[digiKam-users] LinkedIn user group...

Stefan Müller stefan.mueller.83 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 20:06:51 GMT 2019


so LinkeIn or pixl.us?

Am 24.01.2019 um 19:10 schrieb Pat David:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://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
>     <mailto:stefan.mueller.83 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     @Gilles Caulier <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>     <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>> what do you think
>     >>     about pixel.us <http://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>
>     >>     <mailto: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>
>     <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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