Please explain me how Discourse could be spying on you if you self-host it. Are you sure you're not confusing it with Discord ?
On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 10:27:13 PM UTC+2, GnomeNomad wrote: > > On June 26, 2019 10:15:45 AM HST, Matija Kogoj <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Agreed. >> >> I have also noticed the fragmentation of the community, but I've not >> noticed there being a central authority. This forum seemed to be the >> closest to actual technical support even though I'm still unsure who's >> running the show. >> >> An idea I have been toying with is helping build an awareness of Hugin >> and aiming for something similar to what Blender 3D has become. I had >> intended to create a [new] Hugin Support Group on Facebook complete with >> instructions and tutorials, as exposing more people to the software would >> expand use and probably bring in more programmers to contribute and refine >> the code. >> Having said that there are two problems with that idea - first I do not >> yet possess adequate techincal knowledge of the functionality to offer >> worthwhile advice or solve real issues that would occur. Mostly I'd just >> help with usage hurdles, and second it could possibly cause problems for >> the developers as the development structure is not very clear to me. >> Basically I'm not the best person to lead a group like that. >> >> The software itself is already so good that I prefer it over ptgui! My >> recent projects that have caused me so much grief would not stitch and >> export properly on ptgui - I have no idea why, but hugin at least gave me >> the exrs that you (frequent visitor) know I haven't shut up about for a >> year now. With a few more refinements it could be made into a truly awesome >> tool. >> >> So, in my opinion - a dedicated hub for the community to gather along >> with developers, testers and artists would really go a long way to easing >> the load on the devs, i believe. >> >> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:17:02 PM UTC+2, Caetano Veyssières wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm planning to permanently delete my Google account (let's please not >>> debate that) but mostly, I don't find Google Groups to be a good choice for >>> a community forum. I just found out about the Hugin section >>> <https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/hugin> in discuss.pxls.us and I'm >>> going to go there for now but it's a shame that the community has to be >>> split in half unnecessarily. >>> I think the best way to consolidate a community is to migrate the data >>> from an outdated platform (Google Groups) to a more modern one (e.g. >>> Discourse). This has been done several times >>> <https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=migrate+google+group+to+discourse&addon=opensearch> >>> >>> for other forums and without diving into that subject I can see that tools >>> have been made just for that: >>> https://glot.io/snippets/ehv0azdgrf >>> https://github.com/pacharanero/google_group.to_discourse >>> >>> Personally Discourse is my favorite but almost anything else than Google >>> Groups will do for me (preferably open source) >>> >> > Well, since the original poster wants to move the discussion list from one > spying corporation (Google) to another spying corporation (Discourse), > doing a "new" support group on the worst of the spying corporations > (Facebook) sounds like a no-go from the start. > > David W. Jones > [email protected] <javascript:> > wandering the landscape of god > http://dancingtreefrog.com > > Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/f63892cc-a1b0-4183-bece-9273cba79fb0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
