I probably won't make changes in the near future, but I've been thinking about the captcha issue, and I wonder what people think about reCaptcha.
Where reCaptcha is used now, something is required, and AFAIK all other captcha services can be OCRed and are therefore useless. End-users often like SolveMedia, but those seem really easy to OCR. I actually really like the image classification approach on a theoretical level, though I hate relying on NSA-lite Google, and occasionally on Tor they throw you into some insane black hole of difficulty (though you can change your Tor exit to fix that).
It was a necessary step, but to me the most annoying aspect is to enable JavaScript, I run noscript not so much for the added security but because it allows me to load websites faster, that is not much of a problem in the forum but I hate to have enabled anything that is related to Google also sometimes is annoying to resolve a captcha several times especially when there is not a clear answer but that does not bother me that much.