Hello David,
Le Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:40:40 +0300, David Gessel <[email protected]> a écrit : > 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 Actually posting on the forums really amounts to posting on a mailing list. You use Nabble (what you see as a forum) but I answer on a mailing list. You can subscribe directly to the mailing list without any sort of federated login. Anyway, answering your question about federated login, I don't think you need things like that. See here: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/nabble-mailing-list-interface/ Hope this helps, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- 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
