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Nice work :)

One piece of feedback: Could you add some explanation (for humans) what we're supposed to do and what is happening when met by that page?

I know there is a loading animation widget thingy, but the first time I saw that page (some weeks ago at the Gnome issue tracker), it was proof-of-work'ing for like 20 seconds, and I wasn't sure what was going on, I initially thought I got blocked or that the captcha failed to load.

Of course, now I understand what it is, but I'm not sure it's 100% clear when you just see the "checking if you're a bot" page in isolation.

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> One piece of feedback: Could you add some explanation (for humans) what we're supposed to do and what is happening when met by that page?

Will do! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/25

also if you're using JShelter, which blocks Worker by default, there is no indication that it's never going to work, and the spinner just goes on forever doing nothing

Noted! I filed a bug: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/38

All of this is placeholder wording, layouts, CSS, and more. It'll be fixed in time. This is teething pain that I will get through.

Maybe a progress bar?

There's no way to really make a progress bar make sense, it's a luck-based mechanic.

Maybe one of those (slightly misleading) progressbars that have a dynamic speed that gets slower and slower the closer to the finish it gets? Just to indicate that it's working towards something

It'll be somewhat involved, but based on the difficulty vs the clients hashing speed you could say something probabilistic like "90% of the time, this window will be gone in xyz seconds from now"?

Yeah, I have to get the data for that though! I'm gonna add that to the list.

more, easier proof of works

and the law of large numbers will do the rest

That's multiplying the work the server has to do by a large number so it can show a nicer progress bar.

Seems very counter to the purpose.

So just like the windows copy dialog. Progress bar it is.

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