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by PRINCE WILLIAM » Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:51 pm
by Jamiet99uk » Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:45 pm
by yavuzovic » Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:00 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:14 am Macca573 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:55 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:57 pm Surely that includes "users" that are not logged in or do not have accounts here? "Guest" is a strange euphemism for "regular member who is hiding their status". Can such people access the forums? Yes.
Macca573 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:55 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:57 pm Surely that includes "users" that are not logged in or do not have accounts here? "Guest" is a strange euphemism for "regular member who is hiding their status". Can such people access the forums?
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:57 pm Surely that includes "users" that are not logged in or do not have accounts here? "Guest" is a strange euphemism for "regular member who is hiding their status".
by Jamiet99uk » Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:14 am
by TheMadMonarch » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:55 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:57 pm yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:06 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am How do you know that? 21 guests online for 4 revealed users at the moment. Surely that includes "users" that are not logged in or do not have accounts here? "Guest" is a strange euphemism for "regular member who is hiding their status".
yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:06 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am How do you know that? 21 guests online for 4 revealed users at the moment.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am How do you know that?
by e.m.c^42 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:54 pm
Nephthys wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:38 am I've always used it a decent amount in mafia to avoid cross posting. Plus kinda fun to see who spends 45 mins editing a 100 word post
by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:57 pm
yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:06 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am A majority of the forum users have it disabled anyway. How do you know that? 21 guests online for 4 revealed users at the moment.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am A majority of the forum users have it disabled anyway. How do you know that?
yavuzovic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am A majority of the forum users have it disabled anyway.
by yavuzovic » Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:06 pm
by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am
by yavuzovic » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:56 am jmo1121109 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:45 am Account->Forum Settings->Board Preferences Tab->Hide my online status->choose yes. This feature is from phpbb3 forums, not something we did. But they provide you a way to hide your presence if you find the feature uncomfortable. You can also disable it, for the whole site, and that's what I'm asking you to consider. The trikolor forum you copied, for example, has this function disabled.
jmo1121109 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:45 am Account->Forum Settings->Board Preferences Tab->Hide my online status->choose yes. This feature is from phpbb3 forums, not something we did. But they provide you a way to hide your presence if you find the feature uncomfortable.
by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:56 am
by Nephthys » Fri Feb 19, 2021 6:38 am
by jmo1121109 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:45 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 3:53 pm I recently discovered, to my surprise, that the WHO IS ONLINE thing in the "STATISTICS" box at the bottom of the forum is actually a *link* which opens up another page. That page displays not only who is online but what they are doing. For every person on the forum when you click it, it tells you which specific sub-forum they're reading or posting in or, more worryingly, if they're using the Private Messages facility, it tells you whether they are reading, composing, or replying to a Private Message at that precise moment in time. I think this is an unjustified breach of users' privacy and should be disabled. I can see no reason why ordinary users need to be able to see this information about each other's activities. I would also, frankly, like to know why webDip decided to include or turn on this stupid feature? Like who thought this was necessary or a good idea? I would hope that disabling this feature would be a straightforward task, since I notice that tricolor.x-tk.ru, the forum that you copied, has this feature disabled. Please can I therefore suggest that this unjustified feature is removed or disabled as soon as possible?
by dargorygel » Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:53 am
Tom Bombadil wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:12 am Can’t you as a user just turn off the option to appear online already?
by Tom Bombadil » Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:12 am
by kgray » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:56 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:30 am kgray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:56 am Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off? I have no idea, sorry. I (kgray personally) am not the right person to ask... I have never looked at the site's code and I have no plans to. Yes but that is why I created this thread. This is the correct area of the forum for this type of thing, yes?
kgray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:56 am Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off? I have no idea, sorry. I (kgray personally) am not the right person to ask... I have never looked at the site's code and I have no plans to.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off?
by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:30 am
kgray wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:56 am Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to. But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off? I have no idea, sorry. I (kgray personally) am not the right person to ask... I have never looked at the site's code and I have no plans to.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to. But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off?
kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to.
by kgray » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:56 am
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:37 pm I don't think it's the same at all. A public forum, where everyone can see what you post, is not the same as a messaging app, where you decide who you're exchanging messages with. Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to. But it is totally unnecessary, and you know I'm not the only one who's expressed concern about it, so can you (and by "you" I mean the webDip authorities, not you kgray personally) turn it off?
kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:37 pm I don't think it's the same at all. A public forum, where everyone can see what you post, is not the same as a messaging app, where you decide who you're exchanging messages with. Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:37 pm I don't think it's the same at all. A public forum, where everyone can see what you post, is not the same as a messaging app, where you decide who you're exchanging messages with.
by Jamiet99uk » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:00 am
kgray wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:37 pm e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:17 pm To be honest, I don't think it's particularly any more of a privacy breach than a "someone is online", "someone is typing", or "seen" notification, which are staples of almost all messaging applications. Private messages are essentially user-specific forum threads, so it's no different from the "viewing/replying in topic". I don't think it's the same at all. A public forum, where everyone can see what you post, is not the same as a messaging app, where you decide who you're exchanging messages with. Right, but it's not like the "who's online" feature tells you who anybody is actually messaging. I agree that it seems unnecessary (and for Mafia games is certainly not ideal) but I don't see how it's a breach of privacy. Especially since you can just hide your online status altogether if you want to.
Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:37 pm e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:17 pm To be honest, I don't think it's particularly any more of a privacy breach than a "someone is online", "someone is typing", or "seen" notification, which are staples of almost all messaging applications. Private messages are essentially user-specific forum threads, so it's no different from the "viewing/replying in topic". I don't think it's the same at all. A public forum, where everyone can see what you post, is not the same as a messaging app, where you decide who you're exchanging messages with.
e.m.c^42 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:17 pm To be honest, I don't think it's particularly any more of a privacy breach than a "someone is online", "someone is typing", or "seen" notification, which are staples of almost all messaging applications. Private messages are essentially user-specific forum threads, so it's no different from the "viewing/replying in topic".
by BunnyGo » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:28 pm
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