[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

[Leo Gaspard]

I haven't checked this one in particular, but in Discourse in general
there is an option in the preferences to turn on mailing list
mode. Unless it's been disabled by the admins, I don't know.

Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk> writes:

> OK, I have just been playing about with https://discuss.pixls.us/
> My problem with it is mainly that it seems to be just a forum. I can 
> find no way to subscribe to a category in order to get emails for new 
> topics. This makes it a pull only website. That is too much trouble for 
> me. I need push so that things I want to know about get sent to me and 
> land in my email inbox. I have better things to do than visit a bunch of 
> websites, click refresh on each and try to work out what has changed.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
> Otherwise it all looks good. There is useful stuff on there.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 24/01/2019 08:02, Mica Semrick wrote:
>> We'd love to have all you wonderful people on pixls.us! I'd like to 
>> think we are a less creepy platform than LinkedIn as well. We have the 
>> social login feature and a bunch of good people!
>> 
>> - mica
>> 
>> On January 23, 2019 11:34:10 PM PST, Stefan Mueller 
>> <stefan.mueller.83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>     @Gilles Caulier <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com> what do you think
>>     about pixel.us <http://pixel.us>
>>     @Simon Frei, writing is a bit more comfortable in the app but the
>>     main point is, that you have all your discourse in on app, easily
>>     accessible and notification pop up only there if you want (as I want)
>> 
>>     Le mer. 23 janv. 2019 à 09:34, Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:freisim93 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>> 
>>         According to reviews this app is just a webview of discourse. Which
>>         isn't bad, but you can just as well open it in your favorite mobile
>>         browser (which works pretty well, apart from the terrible
>>         typing, which
>>         is unrelated :) ).
>> 
>>         On 23/01/2019 09:27, Stefan Müller wrote:
>>          > it looks like pixel.us <http://pixel.us> runs a
>>         https://www.discourse.org/ instance,
>>          > that's great :), the only thing what is missing is the mobile
>>         API to
>>          > access it with
>>          > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discourse.
>>          >
>>          >
>>          > On 23.01.2019 09:11, Remco Viëtor wrote:
>>          >> On mercredi 23 janvier 2019 08:13:30 CET Stephane Ascoet wrote:
>>          >>>> I asked the German Wikipedia for LinkedIn, especially the
>>         criticism.
>>          >>>> LinkedIn sends unsolicited invitation emails to
>>         non-members, if not
>>          >>>> responding, re- prompts. I have already received 2
>>         invitations from
>>          >>>> you,
>>          >>>> which you probably did not even initiate. ((:-)) It is
>>         interesting,
>>          >>>> to an
>>          >>>> e-mail address, which I used perhaps 1 or 2 times
>>         provided. LinkedIn
>>          >>>> probably read your e-mail history. I think there are no
>>         serious social
>>          >>>> networks in this world.
>>          >>> Hi, I fully agree. When I was on LinkedIn, I saw in my
>>         "proposed
>>          >>> contacts" at least one people I didn't want to see(for
>>         personnal and
>>          >>> complicated reasons I won't reveal here). The only way to
>>         make the link
>>          >>> was to read her address book(or worse). I write "worse"
>>         because, yes, I
>>          >>> couldn't think they could do such a thing than reading
>>         mail, but I read
>>          >>> or heard something about this. I though it was on this list
>>         but after
>>          >>> verification, it seems not. It was about an attorney
>>         service. They
>>          >>> don't
>>          >>> have the right to talk to the opposite side, or it could
>>         create very
>>          >>> bigs problems. However, the opposite side received an
>>         invitation to
>>          >>> join
>>          >>> this attorney's network. It created huge problems, they had
>>         much
>>          >>> work to
>>          >>> calm the hurricane it made in the justice institutions. The
>>         only way to
>>          >>> make the link between both of them was to read mails where
>>         opposite
>>          >>> side's adress was written in the attorney box.
>>          >>>
>>          >>> I closed my account(after having send a mail to my contacts
>>         that
>>          >>> probably did have no effect) when I realized that this site
>>         with a
>>          >>> professional layer were in fact just like the other ones
>>         and I don't
>>          >>> understand why so much activist geeks are on it, especially
>>         because I
>>          >>> don't have the feeling that employers use it so much in
>>         france(but I
>>          >>> may
>>          >>> be wrong).
>>          >> LinkedIn indeed tend(ed) to spam others, based at least on the
>>          >> address book of
>>          >> members.
>>          >> To the best of my knowledge, I do not have an account on
>>         LinkedIn.
>>          >> They seem
>>          >> to agree, as I used to get regular invites to join LinkedIn,
>>          >> supposedly from
>>          >> members/through members. Although that practice seems to
>>         have calmed
>>          >> down
>>          >> lately.
>>          >>
>>          >> So, please do not replace this list by anything like
>>         LinkedIn, until
>>          >> such
>>          >> methods are abolished.
>>          >>
>>          >> Remco
>>          >>
>>          >>
>>