Re: Fixing regressions and serious issues

[Andrew Bernard]

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