The registration page for this forum is a mess.

First, if you enter a bad value in the ‘security image’ text field, do you get a nice friendly message telling you to retry? No, you get sent directly to Google!

My god that’s just what I wanted! How did it know…??

Secondly, if I enter some other detail incorrectly, when the form reloads the age section shows some totally random and inconsistent states:

Oh look, the other fields have disappeared. And somehow it ended up like this as well:

The two other fields are disabled. To enable them I have to select a *new* year, then change it back to the old one.

I know you didn’t design this software but it’s still a problem. And I’ll be honest, as a software developer it looks like you’ve chosen the cheapest and nastiest forum software you could find.

If you want users to really use this thing and give feedback, the barrier to entry has to be as low as possible. I almost gave up myself.

Mike