[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

Pat David patdavid at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 17:46:03 GMT 2019


In fact, I just noticed that my reply to everyone with image attachments
got hung up in a mod queue due to attachment size of images. :(

This wouldn't be a problem on discuss.pixls.us... :D

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:44 AM Pat David <patdavid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> It is indeed a forum.  It's likely different than anything you've used
> previously, though. ;)
>
> [image: 2019-01-24_11-35-05.png]
>
> If you want to watch a specific category, you can navigate to the it and
> click this icon in the top right to change your level of interest and
> notifications.  You can also modify this in your personal settings here:
>
> [image: image.png]
> The good thing is you can basically use the forum entirely through your
> email client, just like a normal mailing list (with the exception of
> starting new posts through email at the moment - we are deciding if this is
> a good idea to turn on).
>
> Does this help?
> pat
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:33 AM Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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