I built a discourse today but get many new user registration spam. [image] [image] Many are from the same IP and they don’t pass the email verification. Due to the limited email I can send a day (a free plan), how to prevent this kind of spam? For example, add a CAPTCHA when signing up? Than…

Even though they can’t post, they do some random things such search queries, [Screenshot 2025-03-17 at 4.34.59 PM] or seemingly trying to hack the auth system: Job exception: Net::SMTPAuthenticationError (google_oauth2) Authentication failure! invalid_credentials: OAuth2::Error, invalid_grant: B…

How to prevent registration spam

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livc (Armin Li) October 7, 2019, 4:45pm 6

By the way, how to disable email signup and only allow new user from social login?

Anyway to only allow new user from social login?

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