That sounds like an excruciating punishment for the admins.
(If Mommy and Daddy get to see my "private" communications, they might as well be posted for all to see.)
That sounds like an excruciating punishment for the admins.
Well, the truth is that I ran a Discourse forum for a company. So one day I went to check the dashboard as usual. The dashboard displays a status overview of the forum. One item is a list of 10 most active threads or similar. One thread title did not look familiar, so I clicked on it. Turned out it was a private discussion of two forum members! So public threads were mixed with private threads and there was no sign about which one is public and which one is private!
Was it coded so that you as admin could accidentally join a private discussion with your own posts? Or would it be clear at the point of posting that you were butting in? (Only to stop illegal activity, of course.)
The avatar thing is just..annoying..you basically have to resize your image yourself instead of just picking an image that gets resized automatically. Again, I personally can live with these things but for the „normal“ users..that’s not modern (e.g. using mobile phones). Of course there are enough sites that offer image resizing if you can’t do it on your mobile device.
I confess I had not even thought about this. "Paint" is so easy and normal to use on a Windows computer, but I don't know if that is an option on mobile. I suppose automatic resizing might reasonably be possible.
I still can not understand how typing forum posts with one or two fingers in a tiny space is normal, desirable, or even possible! I need the full keyboard and the use of all my fingers. I can't imagine setting up eMule or even copy-pasting ed2k links on a mobile. And then once a file is downloaded, watching it on that tiny screen? I would at least want it on a "real" computer, or an external drive. Do mobile phones have USB jacks?for the „normal“ users..that’s not modern (e.g. using mobile phones).
This is what I do: make sure to not reveal personally identifiable information online on any site. Some people here do not even want to reveal what country they are in. Use a VPN to help obscure your location. Use fake emails to sign up for any site that does not require financial information. (Amazon kind of needs to know the real person, unless you go to the trouble of setting up a fake name with fake address and a credit card paid for in Bitcoin.) Of course law enforcement can and will ferret out important targets when they need to, but it is unlikely that anyone else could or would connect the "real me" to the "online me". I can't understand the stupid criminals who never even clear their browser history.I appreciate forum openness but at the same time it always also makes me self-conscious about everything that I write or post being saved for „eternity“ by GoogleSearch, WayBackMachine and others.
IIRC it wasn't fully clear and admin could in principle join private threads. In Discourse, there is no fundamental difference between public and private threads. Public threads can be changed to private and vice versa. Another feature by design is that admin can disguise himself as any normal user (to test out permissions, etc.)...
That is an abomination.
Well, I have to assume that on most sites that admins TECHNICALLY have total control over a board. I don't have the tech knowledge, but I am unclear how someone with "complete control" would be UNABLE to read so-called Private messages. If they can reset a password, then why wouldn't they be able to access all parts of a person's account, if they really wanted to? The question is if their official policies are that Private messages are meant to stay Private. How many sites provide FULL end-to-end encryption, where even the provider can not read the messages?It would be fair if there was a warning "Careful: admin can read your private messages", but there is nothing like that, so most users are not aware of it.