On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 1:31 PM Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> Emmanuele is looking into it, thanks for all your efforts here! With any
> change it comes some pain, when we initially moved from cgit to GitLab a
> lot of people complained on with more features comes additional complexity,
> when we introduced Matrix to IRC many complained we were slowly going away
> from a protocol that has been around in the community for ages.
>
> There will always be someone complaining but it's fundamental to give
> things a try and helping out others to succeed as well making sure their
> workflow is replicated to the new tool/platform/protocol.
>
> Thanks again for your efforts here! Really appreciate it!
>

Andrea,

I really appreciate the efforts, but you also have to understand you are
replacing something very simple with something more complex..  Anyhow -
this is my last post on the subject, and while Pete is willing to at least
try, I am  not.  Good luck keeping those of us who are absolutely unwilling
to join a forum..

-Greg



> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 19:24 Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 15:03 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
>> > What new fresh hell is this:
>> >
>> >    We appreciate your enthusiasm, keep it up! That said, for the safety
>> >    of our community, you’ve reached the maximum number of replies a new
>> >    user can create on their first day. Please wait 21 hours and you’ll
>> >    be able to create more replies.
>> >
>> > I can't even reply to my own Topic in "Site Feedback".
>> >
>> > I wondered why my email reply to a user I WAS TRYING TO HELP hadn't
>> > appeared. It looks like it was just silently dropped.
>>
>> The frustration is that I can see posts that I could comment on and
>> help people with following what I've found today, but I can't because
>> I've been banned for 21 hours - for what? Being too enthusiastic and
>> trying to get to grips with the system in the disgustingly short
>> timescale we've been given; trying to sort out the issues even though
>> we were told it just works and that it's an oven-ready, pain-free
>> solution.
>>
>> 20 years of helping people with Evolution and I've been told to sit
>> down at the back of the class because I'm making too much noise.
>>
>> The first day of using this thing does not appear to have been an
>> overwhelming success. For anyone.
>>
>> I may, or may not, return after being released from the sin-bin.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
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