Akismet 5.0 not compatible with Ajax login

Thanks for the report; I’ll investigate this today.

I’m still looking into it, but signs are pointing towards it being primarily due to another plugin’s code, as the offending code in Akismet can be reduced to this, which follows best practices for executing code 250ms after the mouse stops moving:

var myTimer = null;

document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', function () {
        if ( myTimer ) {
                clearTimeout( myTimer );
                myTimer = null;
        }

        myTimer = setTimeout( function () {
                // Do some things here.

                clearTimeout( myTimer );
                myTimer = null;
        }, 250 );
} );

If you replace akismet-frontend.js with a file that only contains this, it still breaks the login modal popup. In fact, even just this code, which does essentially nothing, will break it:

document.addEventListener( 'mousemove', function () {
        setTimeout( function () { }, 250 );
} );

I’m continuing to investigate.

I’m curious — if you add a Login link somewhere in the page so that it’s not hidden behind a hamburger menu, does that work? Some of what I’m seeing suggests that dropdown menu code in the Listable theme is interfering.

At this point, without cooperation from Listable, I don’t think we can fix this, so I’m going to close this thread. But if you do hear back from them, please reply here and we’ll see what we can do.

That’s great! Thanks for the update.