Howdy, A while back, after the announcement that Google Plus was closing, I created an account over on the MeWe.com website following a number of folks from the G+ site.
The service is still on the small side with, from their last report, around 5 million registered users world wide, but growing. As a site it is similar to Google Plus (which is similar to Facebook, etc). It is currently walled, in that only registered members can interact with content, but this is planned to change in the future and the sites content being searchable and readable without a registration but no hard date on when that might happen. The service offers 'groups' which are analogous to 'community' pages under Google Plus with two major differences: 1st there are no sub-categories and 2nd there is an optional chat feature available. Any member of the group can post to the group page and if chat is enabled use the chat window. Groups may be designated as private, which means the content is not visible to outside members and not returned in site wide searches, or public, which makes the content visible inside MeWe search results. Groups have enough optional settings that they can be made to act like pages (explained in next paragraph). The service also offers 'pages' which differs from groups in the following ways: Pages are always public and may not be made private. Only administrators and moderators of the page may post to the page and there can be multiple admins and mods. MeWe users can follow a page and followers can enter comments on posts there but may not make top level posts. Pages include storage space for documents/images/videos (I believe that is currently 8gig but I need to clarify that). Pages are currently in 'Beta' and free but when they leave Beta there will be a monthly fee of 2.99 USD per month. Pages may be 'unofficial' or 'official' branding pages for legal entities - by default pages will UNOFFICIAL and there will be visible mark on Page Info pages added by the MeWe service unless the administrators fulfill MeWe requirements for an official status. (final details on what those will be are TTBOMK still being worked out) This is getting rather long..so. The site uses custom URLS on a first come first sever basis and I took the liberty of reserving two by creating two pages: (don't click on them) Category: Software Website: libreoffice.org *Page: https://mewe.com/p/libreoffice <https://mewe.com/p/libreoffice>* Category: Science, Technology & Engineering Website: documentfoundaiton.org *Page: https://mewe.com/p/documentfoundation <https://mewe.com/p/documentfoundation>* Presently the pages are NOT PUBLISHED and only visible to two MeWe accounts, mine and Sophie G (though she may not know that, but when she connected with my account there I just added in as admin to both). Group wise, there someone has already reserved a group under the name LibreOfficeFR and there is a generic Open Source Office Suite group where posts regarding LibreOffice have been going. That last group has not really taken off user wise with only 159 members. Other groups however are picking up users faster, for example a generic 'Open Source' group is pushing towards 2,000 members and the arts based groups I tend to frequent are building much faster. At this point I would be interested to either open a LibreOffice Group or Page and am interested in hearing peoples thoughts pro or con. Best wishes, Drew ps if anyone wants to see those pages I can toggle them to published (and back to unpublished later) but you would still need a MeWe account to see them. Best wishes, -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
