Re: [libreoffice-website] Website issues

Hello David,


Le Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:40:40 +0300,
David Gessel <gessel@blackrosetech.com> 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,

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