Hey all, MapRoulette has made a choice to try to collect as little data from our users as possible. We don't require a separate login other than from osm.org, we don't collect email addresses or anything else.
This is good for MapRoulette users, and I think good for OSM in general that we don't have lots of separate systems. The problem is that we are needing to send messages to users. Ideally, those messages would go through osm.org. Otherwise, we have to build our own messaging system, or start collecting user information (email address, etc.). The reason I've been told that we don't allow for an API to messaging is that we don't want spam, but: 1. This is a legitimate issue, of needing to message users, both in this context and in other contexts (DWG comes to mind of a place where we would benefit from this). 2. We already have spam issues on osm.org. I clean up spam not infrequently in the form of notes, which can be anonymous, but we also get spam from signed in users, as well as profiles, etc. 3. I'm not arguing that we need to make this feature available to every single user, but it might be a nice thing to allow for some use cases as above. What do others think? - Serge _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
