As you can see, when they are preparing their article the text tells them to Retype this code here whereas once they try to publish the article they're told that The security code is incorrect and so the 'loop' continues.

This has led people to think that it might be a bug, and I speculated it might be to do with restrictions on free accounts, but as I've now found out it's actually related to which browser you are using.

The above screenshots were taken when I was logged into my free test account and using Internet Explorer. However, when I logged into that same account using Google Chrome as my browser things were quite different as you can see from this next screenshot.

As you can see, beneath the text that tells you to Retype this code here there now appears a reCAPTCHA box, which many of you will have come across on other sites. Simply tick/check the I'm not a robot box and then answer the questions that follow. Once the system software is satisfied that you are indeed not a robot you will be able to either publish your article or save it as a draft to work on and/or publish at a later date.

So, the problem is that for whatever reason the reCAPTCHA section and the questions that follow are not being displayed to people using Internet Explorer which is why they are unable to do what they're being instructed to do.

Now whether this means that Internet Explorer has a problem with reCAPTCHA or it's that the coding within ipernity isn't correct I'm afraid I can't say, but at least what I've discovered goes someway to explaining why some people are having difficulties publishing their articles.

In closing it's worth pointing out that this problem as I've encountered it only relates to free account holders. There is no request for Club members to go through the reCAPTCHA process on either of the two browsers I ran this test on.

So, until such time as the IMA are able to fix the glitch or offer more advice to users I recommend that if you have a free account and you want to publish an article then you need to avoid using Internet Explorer.

If you use Google Chrome (or possibly some other browsers that I didn't test) then you shouldn't have any problems in publishing articles.

Of course the best way to avoid such issues entirely would be to take out a Club membership, but I appreciate that at this moment in time not everyone feels comfortable doing that.