I’ve kind of had Privacy Guides at the back of my mind for a while, but just recently registered and started to read posts, and reading the website.
What a very pleasant surprise this is, there are discussions, disagreements, and people strongly advocate(ing) their point of view, a very good thing.
But the tone is cordial and factual.
And, while I find these new forums very confusing, yeah I miss the good old days with forums like phpBB et al, (started with OS and security back in the early 1990’s). There is a lot to (still) learn here.
I haven’t read every post back to the big bang, but kudos to the people here. First security/privacy forum I’ve read in a long time where posts/discussions does not degrade in to nonsense, ad hominem and hostillity.
Welcome, this is indeed a very pleasant forum to learn and discuss. Many valuable pieces of information are aggregated here throughout various interesting threads.
If you like this forum and want it to stay like this consider becoming a contributing member of this community as well (if you can bear a few minutes a day/week for scrolling through discussions and answering/liking posts of course). This forum is just as great as each member of the community (and the mods) make it, so don’t be ashamed to share your knowledge (even something you consider basic knowledge can help others) or flag a post if you think it violates the code of conduct.
Yeah, after all these years, and now a days focusing on cloud services (the hypervendors, Azure, AWS and GCP) I have some very strong opinions, and possibly some input/advise/opinions, maybe.
But, forums and written text is a tricky thing (no facial espressions or body language) , and since english is not my “mother tongue” I always have to triple-check before I post even though english has been my work-language for the last 20 years.
In a forum like this I don’t want to come across as an a*hole/knowitall.
Hah, I also miss the simple PHP forums. I still miss the simplicity of those designs. Surprisingly, some Discourse forums have a more traditional layout like that, just PG doesn’t do it like that by default.
It drives me nuts, answers “inline”, and then the same post further down.
Now it is flashy effects in the browser, notifications to tell you that got a “badge” for doing “first like”, “first emoji”…and previous I “earned” a Welcome, drive me nuts!
Back in the day, log in, you get each thread marked as (un)read, easy.
Or, I’m maybe just to stubborn and old to change!
English is also not my first language, but I always try to explain my point as good as I can and until now there was not much miscommunication. Just add a short note at the end of your comment that its content is translated and might not actually express what youre trying to express, if you want to make sure that useless discussions about things nobody intended to say are avoided. Also for things like sarcasm there are tone indicators which I see more and more used on text based online platforms.
You could enable mailing list mode in your profile settings and interact entirely within your email client if you really wanted, doesn’t get much simpler than that lol
(although I guess you wouldn’t be able to start new topics that way with our current config)
Slightly out in a tangent, but being active in forums like these where English is the primary language, is one of the best ways to learn, practice and tidy up your English by orders of magnitude, especially when they are technical, but also when they just fall under your passions brain folder. You engage in it, enjoy it and it is common theme that a good chunk of people you interact with, happen to be native speakers. Double-win in the knowledge acquisition department: practice, improve your English and be technical, customize and gather plenty of resources, how-tos.
You seem to be looking at the memories with rose colored glasses. I think stuff was terrible and slow back then, we just didnt notice because a lot of people were on dial up and things took forever to load by default.
I don’t want to be a moderator back then. I started to appreciate level headed mods more several years ago.
But yeah it was a wild west of forums back then. I seem to recall my childishness and jankness in an old gaming forum and I’m glad they’ve shutdown and not scrapable by big tech back then, lest I’d get a more permanent record.
I wasnt very mature back then. Thank god internet cafes were absurdly expensive back then, else I would be banned all over the place especially here.
by big tech back then, lest I’d get a more permanent record.