Wrong Year for Post Verification Question

[MarcNJ]

It's Jan 6th, 2024 - how is it possible this board/forum still thinks it is 2023 and that is the correct answer for "What is the current year?" when posting??

[DavidR]

It is a very long time since I have had to do that and now that you have 3 posts (anti-spam measure) you shouldn't have to do this again.

I don't know if this is a forum software issue (not provided by Avast but SMS) or down to Administrators to change or not.

EDIT: Just checked a list of my recent posts and that is showing the correct year.

[MarcNJ]

There must be some disconnect between the year for the anti-spam measure, and the year listed for posts/replies.  Or they are just totally separate fields / systems.

[DavidR]

Its hard to say as an Avast User, ordinarily you have to log-on to connect to the forum that although allows connection to your forum account (though I believe it is checked on id.avast.com not internally on the forum).

Posting checks/validation used to be done using Captcha, many complained this was too difficult and had several attempts to get it right.  So I don't know if this is a replacement or addition to Captcha as it is around 20 years since I was a Newbie and had to go through this.

[NON]

This issue is there for years, and we had this kind of topics before.
Afaik it's up to Admins for changing answer for "current year" question.

[Gayathri_R]

Hi,
Thank you for posting on the Avast community. Do you mind sharing screenshots? Thanks.

[NON]

Hi,
Thank you for posting on the Avast community. Do you mind sharing screenshots? Thanks.

Hi Gayathri_R, this is from 2021 but I believe it is still the same...

[PoetsWife]

Yes, the captcha form is asking for the current year and it won't accept 2024. It is now 10 January 2024.

[Milos]

Hello,
thank you for notice. I have changed it to 2024 now (I did not know I can do it ;-)).

Milos

[NON]

Hello,
thank you for notice. I have changed it to 2024 now (I did not know I can do it ;-)).

Milos

Thanks!

[DavidR]

Hello,
thank you for notice. I have changed it to 2024 now (I did not know I can do it ;-)).

Milos

Thanks, I would have expected the 'Administrators' to have jumped on this much sooner as we also reported it in another location.

[mchain]

Another current example:  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=326073.msg1714234#msg1714234

New user has two posts.

[DavidR]

Another current example:  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=326073.msg1714234#msg1714234

New user has two posts.

That post though pre-dates the fix by 'Milos' so when they come up for the third post it shouldn't occur.