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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