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unexpected agreement requirement
thorny:
Did anybody else try to refresh a page on this forum today and get confronted with a privacy form requiring agreement in order to access the forum?
The form itself looked pretty much standard boilerplate; but I wasn't expecting it, and wonder what's going on.
dmeck7755:
I got one this am. I thought it may have been related to all of the work restructuring the site.
JoB:
--- Quote from: thorny on March 02, 2022, 10:06:57 AM ---Did anybody else try to refresh a page on this forum today and get confronted with a privacy form requiring agreement in order to access the forum?
--- End quote ---
Well, I tried to log in and ran into it, but yeah.
--- Quote from: thorny on March 02, 2022, 10:06:57 AM ---The form itself looked pretty much standard boilerplate
--- End quote ---
... though the result looked like the boilerplate didn't manage to get it properly cooked IMHO ...
--- Quote from: thorny on March 02, 2022, 10:06:57 AM ---but I wasn't expecting it, and wonder what's going on.
--- End quote ---
Well, the markup did say that the policy was last edited today (02-Mar-2022) and effective as of today, so having it pop up for confirmation now makes sense, as hurried as the thing may look ...
Jitter:
There have been some changes in the forum software, pushed on by the software provider (Simple Machines Forum or something like that) and our administration needs to do some magic to keep the software working and preserve our own tweaks at the same time. The agreement may be related to that.
Sorry about the hazy details, I don’t have anything to do with the software side of things but I am in contact with the admin. So I know something is going on, but don’t know what it is :)
JoB:
(FWIW, to reread the terms after you accepted them, look here; there doesn't seem to be a link / menu item leading to it.)
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