Sorry about the "customer" idea. I really have not engaged enough to know better.
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 8:39 PM Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Rick Johnson wrote: > > Okay, as long as you know and it gets logged as an issue. It > > creates customer pain. Some ask for help sooner than others. We > > who are caught in the loop are few, so not much of a problem for > > you, I guess. > > I chafe at the use of the word customer since it is a community > resource. We are all in this together. It isn't a customer > relationship. > > You may be thinking that I am somehow the developer of the web > interface. I am not. I have only poked my nose into it on a few > occasions. I'm primarily working on the mailing lists and the > hosting. The web UI could definitely use some help. Are you > interested in contributing to it? > > > Many are probably okay with using different usernames. > > That's a poor workaround. Anyone who has problems should contact us > for assistance. It isn't difficult to push things along. > > > Maybe Lastpass causes a pattern of use that enables the problem. > > It's possible. Especially since we had a number of complaints from > LastPass users all at once. Seemed more than a normal amount. And > haven't heard any problems from then since. Since the web UI hasn't > changed it was possible that it was the password manager. > > Note that I think random passwords are the best security. I am not a > user of LastPass myself but they seem reasonable. And in general I > encourage the use of password managers. I would definitely like the > web UI to work well with password managers. > > > Just tryin' to help. > > Sure. Patches welcome. There hasn't been too much development done > on the web site UI for some time. > > Bob > -- Rick Johnson 631-921-8450
