Are there any 5.5 physical sourcebooks? Were they ever planned at all?
I haven’t been following One D&D news, but I got the impression they were focusing on a subscription-only model, so I’ve been planning to stick with my 5e books or switch to an ORC-licensed system.
I just learned about that as well. I hope Larian dilutes or buys back Tencent’s shares.
This is not about FOSS. (As you could have deduced from my mention of Foundry.)
It’s about services like Discord collecting and owning our words, our voices, our stories, our communities.
It’s also about us retaining access to those things, and having agency over our personal information. Discord has been known to lock people out of their accounts if they don’t hand over their phone numbers or photo IDs, for example.
There are perfectly good tools available that serve their users, rather than exploiting us for the benefit of corporations, and I choose to use them.
(It’s also nice that Mumble has superior voice quality, which I find helpful to role playing, although that’s not its main advantage IMHO.)
My only experience in this area was back when I was using reddit. It seemed that most tables expected everyone to use Discord (or some other closed system), so I stopped looking.
I wonder if fediverse folks would be more likely to use tools like Mumble, Matrix, and Foundry.
Your guess is confirmed here.
There are plans to update the forum, including for better security (the main issue with changing the forum software is concern over reliably migrating all of the existing content). After emailing (admittedly not current best practice), the passwords are hashed and only the hash is stored.
…and later…
The forum has been updated to https, and passwords are no longer being sent by email.
Which raises the question of how old OP’s screen shot is.
Also, no, the password would not necessarily still be stored in plain text on their end. The cleartext password used in that email might be only in memory, and discarded after sending the message. Depends on how the UBB forum software implemented it and how Larian’s mail servers are set up.
EDIT: I just verified that this behavior has resurfaced since it was originally fixed. OP would do well to responsibly report it, rather than stirring up drama over a web forum account.
That leaked email conveniently assumes the owner of Valve would sell it. I can’t think of a reason for Gabe to do that.
Direct link: https://bg3.wiki/
It’s very good already, and as a fan-run site, I’m willing to spend time contributing to it. What a refreshing change it is to get away from Fandom/Wikia and Fextralife. Nice work, Taylan!
Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally,
Open Source means more than that. It is defined here:
If you use the phrase “open source” for things that don’t meet those criteria, then without some clarifying context, you are misleading people.
for free.
Free Software is not the same as “software for free”. It, too, has a specific meaning, defined here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
When the person to whom you replied wrote “free software”, they were not using it in some casual sense to mean free-of-charge.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407
Date Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen wrote:
> From: Maisa Roponen
>
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
>
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen
> ---
> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.
Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.
Thanks,
jon
A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can’t manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.
If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.
If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.
A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won’t get my contributions.