I'm in the UK and starting today each time I visit this site or open a new topic I now have to verify I'm human by picking out pictures of lions from cats or other similar tests to prove I'm somehow not a robot. .

Is this really necessary?

It seems FT is under a DDOS like attack (again) and cloudflare has gone into defcon 3 mode...

Had to log in yesterday - and now when I go to FT, I get a temporary page saying that that FT need to check the security of my connection.

And whenever I view a thread, and then click back in the browser to return to the forum, it asks if I want to send the form again.

Cleared my caches and re-booted. All browsers, on Mac.

Not just you. It's really annoying.

The "fun facts" about internet security that are displayed while my connection is being checked are also really irritating and completely unnecessary.

Same here on android and chrome, getting fairly annoying with all of the secure connection checks.

Yes it pops up now:
IOS 15.7 Safari from Amsterdam
Since yesterday evening

Agree completely. Bold v unbold made it easy to see read forums. The current design is much worse at this.

Same. I have to log in every time I come to the site, on both Chrome and Safari.

On the topic of the forum icon, the new ones I would say are a strict downgrade from the previous ones. They are more generic so they lack flavor, and they really do look more dated than the past globe icons, while also being less relevant to Flyertalk. As mentioned, they are also harder to distinguish.

The new ones look goofy, like they were drawn by someone's kindergartener

In the name of all that is holy, the priority should be to stop the annoying backwards auto scroll when using the mobile site.

what is going on with IB??

I too am getting the security messages on each page.

And now I cannot upload pictures. Really small pictures. Can they maybe back out the "upgrade" ? Or at least think about it if these issues cannot be fixed.

BTW this is both Chrome and Edge on Windows.

“Performance & security by Cloudflare”. That’s what it says and I can’t but given the mess with having to identity lions and horse countless times and the site hanging up anyway. Can’t even flip back and forth between desktop and mobile views without this “performance” outcome.

From my vantage point, the problems seemed to have started from something that started to roll on Thursday October 20th. What went live on October 20th with Cloudfare use by FT that wasn’t live on October 19th? In the course of the days since, the site has become less easily usable for some. It does seem to me to be more hostile to iOS device than non-iOS devices, but it’s messed up either way.

Perhaps FT should open up a thread to have people privately post a list of Ray IDs where the posts are masked except to FT/IB admins and the members’ own posts in the thread?

I've been getting those since mid-August. I was also constantly getting offers to log into a beta FT site since mid-August, so I wonder if I was just an early adopter of all this mess.

BTW from the Manage Attachments window, when I try to upload a small jpg file, it comes back with "Upload of file failed". No explanation why.