Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Basic information/User subscription and permissions/reply (5)

Jorm, I get the impression here that you're writing software based on some horror stories you've heard from English Wikipedians, with perhaps a soupcon of European "privacy" paranoia. You should know better. Subscription approval by itself might be enough to kill acceptance of this tool on English Wikipedia, where we still take openness seriously - I like the general idea of this software but even I would oppose its imposition with subscription approval. It's a bad idea on English Wikipedia, and a ten-times-worse idea on smaller projects with a smaller number of users who really do need to know what each other is doing. Please rethink. Risker (talk) 15:42, 29 June 2013 (UTC)