SparkleKitten421964
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I try to register to the Mint forum (forums.linuxmint.com).... after diligently doing 4 or 5 captchas, I get a msg saying I have been identified as spam, contact administrator. Yes, it is characteristic of spammers to do multiple successful captchas, isn't it? Okay...
I click on Contact Administrator and get a message that the contact form has been disabled.
It provides a link to email the administrator, so I click it and I get a msg that the website wants to open a program on my computer.
Classy, super classy, Mint guys. Fine, I say open whatever program, let's see what this is.
It opens Thunderbird, which I don't use. And of course, still no contact info. I already have Proton synched with the Proton email program, but I should sign my email into Thunderbird, because the Mint Forum Administrator never, ever wants to talk to a person who wouldn't use Thunderbird.
I search everywhere. There is no contact info anywhere on the internet on how to contact the Mint Forum Admin.
This comes off as extremely hostile. Don't need humans, don't want their input. No humans to talk to. Can't notify the forum there's a problem with joining the forum because I cannot join the forum. I'm at a loss.
Ability to participate in the official forum for a distro is, I think, kind of a pass/fail on whether someone should adopt that distro. I could jump through the additional hoop of signing my email account into Thunderbird, but I'm kind of pissed off that this distro 100% doesn't want to speak to anyone who doesn't do this thing. It comes off as super hostile and arrogant to me. Like the inconvenience of thousands of new adopters, adding up to many hundreds of hours trying to figure out what hoop to jump through - to make them do this pointless task - is nothing to them.
I click on Contact Administrator and get a message that the contact form has been disabled.
It provides a link to email the administrator, so I click it and I get a msg that the website wants to open a program on my computer.
Classy, super classy, Mint guys. Fine, I say open whatever program, let's see what this is.
It opens Thunderbird, which I don't use. And of course, still no contact info. I already have Proton synched with the Proton email program, but I should sign my email into Thunderbird, because the Mint Forum Administrator never, ever wants to talk to a person who wouldn't use Thunderbird.
I search everywhere. There is no contact info anywhere on the internet on how to contact the Mint Forum Admin.
This comes off as extremely hostile. Don't need humans, don't want their input. No humans to talk to. Can't notify the forum there's a problem with joining the forum because I cannot join the forum. I'm at a loss.
Ability to participate in the official forum for a distro is, I think, kind of a pass/fail on whether someone should adopt that distro. I could jump through the additional hoop of signing my email account into Thunderbird, but I'm kind of pissed off that this distro 100% doesn't want to speak to anyone who doesn't do this thing. It comes off as super hostile and arrogant to me. Like the inconvenience of thousands of new adopters, adding up to many hundreds of hours trying to figure out what hoop to jump through - to make them do this pointless task - is nothing to them.
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