[lxc-users] discuss.linuxcontainers.org experiment

[Stéphane Graber]

Hi,

The Github login page here shows up as a pop-up window.
Did your browser maybe prevent it from opening? (Chrome seems fine here)

Stéphane

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:57:21PM -0400, Sean McNamara wrote:
> Having trouble registering a new account based on Github auth. I
> confirmed I'm logged into Github in another tab. Chrome latest stable
> on MacOS Sierra.
> 
> Specific error (in a red box in a pop-up window) says: "Sorry, there
> was an error authorizing your account. Perhaps you did not approve
> authorization?"
> 
> I never even get a prompt *to* approve authorization.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > We know that not everyone enjoys mailing-lists and searching through
> > mailing-list archives and would rather use a platform that's dedicated
> > to discussion and support.
> >
> > We don't know exactly how many of you would prefer using something like
> > that instead of the mailing-list or how many more people are out there
> > who would benefit from such a platform.
> >
> > But we're giving it a shot and will see how things work out over the
> > next couple of months. If we see little interest, we'll just kill it off
> > and revert to using just the lxc-users list. If we see it take off, we
> > may start recommending it as the preferred place to get support and
> > discuss LXC/LXD/LXCFS.
> >
> >
> > The new site is at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
> >
> >
> > We support both Github login as well as standalone registration, so that
> > should make it easy for anyone interested to be able to post questions
> > and content.
> >
> > The site is configured to self-moderate, so active users who post good
> > content and help others will automatically get more privileges. That
> > should let the community shape how this space works rather than have me
> > and the core team babysit it :)
> >
> >
> > Discourse (the engine we use for this) supports notifications by e-mail
> > as well as responses and topic creation by e-mail. So for those of you
> > who don't like dealing with web stuff, you can tweak the e-mail settings
> > in your account and then interact with it almost entirely through
> > e-mails.
> >
> > Just a note on that bit, the plaintext version of those e-mails isn't so
> > great right now, it's not properly wrapped, contains random spacing and
> > the occasional html. I subscribed myself to receive all notifications
> > and will try to tweak the discourse e-mail code for those of us who use
> > mutt or other text-based clients.
> >
> >
> > Anyway, please feel free to post your questions over there, share
> > stories on what you're doing with LXC/LXD/LXCFS, ...
> >
> > We just ask that bug reports remain on Github. If a support question
> > turns out to be a bug, we'll file one for you on Github or ask for you
> > to go file one there (similar to what we've been doing on this list).
> >
> >
> > Hope this is a useful addition to our community!
> >
> > Stéphane
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