O que vem a seguir para o Discourse: AMA ao vivo com Sam e Hawk

[AstonJ]

Firstly it’s great to see Discourse going from strength to strength - congrats to all of the team

@tobiaseigen

We’ll Be Answering Questions About…

Discourse ID - We’re excited to be announcing our new unified identity system that lets you use one login across any participating Discourse server. We’ll answer questions around functionality and what it means for your community and your users.

I do have some concerns about Discourse ID which I have have aired previously, so my question is how will you protect the memberbase of forum admins you obtain via Discourse ID?

Here’s what I said in one of my previous posts:

@AstonJ

Personally I think you should just ditch the idea altogether.

Whether it is your intention or not, through this, you obtain email addresses of every member on every discourse forum out there (unless the admin opts out). Although we have no reason to distrust you, should Discourse change hands in future the new owners could use the info to start competing sites.

Opting out doesn’t fully protect those installs either - it poses a threat to all forums in all niches; even if you have the largest forum in your niche, users of a few hundred other forums in your niche joined together could well prove difficult to compete against.

Sorry to be so negative about this issue - but it is the only thing I have actually disliked about Discourse.

If you’ll be obtaining:

• Email addresses of users
• Forums they have connected their IDs to

Then this data will be incredibly valuable to anyone who wants to compete with forums that Discourse admins run today - even if that is not your intention it could well be of whoever ends up with Discourse.

If you do decide to go ahead with Discourse ID can you offer any guarantees that Discourse, or this data, will never be sold?

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If you have time for any other questions:

• What have your most memorable Discourse moments been?

• Where is Jeff? Haven’t seen him around here for ages!