[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...
Pat David
patdavid at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 18:10:30 GMT 2019
It's enabled. I had written a great response to Andrew, but it's caught up
in the moderation queue because I attached a couple of screenshot images. :(
Long story short, you can use the entire forum as a mailing list if you
want (even just specific categories only). The only thing we haven't
turned on yet is starting new topics by email, but we're probably going to
soon.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:08 PM Leo Gaspard <digikam-users at leo.gaspard.io>
wrote:
> 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
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
>
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