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Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts



On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:47:16AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On May 03, 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > [...]
> > What I find concerning is that Discourse (the web application) does
> > not clearly communicate how it shares the data it collects about me
> > with users.  For example, it seems to notify other users that I'm not
> > active on the site, next to my posts, without showing me that
> > information.  
> 
> Web forums have had an "Online" indicator in various flavors for near on
> 2 decades now.  It's a bit pointless to show you that you're online,
> since obviously you're online in order to be reading the posts (unless
> you're not logged in, then you see the little "Offline" indicator
> instead).

FWIW, this is for me, as for Florian, a reason to avoid this kind
of software as much as I can. For how long this is customary is
irrelevant to me.

Cheers
-- t

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