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On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 2:56 PM Adrian Fretwell <adrian@a2es.co.uk (adrian@a2es.co.uk)> wrote:

[freeswitch-users at li...]

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Good callout, we're actually working on a community page on the site
rounding up all the spaces (forum, Slack, subreddit, events, etc) in one
place so everyone has a quick ref for where and how to get help.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:21 PM TTT <lists@telium.io> wrote:

[freeswitch-users at li...]

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John, sounds like you're running into a couple of issues with signup - will
you send me an email separately? I'm an admin and will do my best to get
your account set up.

Clive, please let us know if you do run into any issues with the forum and
your screen reader! If you like, you can also set up your account so you
get an hourly, daily, or weekly digest email with new forum topics so you
don't have to remember to check in. It's under Preferences, then Emails.
You'll have to log in once every 180 days to refresh the 'are you still
listening?' timer and keep the emails coming, just FYI.

Gregor, yes! Definitely more searchable, both from Google and the forum
itself.

If anyone else is running into issues or wants to talk about the decision
to move to a forum versus the mailing list, feel free to respond here or
shoot me an email.

*Alexandra Rowell | Community Manager*

Email: alexandra.rowell@signalwire.com


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 2:30 AM Gregor Nanger <gregor@infomedia.si> wrote:

[clive at lansink.co.nz]

Interesting.

I don't recall a CAPTCHA when I set up my Signalwire account, but that could have changed since then. I recently joined the forum after I logged in to Signalwire, and it didn't require a CAPTCHA. So maybe start by setting up a Signalwire account first, or finding your old account and logging in.

But wherever a CAPTCHA is required, people should take care to use one that is as non-discriminatory as possible. I quite like Google's reCAPTCHA. I have implemented this myself on a couple of websites so I can say it is quite easy to do. Older implementations require the user to check a box to say they are not a robot, and this triggers something at the back end to verify whether this is true. But newer implementations now make this assessment completely in the background so the user doesn't have to do anything.

Cheers.


Clive Lansink
Email: Clive@Lansink.Co.NZ
Phone: +64 9 520-4242
Mobile: +64 21 663-999

-----Original message-----
From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: "'FreeSWITCH Users Help'" <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list
Reply-to: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 00:11:25 -0500

I tried to join the forum, but it requires a captcha and I could not figure out the challenge. One of the reasons I hate forums. Can you bypass this for me?


From: FreeSWITCH-users <freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org> On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 4:26 PM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org>
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list

FreeSWITCHers,

Most of you already know me, but for anyone that doesn’t - I’m one of the founders of FreeSWITCH, and I’m the primary administrator for the mailing list.

This mailing list has served the community well for almost 15 years now. As the mailing list has grown continuously larger and been stretched to the limits of its capabilities, it has been running into bigger issues. Especially in the last year, we’ve seen numerous issues that prevent people from joining and participating – bounces, unintended unsubscribes, spam filtering, and more.

We didn’t want to shut down the mailing list without having a replacement set up, and a forum was the obvious choice – the community has been requesting a proper forum for years now. In addition to being more easily accessible and searchable, we hope the forum will simply be a better experience for everyone using it compared to the mailing list.

To join the new forum, visit <https://forum.signalwire.community/> forum.signalwire.community - it uses SSO from your free SignalWire account, which allows us to be more lenient with moderation because we've got an assumed level of trust, and also reduces the overall level of spam in the forums. We've got the forum set so you can view without an account, so check it out with no obligation.

If you’d like to receive updates via email, you can set that up in your user preferences on the forum. You can even reply to forum topics via email, though you’ll need to visit the forum to start a new topic (top level post). Also note the digest/summary emails will stop sending if you don’t log into the site periodically: currently you need to log in every 180 days.

Not interested in the forum, but still looking for community spaces? You’re welcome to join our <https://slack.signalwire.community/> Community Slack, join the <https://www.reddit.com/r/freeswitch/> subreddit, or attend our <https://mailchi.mp/freeswitch.org/office-hours> Office Hours.

If you want to continue using the mailing list until we sunset it, you’re welcome to do so. We’ve disabled new sign ups as of today, and we’ll formally stop supporting it as of March 15, 2023. This should give everyone plenty of time to set up in our other community spaces.

Thanks,

/b



--

Brian West | Co-founder and Developer
Email: brian@freeswitch.com <mailto:brian@freeswitch.com>


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_________________________________________________________________________

The FreeSWITCH project is sponsored by SignalWire https://signalwire.com
Enhance your FreeSWITCH install with disruptive priced SMS and PSTN services.
Build your next product on our scalable cloud platform.

Join our online community to chat in real time https://signalwire.community

Professional FreeSWITCH Services
sales@freeswitch.com
https://freeswitch.com

Official FreeSWITCH Sites
https://freeswitch.com/oss
https://freeswitch.org/confluence
https://cluecon.com

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