Peter: Some questions
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:40 pm
Hello Peter,
There are a few aspects of your forum's relationship with Groups.io that are a bit confusing (I've not been a member of a forum before). So a few questions for you to help clear things up?
The groups that are listed on your site all indicate that they are linked to Groups.io, this is in italics. I understand that Groups.io hosts the software for the groups to communicate, but does this mean that they also will have a copy of every message that is posted? What about posts that may include discussion about their prohibited topic -- is Minutus 'safe' from having these posts being monitored by security people at Groups.io?
What is not fully clear (to me) is the relationship between the Rife forum and Groups.io: if at some point, Groups.io mandates that Topics X and Y can not be discussed --and they issue that mandate to you, do you still have the freedom to allow those topics to be discussed at your site? Do you have guaranteed unrestricted rights as the owner of the forum to continue to allow unrestricted discussions? I suspect that there may be other members here who would also appreciate clarification about these issues.
Lastly, just a friendly reminder that things may be more quiet than usual as it is the Christmas and Winter holiday season. Many people are busy with holiday preparations and may not be reading as often as usual. Deb
Hi Deb,
I am working on moving the group to your own forum where you will have full freedom of speech and your existing message archives can be fully restored. This new forum will be open to all topics without censorship, your groups will just have to make the occasional donations to cover the running costs (server and traffic costs for sending out all the emails, etc.), but they are relatively small once it is all setup. We can alternatively consider allowing advertising if that is an issue, otherwise the forum has no advertising.
It will take several days before it is fully setup and tested, particularly as the festive season will be slowing down such work. It should be ready by the new year. Those that donate will be let on early to help check it out..
We also still need to raise the costs of setting up this new system. Some donations have come in, but we are not there, yet. Details and donations can be made here: https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus.php#donate
A screenshot of the new phpBB based forum can also be seen there. It runs on my own webserver that is also used to run the Rife Forum as well.
Until all is setup and working, we can continue our discussions on the current group on groups.io.
Regards
Peter Walker
The Rife Forum
www.rife.de
www.rifewiki.org
www.rifeshop.com
www.rifeforum.com
groups.rifeforum.com
groups.io/g/rifeforum
rifegroup.groups.io/g/Rife
gadgetheaven.net
There are a few aspects of your forum's relationship with Groups.io that are a bit confusing (I've not been a member of a forum before). So a few questions for you to help clear things up?
The groups that are listed on your site all indicate that they are linked to Groups.io, this is in italics. I understand that Groups.io hosts the software for the groups to communicate, but does this mean that they also will have a copy of every message that is posted? What about posts that may include discussion about their prohibited topic -- is Minutus 'safe' from having these posts being monitored by security people at Groups.io?
What is not fully clear (to me) is the relationship between the Rife forum and Groups.io: if at some point, Groups.io mandates that Topics X and Y can not be discussed --and they issue that mandate to you, do you still have the freedom to allow those topics to be discussed at your site? Do you have guaranteed unrestricted rights as the owner of the forum to continue to allow unrestricted discussions? I suspect that there may be other members here who would also appreciate clarification about these issues.
Lastly, just a friendly reminder that things may be more quiet than usual as it is the Christmas and Winter holiday season. Many people are busy with holiday preparations and may not be reading as often as usual. Deb
Hi Deb,
I am working on moving the group to your own forum where you will have full freedom of speech and your existing message archives can be fully restored. This new forum will be open to all topics without censorship, your groups will just have to make the occasional donations to cover the running costs (server and traffic costs for sending out all the emails, etc.), but they are relatively small once it is all setup. We can alternatively consider allowing advertising if that is an issue, otherwise the forum has no advertising.
It will take several days before it is fully setup and tested, particularly as the festive season will be slowing down such work. It should be ready by the new year. Those that donate will be let on early to help check it out..
We also still need to raise the costs of setting up this new system. Some donations have come in, but we are not there, yet. Details and donations can be made here: https://groups.rifeforum.com/minutus.php#donate
A screenshot of the new phpBB based forum can also be seen there. It runs on my own webserver that is also used to run the Rife Forum as well.
Until all is setup and working, we can continue our discussions on the current group on groups.io.
Regards
Peter Walker
The Rife Forum
www.rife.de
www.rifewiki.org
www.rifeshop.com
www.rifeforum.com
groups.rifeforum.com
groups.io/g/rifeforum
rifegroup.groups.io/g/Rife
gadgetheaven.net