Re: the Captcha on the forum:
I worked with a client recently in my day job who uses a ‘transparent’ Captcha tool called Cloudflare Turnstile – this uses some clever method to protect from spam but without the annoying click-on-all-the-traffic-lights popup.
If possible, it might be worth asking M6 Media if they can use this on these forum pages? It looks like M6 Media use this alternative Captcha tool on their own website.
Really appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping the website and forum running!
