Gosh, to both.
All are welcome to the OLL forum should they so feel like it.
One reason not to open a forum is that there are people who may not want
their postings disseminated and indexed, for whatever reason, even
though this instance is purely a technical discussion platform.
If you want to contribute to the OLL development then I'm afraid you
need to sign up for a github account.
Andrew
On 19/09/2022 6:41 am, anthony wrote:
On 18/09/2022 20:38, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
Requiring an account to post is understandable, but I'd make
any forum public for reading by default unless there are reasons
not to. Subscribing to read posts is not a big barrier, but people
are driven by curiosity, and if you need to take administrative
steps before reading a post it can turn you away.
From my point of view, the FEWER accounts I have the happier I am.
Having to create an account is a massive turn-off that, if I don't
have a burning desire for what's on offer, I just won't bother.
(And what happens if I create an account, forget all about it, and
then try and create a new account six months later? The friction is
greatly increased because I can't create a new account, but can't get
into the old account either ...)
The other thing is, how much personal information does it want? The
best internet security is just not to be on the net - if a site does
not have your information, it can't lose it! Even when I *want*
something, I regularly abandon any attempt half-way through because I
don't want to provide the information they're demanding.
Cheers,
Wol
