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Jin

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People still have issues with photos not orientating correctly. For me I have to make an edit to my photo (any edit will do) and save it on my phone before it will appear not-sideways. I get PMs about this from time to time.
 

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Only the privacy concerns of reCaptcha, everything else is goodski!
 

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Can you explain this to me? I’m pretty clueless.

When you allow Google code onto your site, you (every user) agrees to be bound by Google's "privacy" policy, which as you know is they steal as much info as they can. Cloudfare dumped them because although they weren't supposed to, Google used reCAPTCHA info to target users for advertising (big surprise from Advertising company right)? My bigger issue is since Google code is proprietary we don't know what they see, we know they lie about what info they take, they lie about deleting data when they say they do, and with a site with the content we have here.... who knows what kind of connections are being made to us on Google's side. This is the place that (without warrants being required) hands over the locations of hundreds of phones that were in a proximity to a crime and gets people investigated by the police. Kinda freaky to say the least.

There are privacy respecting alternatives like hCAPCHA, takes literately minutes to swap out with reCAPCHA and is compatible with browser plugins like privacy pass which would allow trusted people to bypass it all together when the system decided we weren't bots.
 
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When you allow Google code onto your site, you (every user) agrees to be bound by Google's "privacy" policy, which as you know is they steal as much info as they can. Cloudfare dumped them because although they weren't supposed to, Google used reCAPTCHA info to target users for advertising (big surprise from Advertising company right)? My bigger issue is since Google code is proprietary we don't know what they see, we know they lie about what info they take, they lie about deleting data when they say they do, and with a site with the content we have here.... who knows what kind of connections are being made to us on Google's side. This is the place that (without warrants being required) hands over the locations of hundreds of phones that were in a proximity to a crime and gets people investigated by the police. Kinda freaky to say the least.

There are privacy respecting alternatives like hCAPCHA, takes literately minutes to swap out with reCAPCHA and is compatible with browser plugins like privacy pass which would allow trusted people to bypass it all together when the system decided we weren't bots.

Thank you for the explanation!

I wonder if the safeguards that Mugzy has in place would make you less concerned. Again, I don’t know shit about internet security but from what I understand Mugzy has been extremely meticulous in terms of safeguarding our privacy.
 

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Im the raddest!


When I quote a post and preview it it shows up white background / white text. Can't manually change it, not sure if it happens after I post so I'm testing here.

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We used to be able to see the user who gave us rep, good or bad but now it's just blank. Sometimes the messages included with the rep would lead to some nice conversations in PM but without knowing who to address anymore, it's kind of a dead end.

Can the usernames be added back to rep points?
 
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We used to be able to see the user who gave us rep, good or bad but now it's just blank. Sometimes the messages included with the rep would lead to some nice conversations in PM but without knowing who to address anymore, it's kind of a dead end.

Can the usernames be added back to rep points?

I feel the same. This is an admin level decision, however.
 

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So many people use the system to neg rep new members it is an issue...

I have restored the rep tab in the profiles. Please think about the impact it has on others before using the negative rep option.
 

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Everytime i comment on a thread it auto subscribes me to it; How do I disable that?

Kind of annoying getting bombarded with random weekly update emails about em when I check random threads daily
 

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Everytime i comment on a thread it auto subscribes me to it; How do I disable that?

Kind of annoying getting bombarded with random weekly update emails about em when I check random threads daily

1. Top right click "settings"
2. next screen on left click "general settings"
3. Under Default Thread Subscription Mode select "Do not Subscribe" from the drop down.


Its all going to change with the new forum software being implemented in two weeks :)
 

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1. Top right click "settings"
2. next screen on left click "general settings"
3. Under Default Thread Subscription Mode select "Do not Subscribe" from the drop down.


Its all going to change with the new forum software being implemented in two weeks :)

Thank you my good sir 🧐(Englishmen voice)
 

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Is there a way to edit the tag function for chat @mugzy // for instance when I get a notification that I've been tagged in the chat box and click on it that tag link doesn't take me directly to message I've been tagged in. It just opens the chat log and you have to scroll through the pages/log to see what you were directly tagged in.
 

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I'll tag you in a chat message so you see what I'm talking about... // and also you can't edit chat messages either w/this zenforum update
 
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One issue with the reaction emoji's that I realized is that it's common for people to use those to react to things for example, if something is sad they put the sad face. What I don't know is does the sad face give somebody a negative rep? Having reputation points assigned to emojis keeps me from using them a lot of time because I'm afraid I'll accidentally neg rep somebody!
 

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One issue with the reaction emoji's that I realized is that it's common for people to use those to react to things for example, if something is sad they put the sad face. What I don't know is does the sad face give somebody a negative rep? Having reputation points assigned to emojis keeps me from using them a lot of time because I'm afraid I'll accidentally neg rep somebody!
To my knowledge, only the turd and wtf emoji's give out negative points.
 

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One issue with the reaction emoji's that I realized is that it's common for people to use those to react to things for example, if something is sad they put the sad face. What I don't know is does the sad face give somebody a negative rep? Having reputation points assigned to emojis keeps me from using them a lot of time because I'm afraid I'll accidentally neg rep somebody!
The rep points only come from using the like button.
 

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