Birthday Notification

Facebook wants to replace whole internet (whole life?). We too?

This will be ridiculous to see streams highlighted with fake birthday events…

It is certainly a bad idea to require people to enter a public birthday, but this was not being proposed.

It is certainly a bad idea to require people to enter a public birthday, but this was not being proposed.

What is being proposed is to display notifications for birthday. What is the person has entered a fake birthday (like me) ?

well to make that notification appear you would actually need to enter a fake birthday AND opt-in to show others notifications...

Why would you do that? I would say in that case you are spamming the birthday notification system.
Compare: if one of your contacts posts random text, then you get random text in your stream. This is not an argument against the stream.

My suggestion was intended as an opt-in for the receiver.

well this is supposed to replace facebook

Definitely not. Diaspora is intended to be something new and different, not a replacement for Facebook. When thinking of introducing features, we should be considering 'what is the very best that can be introduced for a social network?', not just slapping things onto the UI because people have been led by Facebook and other privacy-sucking 'services' to expect them.

well to make that notification appear you would actually need to enter a fake birthday AND opt-in to show others notifications…

Would you develop it ?

i'm not a developer sadly

I'm définitvely in the same mind that Augier and Goob....
Shortly => Againt this proposal...without discussion

Longer : d* should be something different that FB or TW or what ever you want. d* should be something that we all together imagine, not a simple copy of something that a big company impose today to us. Why do you think that standard people could come on d* from FB for example, if d* is the same that FB!?!? Could you imagine what could be the requirements for hardware and money to only have 10% of the FB todays user? Considering the difficulty our community have already today to make his own way, thanks to only so few people!?

I personnaly can't code (and I probably never can) but if I could, I really like/appreciate to code my own feature something special or my own software from my own needs or my fun.

Please use your own mind to propose us real new and unattended features to show the world that people are not zombies....

Hope it's quite english (i'm french ;-) )