Ian Wadham wrote: Hello Ian,
for reference, I'm one of the KDE Community Forum adminstrators (aka the "green guys"). > So what CAN I do? This needs major re-phrasing --- hopefully as positives > rather than negatives. This comes from the upstream software we use - phpBB. I admit it's written in a not-so-friendly way, but there's little we can do at this point: mainly because we try (reasonably) to avoid modifying the upstream software too much, because that has a maintenance cost (and we already are short on skilled people and we already have some modifications to the forum software wrt upstream). > I have one. Otherwise, I would have to register a new KDE Identity in > order to reply, for example, to a "maintainer wanted" post(?) Yes, the forum requires a valid KDE Identity login. > more. Another possible turnoff. Speaking for myself, I almost invariably > click away from sites that want you to register, unless I am really, > really interested. Unfortunately, this is unavoidable as forums as large as KDE's attract a whole load of bots, spammers, and other ad-spewers. Even with registration enabled (and checks to external services to prevent obvious spammers) we have to kill several spam posts per day. Also IMO registration is to keep a minimal barrier of entry to prevent flames and other unwanted behavior (granted, the forums behave exceptionally well - few times we've had to poke people to behave). Hopefully this clears things up. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79