Decenber, 2021: Monthly Report
Posted December 23, 2021 by Aravinth Manivannan ‐ 2 min read
Last Edited December 24, 2021
We are mCaptcha. We build kickass CAPTCHA systems that give (DDoS) attackers a run for their money. And we do all of this without tracking your users. Oh and did I mention our UX is great?
Hello and welcome to the first edition of the monthly report!
I believe free software like mCaptcha is critical to a healthy internet +but being a one-person show, there’s hardly any accountability in the +way software is built. I hope, through monthly reports, I can explain +the logic and intentions behind decisions taken in the development +process.
This month, the following things were accomplished:
1. Full LibreJS Compliance
The CAPTCHA widget and the admin dashboard are 100% LibreJS compliant!
2. JavaScript PolyFill
mCaptcha relied on a WebAssembly(WASM) port of the proof-of-work +algorithm used in mCaptcha. This meanth browsers without WASM support +couldn’t process CAPTCHAs. This month, a pure JavaScript(TypeScript, +technically) implementation was released to +overcome this limitation.
3. Integration libraries for Vanilla JS, React and Svelte:
To make migration from existing CAPTCHA deployments to mCaptha, +integration libraries for Vanilla +JS, React +Js and +Svelte with +similar APIs very similar to that of Google’s reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare’s +hCaptcha.
- Source code: mCaptcha/glue
4. Beginner friendly CAPTCHA configuration options.
The original configuration panel offers a comprehensive but daunting +task for folks that are justgetting started with mCaptcha.
A new CAPTCHA creation format is rolled out which generates a +configuration from familiar metrics like average, peak and traffic that +took the user’s website down.
Of course, the advance option is available and can always be swished to +at any moment!