I tried cryptpad and it was good, with the main issue being inviting new users is really complicated. Users needed to register and then send their own "invite me" link, because the system encrypted their email address, so you can only use the link to invite them.
This turned out too complicated for normal people (ok for computer users)
The normal way to invite people to a CryptPad document is to give them the shared link. No need to register or involve emails. Then, they just need to follow the link and it should just work. CryptPad is specifically designed with nontechnical users in mind, because if you want something to be secure, it needs to be simple, and it is not desirable for privacy to be limited to technical users only.
Sorry I should have been more specific, I was trying to invite a user to a team (can't remember the right terminology) so that they could read and write into a directory, creating as many document as they wanted.
We are a small team of 5, but I'm the only tech-able person, other older users felt extremely disoriented.
Which is frustrating, because to me Cryptpad did everything we needed in a very, very secure way (all encrypted)
Note that you can also invite people by sending them a link to a document and then connect to them from the user sidebar. They don't really need an account to access documents.
The main reason for the lack of simpler invitation using email is that we don't really want users to give us the mail of other users to invite. This goes against the "privacy" we are promising users.
We are essentially a group of people (home-owner association but for condos, in Canada). None of these are tech people, they also might not own a computer, but just a tablet and a phone.
The main issue was trying to invite them to a team. I had all their email addresses already, because our main form of communication is email, but I had to go to them one by one and ask them for a link (ID? I can't remember) to give to me so that I could invite them.
Essentially, I get the privacy concern, but I already had all their email addresses, so it was protecting data and making a workflow more complicated, for a use-case we didn't have.
We even implemented links that can be used multiple times before an expiration date.
Concerning the privacy of emails, YOU had the emails, but the SERVER ADMIN does not.. To send an email from the server, the server would need to receive the emails in clear.
As a side note, when you invite somebody to a service by letting the service send the email, you are leaking their email to that service, so to be respectful of people's privacy, we should not send the invite without their consent receive first. I get that nobody does that and there is a sort of implicit consent and that the risks of misuse of the email ate low.. If we ever implement that feature we would have to show a warning.
I understand that, but in this case the server admin and myself were the same people, on my home server, so there wasn't anything leaking anywhere really.
That being said, this was about a year ago. Invite links that you can send manually by email and people can join the team would be more than sufficient, I don't need the system to send the email for me, I just need an invite link.
The problem was the reverse, I needed each user to send me an ID (I think it was an Id) so that they could be invited.
Yeah sorry, there is no other window.
I'm a nightowl too, so the early morning is not an option.
My sleep is definitely disrupted if I do it 2 hours before bed, but I haven't noticed issues with 4.
My fox said I had to get in better shape or I might get hurt. Started going to Crunch and doing some functional training and heavy lifting but Crunch is about as bad as the gym at my Uni when it comes to college students inhabiting the weight machines for too long. Fox said I didn't need more muscle mass but had to improve functional flexibility and get BMI down (ever see a fat fox?)
So I got a 35 lb kettlebell and a TRX system and do those things as well as VR workouts (some Beat Saber, might get back into Supernatural when I've exhausted the free trials of everyone else) around 8-9pm many nights, I usually got to bed around 10-11pm and sleep well. I think going for a hike is fine even as late as 9pm but I wouldn't want to be doing cardio or HIIT that late. Now that I think about it I oughta add some active isolated stretching with the bands.
So far as my fox is concerned [1] I know it puts a lot of stress on my hindquarters (wants to be pronograde?) and to express itself wants to use a range of postures and motion wider than I find comfortable. If I have to explain it to people who might be skeptical I just lie and say I am preparing for character acting in community theater.
Unfortunately I have kids school age, so I'm forced to go to bed by 11pm. During spring break it was pretty evident though, if I go to bed at 1 or 2 am and wake up at 11 am, I feel way more rested than if I go to bed at 10:45pm and wake up at 7:45am. Society really doesn't accommodate that
I can eat unlimited eggs and never feel full (hyperbole, but getting my point). 150g of fat plus a salad with lettuce, tomato and cottage cheese makes me full, which is something hard to achieve for me
I noticed I need high reflexes games to make my brain rest after work, so I don't agree.
It's really hard to shutdown after a day that required a lot of brain power, but high reflexes games do the trick (nine sols, hollow knight come to mind)
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