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Is there an A/B test at play? I don't see anything unusual or GPT-ish about the signup form. The only "unusable" aspect of it is the slightly-more-annoying-than-usual captcha.

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A: https://github.com/signup

B: https://github.com/join

Slightly? I can't make out things easily, on my smaller screen phone.

And it asked me 4 times, before I gave up and just mashed random answers (and got kicked to the start).

It's silly.

I couldn't figure it out so I switched to the audio prompt. It sometimes helps during captchas.

Some audio captchas are just impossible tho, like recaptcha where it's simply impossible to hear what they're saying.

I wish google cared about people with reduced eyesight and listening ability, but no, it doesn't make them any money.

I'm not even sure we're talking about the same captcha. It was just an image grid with some symbols overlaid each cell and it wanted me to pick out which cell had two identical symbols. I found it annoying because it was different from other captcha's I'd seen before so I had to actually mentally process what it was asking, but I certainly didn't find it difficult or inaccessible.

Are others getting something else?

I had a grid of 9 tny mazes, tiny on my phone, and was told to pick which mouse could not get to the cheese.

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