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This is partially a rant.

Ever since the lovely KDE digest news got removed (because the guy who was pushing it had no more time), KDE 4 seems to have lost a lot of vision - in general. But what is even worse, things changed to the worse. The first some releases of KDE 4 werent exactly easy to compile ot use, and during that time when I realized that I cant have fun with plasmoids easily I slowly stopped caring. I mean, KDE 3 was working fine here - it didnt have the fancy looks, but it gave me no real trouble. And isn't the past better than today's problems anyway?

One example what got worse, you can no longer post anonymously on digest news, because these got changed heavily. Blabla new design which sucks blabla...
Now, I tried to register there, and I failed - before you say how stupid I am, I want to say that this is not the point.

Screw Captchas too, their only intent is to annoy human beings and waste their time. You know how virtually painless it is to write this stuff here without having to worry about matching a captcha?

Anyway, my point is:

a) Allow anonymous posts
b) Allow ONE LOGIN NAME FOR ALL those KDE-related stuff.

This forum here is wonderful. Why do I need to create and register for http://www.kdenews.org? I mean, probably nobody cares anyway, but hey - I once liked KDE's vision a lot. Even the KDE 4 outlook.

I want to use exactly one login, for exactly all of the resources that KDE can offer, including forum kdenews wiki and so on. Seriously. Unification for the win.

But ever since that long ride to KDE 4 and having a bigger vision, some things got lost on the road, and this is actually what some people might want ... again, in general. People do complain - it is in their nature.

Easy to use features. Simplicity. I guess nobody wants to listen to rants even if they are correct in essence, so I am probably better off stop using any desktop environment and stick to something that does not get in my way.

But I also thought I might be wrong, thus I wrote this post here:

Allow a unified access to all KDE webpages.

No stupid multiregistration ****.

Might be openID could solve this.

Many logins is a problem, with deep roots. Each *kde.org site has different platform to be run on, so different login schemes, sometimes on different servers etc.

using openID where would be no need for captcha's too, just paste your ID url.

OpenID implementation for the forum is on the TODO, as soon as the phpbb mod is mature enough.

And we seem to be the last ones missing the openid login, kdenews also provide it already.

But some things i'd like to mention:

shevegen wrote:This is partially a rant.

Ever since the lovely KDE digest news got removed (because the guy who was pushing it had no more time), KDE 4 seems to have lost a lot of vision - in general. But what is even worse, things changed to the worse. The first some releases of KDE 4 werent exactly easy to compile ot use, and during that time when I realized that I cant have fun with plasmoids easily I slowly stopped caring. I mean, KDE 3 was working fine here - it didnt have the fancy looks, but it gave me no real trouble. And isn't the past better than today's problems anyway?

This doesn't sound like it is about the KDE website infrastructure. Would probably fit somewhere else, we have enough topics about why to choose KDE3 over KDE4 and vice versa.

One example what got worse, you can no longer post anonymously on digest news, because these got changed heavily. Blabla new design which sucks blabla...
Now, I tried to register there, and I failed - before you say how stupid I am, I want to say that this is not the point.

Anonymous posts tend to become flamy very fast. Hence the reason to have a bit more control over it. Afterall, it is a news site, but quite some people i know didn't want to read it anymore, just because of bad comments from anonymous side.

Screw Captchas too, their only intent is to annoy human beings and waste their time. You know how virtually painless it is to write this stuff here without having to worry about matching a captcha?

Captchas are not there to annoy humans, they are there to protect from spam. Of course, it is another hurdle for users, but it keeps us from getting flooded with messages about nice shoes etc... (well, partly at least, we know spam bots are getting better and better every time)

Anyway, my point is:

a) Allow anonymous posts
b) Allow ONE LOGIN NAME FOR ALL those KDE-related stuff.

This forum here is wonderful. Why do I need to create and register for http://www.kdenews.org? I mean, probably nobody cares anyway, but hey - I once liked KDE's vision a lot. Even the KDE 4 outlook.

I want to use exactly one login, for exactly all of the resources that KDE can offer, including forum kdenews wiki and so on. Seriously. Unification for the win.

see above, it is already discussed and planned.

But ever since that long ride to KDE 4 and having a bigger vision, some things got lost on the road, and this is actually what some people might want ... again, in general. People do complain - it is in their nature.

Easy to use features. Simplicity. I guess nobody wants to listen to rants even if they are correct in essence, so I am probably better off stop using any desktop environment and stick to something that does not get in my way.

But I also thought I might be wrong, thus I wrote this post here:

Allow a unified access to all KDE webpages.

No stupid multiregistration ****.

As I've run many websites which did NOT have a captcha, I can tell you it's abosultly horrible. Bots run the web, but they can also kill sites with spam.

Removing the CAPTCHA and having a one-kde-login (which would mean that if an account is compromised then that account agaisnt all the KDE stuff is also compromised) would mean that this site would go down in about a month.

This forum is too popular to safely remove CAPTCHA's. Sorry.

One logon to rule them all. One logon to find them, and in the Air bind them, in the land of Oxygen where the plasmoids lie