographersguild.com "7th Sea"
    into the search box then you get a result list which has loads of 7th sea items in it right up to a quilted beadspread of it.

    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=18277

    I find the external search functions much better than this sites built in one.

    Since you have a visual impairment, if you can reply to this post then I will promote you to a guild member without the usual 5 posts since, because of writing this post, I will recall your user name anyway. Also, given your condition, have you found any other aspects of this site which has been hard to see / navigate ? I know of the screen reader software such as JAWS and Orca for example. Do you use any of these and how well do they work for you ?

    Some links:
    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=38392
    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=38136
    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=37192
    https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=10334 (maybe...)
    Last edited by Redrobes; 01-23-2020 at 05:25 PM.

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