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#1 Re: Programs, Apps » Promoting Jabber / XMPP use » 2017-02-14 17:54:07
Some time last year, I sent myself a link to https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/ … and-others which discusses some similar topics.
#2 Re: Forum admin » Please suggest any new categories you want » 2017-02-06 09:56:32
A captcha for login and registration would be a good idea.
Only if it's a real captcha and not a physical ability test like Google's evil one.
#3 The Social Room » User numbers? » 2016-12-06 10:40:21
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So it seems like it's been a while since the last post. Are there enough users to kick-start this forum (it seems only 8 people have ever posted, although there's 11 pages of registered users), is more promotion required or is something else needed?
#4 Re: Programs, Apps » Promoting Jabber / XMPP use » 2016-11-30 11:57:09
I should have mentioned Conversations for Android (fairly slick and has OTR but fairly large) and I think Pidgin on Gnome can do XMPP too but I don't remember if it does OTR - anyone know?
#5 Re: Programs, Apps » Promoting Jabber / XMPP use » 2016-11-23 16:14:09
Well I've never tried XMPP... should do so I guess.
Let me know if you'd like to chat as a test. I'm not going to publish my ID just yet, though.
So far, it seems like gajim is the easiest desktop client that I've tested but I've not tried its OTR (Off The Record) yet because my OTR contact hasn't been online at the same time and I think I may need to install some optional plugin. It looks like it can do audio/video calling, but I've no-one to test that with yet.
On Android/F-Droid, beem is slick and has OTR (Off The Record), but can't do multi-user chat/conference (MUC) as far as I can tell. Tigase can do MUC, but not OTR that I can see.
#6 Programs, Apps » Promoting Jabber / XMPP use » 2016-11-17 09:56:03
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Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, also known as its earlier name Jabber) is basically a useful multiserver messaging system which can store messages. Think web or internet relay chat (IRC) which stores messages until you connect next time, or a free/libre multi-provider Whatsapp-style messaging service. It can also support phone/video calling, although I think not all clients or providers do.
There's choice of apps and of providers but that's not always a good thing, as it makes it more difficult to recommend things. Proprietary services offer a take-it-or-leave-it no choice approach which people seem to find simpler.
How can we promote this sort of service best and XMPP in particular? What XMPP clients on phones work well? Are there good web clients? What providers are easy to sign up for and not evil? What else am I forgetting?
#7 Re: Forum admin » Restrict posting links for new users » 2016-11-11 10:44:28
I don't feel it's serious discrimination to restrict link posting until at least after they've said hello properly (and not with the Polish dictionary definition of office, which is what I think one says) but it's your call. Deleting the spam manually doesn't seem to be keeping up with the spammers.
Stop Forum Spam looks OK at first glance, although the database doesn't seem to be under any free licence and it'd need a bit o keeping an eye on, lest it goes mad and blocks a large a UK ISP.
I've used blogspam.net in the past, but I don't know how well it applies to forums.
I'm not keen to take on more sysadmin just yet because I'm fairly busy and waiting to see how this forum develops. I'm fine with git if you want to prepare for later help, though. If you're running a debian variant, etckeeper seems a good way to git track configuration changes in /etc
#8 Forum admin » Restrict posting links for new users » 2016-11-10 11:11:24
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Is this site using FluxBB 1.5? If so, restricting new users posting links may cut the spamming down.
http://fluxbb.org/docs/v1.5/antispam#counter-measures but please don't use audio-visual disability discrimination like reCaptcha (which is misnamed because it's not a CAPTCHA).
#9 Re: Information and Guides » How to get a phone running mostly Free Software » 2016-11-07 10:20:39
That's basically what I did. Has anyone tried the other systems like Replicant?
#10 Re: The Social Room » Naming a UK GNU social instance » 2016-11-04 09:09:02
"Jam and Freedom"? "A Free and Pleasant Land"? "What's all the FOSS"? "The Open Isles"?
#11 Re: The Social Room » Naming a UK GNU social instance » 2016-11-02 10:19:05
GnUK Social? I'll see if anything comes to mind in the next day or by asking some punny people.
#12 Re: Web dev » Setting up a blog in the UK » 2016-10-27 08:56:27
Ah, this looks really good. Have you used it yourself?
I'm actually one of the members (hence the question about whether such blatent self-promotion is allowed), so I both help run it and use it for their member-news blog www.news.software.coop
#13 Re: General Discussion » BBC article incorrectly explains Free Software » 2016-10-26 09:32:24
Is there any way less confrontational than http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ ?
#14 Re: Web dev » Setting up a blog in the UK » 2016-10-26 09:30:59
Am I allowed to answer hire the co-op?
#15 General Discussion » Other things? » 2016-10-25 17:45:23
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So, what other socially free softwarey things are you reading regularly?
I also read Planet Debian, LUG.org.uk Planets and Django Community Blogs, as well as a few other developers' blogs. I don't read as many sites as I used to.
#16 Re: The Social Room » Get some newbies on here! » 2016-10-21 21:53:44
I can use feeds, but how many newbies will?
#17 Re: The Social Room » Get some newbies on here! » 2016-10-21 12:41:10
There must be some tool to turn an Atom feed into a registered-users email newsletter.
#18 Re: The Social Room » Get some newbies on here! » 2016-10-19 15:15:04
There's also a "Subscribe" link at the bottom of every topic and a "Subscribe" checkbox on the full "Post reply" form - but not on the Quick reply form. Should it be made more obvious, or mentioned in the site-specific welcome/help?
Actually, where is the site welcome/help? Not the technical http://www.freesoftwareuk.org.uk/help.php, the rest of it?
#19 Re: Web dev » Is my blog's font too big? » 2016-10-19 15:10:49
Not particularly but I'm a developer more than a designer.
What irked me about your blog is the difficulty of finding some space in the list of titles that isn't a link, so I can open the right-click menu that shows the back button!
#20 Re: The Social Room » Get some newbies on here! » 2016-10-19 15:06:14
Tested that subscription checkbox and it seems to work.
I think "make this forum your browser home page" is unrealistic (plus I wouldn't want to look at that flag multiple times a day) and I can't see many people being committed enough to keep clicking "New" on the off chance of new content until the forum gets lively. Before starting a suggestion, I'll wait to see if anyone else thinks some sort of newslettery thing is a good way to keep ordinary people returning to the site
#21 Re: The Social Room » Get some newbies on here! » 2016-10-18 17:05:29
Does the board email me when things happen that I might be interested in?
Can it email me summaries of what’s happened last week/month in case I don’t know what I'm interested in?
Otherwise, I think it's going to be a struggle to make this an active place.
#22 Re: Where? » I'm in Cambridge » 2016-10-17 11:46:06
Greetings from the Norfolk fens!
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