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Still an annoyance that interferes with responses

Discussion in 'Empty Closets Help and Feedback' started by Quantumreality, Mar 20, 2018.

  1. Quantumreality

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    Why can't EC figure out how to post a person's age without posting a date of birth?

    Many of us are obviously sensitive about posting a date of birth, especially in terms of it potentially identifying us and negating our privacy.

    However, having a simple age reference point can have a huge impact on a person's approach to providing realistic input to a thread creator.

    Why can't EC figure out how to just post an age instead of a birth date, as happened with the old software?
     
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    Love this site. But on some level agree I don't really like such personal info being shared.
     
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    They've discussed this in other threads. I think it's something they are trying to work on.
     
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    The way Xenforo (the forum software) works is that most changes like this require using a plug-in, so if there isn't one for sale they can buy to do this it has to be built from scratch by a developer. That might be why it's taking a while. It seems simple, but it can be surprisingly complicated to change things on a forum sometimes.
     
  5. Chip

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    This is, indeed, on our list. It's complex in terms of privacy, because we don't want to mandate that age be disclosed. We're discussing how to implement this, and then, once that's decided, our software engineer will make the necessary plug-in for it.

    The Xenforo platform we use with EC 2.0 is probably one of the most heavily-customized sites out there. We use something like 30 commercial plug-ins, and a dozen or more custom ones developed by our software engineer.
     
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    Is it not possible to allow for a field for people to simply type in their age in the meantime? (Like we have with pronouns etc)
     
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    As I said above, the issue isn't technical implementation, it is policy relating to privacy issues. Once we decide how to address it, then we'll address it.