I find it a little odd that is easier to find the founder's email addresses (and email them and get a response) than it is to post a question on the forums website.
First - it appears that you can only log in via federated login mechanisms. It would be an understatement to say that I find such mechanisms problematic and will not use them. I assume there is some straight forward mechanism for creating an account on the forum that I'm just missing. I'm not generally remarkably incompetent when it comes to navigating websites, but I could find no way to create an account. Second - since I can't ask that question without logging in, I attempted to use the site feedback mechanism to ask. You use reCaptcha, which is utterly useless. These tests are always annoying and when so stringent as to be unsolvable by normal human means, they are frustrating and reflect badly on the project. Not to mention it is annoying that you feel it necessary to tell Google via the API every time I want to use your site. I'm not interested in improving Google's marketing profile of me and it isn't user-friendly to covertly ship my data to Google without my permission. In general, all 3rd party APIs are privacy destroying and almost all of them are offered as a service in exchange for the value of the marketing data collected on users to the site on which they are run. That is, it is not out of the goodness of their hearts that Google offers these APIs, it is to generate revenue. I'd suggest that mitigating spam can be accomplished in a privacy-preserving manner with a human test that runs locally. There are plenty of them and they are almost as easy to get running as Google's, for example: http://www.sinawiwebdesign.com/blog/topics/programming/jquery-and-php-and-catcha-tutorial/. -David -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
