# Meta — Latest **URL:** /c/meta/2 **Topics on this page:** 30 ## [About the Meta category](/t/about-the-meta-category/1) **Author:** @system **Last posted:** 2022-09-29T04:20:02Z Ask a question about, report an issue with, or otherwise discuss the Privacy Guides organization and any of the online services we run (this forum, Searx, Gitea, Matrix, etc.) and how we can improve them! If you are rep… --- ## [How to become member of developers / post in Project Showcase](/t/how-to-become-member-of-developers-post-in-project-showcase/14019) **Author:** @xecrets **Last posted:** 2026-09-10T13:43:57Z Hi! I’ve tried for a long time to become member of the developers group, but received no response at all. Can’t reapply either, because I’ve already applied… Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Svante --- ## [How can I suggest an edit for a community wiki post?](/t/how-can-i-suggest-an-edit-for-a-community-wiki-post/40557) **Author:** @blibly **Last posted:** 2026-09-09T01:04:30Z There’s something on a community wiki post that I feel needs clarifying, but I can’t reply to the post. What can I do? --- ## [Where do I find the new user tutorial?](/t/where-do-i-find-the-new-user-tutorial/40117) **Author:** @blibly **Last posted:** 2026-09-05T18:27:35Z I’ve searched on DuckDuckGo, this forum, the sidebar, and I haven’t found it. It’s mentioned in one of the badges, and it seems like an important thing to do. Where can I find it? --- ## [Is it okay to @ staff if I want their input on something?](/t/is-it-okay-to-staff-if-i-want-their-input-on-something/40216) **Author:** @blibly **Last posted:** 2026-09-03T12:01:52Z A while ago, I asked a question about what protections the security levels in the Tor and Mullvad browsers provide in practice, and I didn’t get a definitive answer. I think this is an important question that should get … --- ## [Missing links in PrivacyTools FAQ.](/t/missing-links-in-privacytools-faq/40347) **Author:** @null **Last posted:** 2026-08-31T18:12:27Z I can’t be bothered to make a github account, there are 2 Missing links in “Further Reading” PrivacyTools FAQ - Privacy Guides “Sept 13, 2021 announcement of the beginning of our transition to Privacy Guides on r/privac… --- ## [Cannot reply to a thread about my project, my reply goes in moderation then dissapears](/t/cannot-reply-to-a-thread-about-my-project-my-reply-goes-in-moderation-then-dissapears/39972) **Author:** @FileSeeder **Last posted:** 2026-08-22T14:50:53Z Hi folks! I tried to give a reply in a discussion thread that was talking about a project I am part of. I connected my email to show I’m part of the team and gave what I thought was a detailed answer with links (not mor… --- ## [Any plans for a Privacy Guides .zim Archive?](/t/any-plans-for-a-privacy-guides-zim-archive/39660) **Author:** @carabinerbeltloop **Last posted:** 2026-08-06T01:49:33Z I recently discovered Kiwix web archives and realized how valuable Privacy Guides has been on my privacy journey. Are there any plans to release periodic (e.g., quarterly or yearly) .zim archives of the site? It’d make p… --- ## [Why does this site sometimes trigger NoScript to either choose to load something anonyomously or normally when I login?](/t/why-does-this-site-sometimes-trigger-noscript-to-either-choose-to-load-something-anonyomously-or-normally-when-i-login/39552) **Author:** @Reincarnation **Last posted:** 2026-08-03T16:43:27Z I use Tor Browser, and sometimes when I login it says that there is a potential identity leak, and I have to choose between loading content anonymously or normally. --- ## [Defaulting new posts to use nested replies?](/t/defaulting-new-posts-to-use-nested-replies/39302) **Author:** @jonah **Last posted:** 2026-08-02T12:50:53Z Should we do this? Threads would look like this. Edit: It’s also possible to default to these for certain categories. I’m thinking at the very least General > News and Off Topic could use these. Perhaps General as wel… --- ## [Should forum emails be opt-in?](/t/should-forum-emails-be-opt-in/39473) **Author:** @Lukas **Last posted:** 2026-08-01T13:21:11Z I don’t check my email frequently, but I did today and it was full of emails from PG forum. I think that something like this should be opt-in. --- ## [Training about privacy - Help to download subtitles from neat.tube](/t/training-about-privacy-help-to-download-subtitles-from-neat-tube/39219) **Author:** @e121 **Last posted:** 2026-07-19T20:04:14Z Hi, I’m putting together a course for a group of activists and I wanted to show them the video “stop-confusing-privacy-anonymity-and-security.” https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/03/14/stop-confusing-privacy-anon… --- ## [PG traffic stats not working](/t/pg-traffic-stats-not-working/39163) **Author:** @user1 **Last posted:** 2026-07-15T17:20:36Z Is it only me or this is broken? --- ## [Jordan's Floating Head](/t/jordans-floating-head/39152) **Author:** @winteranimal **Last posted:** 2026-07-15T10:00:33Z @jordan or anyone who knows, how do you make your floating head? I want one! --- ## [PrivacyGuides donation page uses CloudFlare. Why?](/t/privacyguides-donation-page-uses-cloudflare-why/38615) **Author:** @blibly **Last posted:** 2026-07-06T23:28:28Z When you click on “Become a Member (Cryptocurrency),” there’s a Cloudflare box. I was surprised to see this, since I didn’t think Cloudflare was trusted. Can someone explain why Cloudflare is used instead of something li… --- ## [Not receiving verification emails from Privacy Guides](/t/not-receiving-verification-emails-from-privacy-guides/38630) **Author:** @anon53134653 **Last posted:** 2026-06-20T08:40:34Z Hello! Please excuse me if this is not the right place to ask this question or if I selected the wrong tag! So I’m not receiving emails to verify my email address here on Privacy Guides. I tried for the past 2 days to m… --- ## [Why is the 'hardware' tag not allowed in the news subforum?](/t/why-is-the-hardware-tag-not-allowed-in-the-news-subforum/38577) **Author:** @NotVeryPrivateOnThisAccount **Last posted:** 2026-06-17T07:48:19Z But the ‘software’ tag is. --- ## [Forum issues such as read only mode](/t/forum-issues-such-as-read-only-mode/38519) **Author:** @anonymous909 **Last posted:** 2026-06-13T18:36:33Z What happening with forum? It started to log out me frequently and periodically I see strange things like --- ## [Allow this forum to work without Javascript](/t/allow-this-forum-to-work-without-javascript/27369) **Author:** @Iluvinatum **Last posted:** 2026-06-13T06:01:28Z GrapheneOS Discourse forum works with javascript off. Can you do the same for PrivacyGuides Discourse forum? --- ## [Forum Voting System Improvements](/t/forum-voting-system-improvements/12053) **Author:** @NoOne **Last posted:** 2026-06-11T15:58:20Z Hmm, voting system, may not be a bad idea, but I think that, there should be a note system too, and you can’t down vote, if you won’t explain why, and perhaps provide some additional information, like research papers, et… --- ## [Question Regarding Forum Moderation Transparency and Feedback](/t/question-regarding-forum-moderation-transparency-and-feedback/37282) **Author:** @seize **Last posted:** 2026-06-02T04:00:38Z Roughly five weeks ago the topic titled “Forum Moderation” was closed. With Jonah saying: This is really hindering our ability to take in this feedback and discuss it amongst ourselves … going forward we are going to t… --- ## [Mistake on the website](/t/mistake-on-the-website/38145) **Author:** @ybrbfddvfbf **Last posted:** 2026-05-26T19:34:45Z On the site it says “This Week in Privacy is currently live, join the Q&A in the chat!” but YouTube isn’t live right now. --- ## [Is the password stored after deletion?](/t/is-the-password-stored-after-deletion/37839) **Author:** @Lukas **Last posted:** 2026-05-12T10:23:34Z When one deletes their password, is it actually completely gone or just disabled? --- ## [Why does privacyguides have two domains?](/t/why-does-privacyguides-have-two-domains/37744) **Author:** @TheWonderAlmighty **Last posted:** 2026-05-09T11:09:36Z There’s privacyguides.org and privacyguides.net, I’m wondering why not just have one domain. There was an announcement about it 4 years ago: Upcoming forum domain name change, but @jonah didn’t give a comprehensive answe… --- ## [Why am I notified when a topic I am not involved in is marked as solved?](/t/why-am-i-notified-when-a-topic-i-am-not-involved-in-is-marked-as-solved/37635) **Author:** @seize **Last posted:** 2026-05-05T03:42:38Z On several occasions I have received a notification that a topic has been solved even though it was not my comment which was marked as a solution. I mostly ignored this as I assumed that this was normal given that I was … --- ## [How do I invite people?](/t/how-do-i-invite-people/37615) **Author:** @MrNCatLover **Last posted:** 2026-05-04T20:58:52Z How do I invite people to this site? My friend wants to join and there is a badge for it. --- ## [A correction about OpenSnitch in recent Podcast episode](/t/a-correction-about-opensnitch-in-recent-podcast-episode/37330) **Author:** @flossposse **Last posted:** 2026-04-23T22:11:08Z In the Podcast episode titled “Why does Microsoft Hate Security?, when comparing Little Snitch for Linux to Open Snitch, @jordan stated that Open Snitch ”doesn’t have the same ability to show which process is making conn… --- ## [What happened to the hidden text formatting feature on PG?](/t/what-happened-to-the-hidden-text-formatting-feature-on-pg/37090) **Author:** @PurpleDime **Last posted:** 2026-04-13T11:15:09Z There was a feature in the text formatting options that allowed you to hide text. People typically used to address things that were off-topic. I believe the code looked like this: ▶ OFF TOPIC What happened to it? I d… --- ## [What happened to reactions?](/t/what-happened-to-reactions/36995) **Author:** @mountainofmeat **Last posted:** 2026-04-11T05:03:22Z You can now seemingly only use the “heart” reaction. While that might be fine, I notice that some people are now shown as having liked a post multiple times, an example in this post. I had given it a thumbs down and rece… --- ## [Privacyguides Traffic statistics not working](/t/privacyguides-traffic-statistics-not-working/36973) **Author:** @jerm **Last posted:** 2026-04-08T10:37:03Z @jonah https://stats.triplebit.net/share/S80jBc50hxr5TquS/www.privacyguides.org in Traffic Statistics - Privacy Guides