Make podmin e-mail public
I was working on personalizing my pod today, and I wanted to put the e-mail used to signal a problem on the home page. It was at the bottom of the page and I thought I should put it in the footer. I created a PR doing that, but Jonne pointed that it can be possible that podmins don't want their email public.
What do you think? Is that a problem? This address is used to point problems to podmins. Some problems need to be reported without having to log in. Do you agree to see your podmin email public ?
fabianrbz
Tue 3 Sep 2013 3:48PM
maybe we can add a "feedback" or "contact the pod admin" form, instead of showing the email address
Erwan Guyader
Tue 3 Sep 2013 4:44PM
This is probably a good idea for public pods but I don't see any reason to force it on people hosting private pods.
movilla
Tue 3 Sep 2013 5:51PM
We introduced a configuration option for that. Like this https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/4483#issuecomment-23713811 (Ruxton) or two opt-in settings for this "userspod_podmin_emal" and "public_podmin_email (could be the same email).
StarBlessed
Tue 3 Sep 2013 8:52PM
See my post below.
StarBlessed
Tue 3 Sep 2013 8:54PM
See my post above
goob
Thu 5 Sep 2013 11:34AM
I agree that it would be good to have a means for people to contact the podmin when not logged in, but I don't think making an email address public is the way to do this - not without the podmin making a free choice to do this, at any rate.
David Morley
Thu 5 Sep 2013 4:30PM
I think this just adds spam, I also think the link to contact podmin should just send them a message not email. I think if unauthed contact is desired it should use the existing messaging system but modify it to allow unauthed contact to the podmin.
OpenLifeChallenge
Sat 7 Sep 2013 4:05PM
I believe it should be available to contact podmins without being logged however I think it can be very spam-vulnerable if the e-mail is publicly viewable. Should definitely be some way of non-logged contact but a public e-mail is not safe.
movilla
Sat 7 Sep 2013 8:34PM
We introduced a configuration option for that. Like this https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/pull/4483#issuecomment-23713811 (Ruxton) or two opt-in settings for this "userspod_podmin_emal" and "public_podmin_email (could be the same email).
Emmanouel Kapernaros
Mon 9 Sep 2013 1:46PM
as long as we think very well anti-spamming methods.