Site funding and security?

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Hi :slight_smile:

Nice to have another alternative to the tired Yahoo Groups.

A few questions before I dive on in though…

  • Can I ask how the site is funded ? (there will be associated costs and someone has to pay for them).

  • Our login credentials, the password in particular, how is this stored and is it encrypted ?

… thanks.

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The site is funded amongst the founders. Email sending is costing us quite a bit so we’re still looking for a good solution for SMTP, but otherwise the hosting is minimal. At some point we may throw up a donation button for now we’re flipping the bill for it.

Find below the information regarding the platforms security

Joshua Giese
Technology Solutions : CTO
Direct Phone: 920.593.8299
Office Phone: 920.437.6400 x342
[http://wcibags.com/email/emailFooter4.jpg]http://www.wcibags.com/

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Can ‘mailing list mode’ be disabled by default to save you some cash ?

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We could but we felt that since mailing lists are what everyone was used to we should try and keep the functionality of the new group as close as possible to the old one to make it as painless as possible. A “Who moved my cheese” sort of thing. People are certainly more than welcome to disable it, however then it becomes more about “I come to the group when I need help and don’t see other people’s posts”. It drastically reduces the participation with it disabled, which doesn’t help anybody. If I see a topic I have expertise roll by my email I then have the option of answering, otherwise I likely would never see it.

If you’re concerned about the costs buy us some drinks at Insights that will make it all worth it :smiling_face:

Joshua Giese
Technology Solutions : CTO
Direct Phone: 920.593.8299
Office Phone: 920.437.6400 x342
[http://wcibags.com/email/emailFooter4.jpg]http://www.wcibags.com/

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I second the drink buying motion!

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If you buy the tickets from the UK to Vegas :wink:

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I third that! :smiling_face:

M. Manasa Reddy
P: 703.471.7145 x454
manasa@euclidsys.commailto:manasa@euclidsys.com

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I have a couple of questions / suggestions that seem semi-related to this.

First: maybe discourse has an option to send daily/weekly digest emails, rather than functioning like an old school email list? That might cut down on the email costs.

Also, does discourse have some way to “follow” certain users, like with an activity feed or email alerts on posts by those users? Might be another option for those of us who don’t want all of this flooding our inboxes.

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You can turn on / off emails or how emails works directly in your account settings. There are a lot of options. Daily digests, summaries, activity based etc.

Also in your settings you can set specific tags, categories and posts to watch

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Hope this helps

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I guess my point for the first was that maybe admins could save some money on emails by defaulting or only allowing daily or weekly digest emails.

And I found the stuff for following just about everything else, just won’t let you follow a user it seems. To bad.