Using [email protected] or name*pod.com for Diaspora
I start this discussion becouse i think this must be discussed.
The question is basically use some specific name for diaspora which is it easy identify as diaspora name.
When you see [email protected] any user identify it as email. But is it not easy identify it as diaspora name, you must know the pod name and you must know this is name and not email.
Idea of this is using something as: name*pod.com which any can identify as diaspora name. Noone can say email now.
I know the discussion about sending emails to messages on pod, but this isn't solution of recognition diaspora name.
The new name can be used on business card, on webpages as contact, on billboards, in TV ads and many more.
Do you think this is good idea?
FÁBIÁN Tamás László
Thu 8 Aug 2013 8:51AM
I just think It's unnecessary.
Flaburgan
Thu 8 Aug 2013 9:14AM
There are better ways to make diaspora* unique than breaking standards. Working on this is loosing precious time.
goob
Thu 8 Aug 2013 9:52AM
Nice aesthetic idea in principle, but it's not solving an actual problem and I think it might introduce many problems. It's not worth it.
Shmerl
Thu 8 Aug 2013 3:30PM
No need for inventing a new syntax which only makes it more confusing. user@domain is a standard syntax for many types of Internet identifications.
CodeHero
Thu 8 Aug 2013 11:12PM
I couldn't have the same Email address and Diaspora-id anymore :P
user@domain is used in many cases (email, jabber, ssh, telnet, diaspora, ...) so i think we should keep it.
Florian Staudacher
Sun 11 Aug 2013 1:57PM
just because some people don't know anything with an '@' apart from email, doesn't mean we shouldn't educate them about that fact :P
Tom Scott
Mon 12 Aug 2013 3:42PM
There's no need to change this, we're just creating more problems for absolute zero win.
Nick
Sat 17 Aug 2013 2:06PM
ditto below comments!
Rasmus Fuhse
Wed 21 Aug 2013 7:57PM
I disagree to the proposal, since the @ belongs to a technical internet thingy. But I agree that it should not be so confusing to people not in diaspora. Maybe we need a better usersearch?
nio · Thu 8 Aug 2013 8:09AM