__________________________ /\ \ \_| STATE OF THE TILDEPALS | | DECEMBER 2022 | | _____________________|_ \_/_______________________/ =========================== CURRENT MEMBERS =========================== [REDACTED] =============================== ISSUES ================================ Last month, I mentioned that Framalistes is changing its archival policy to restrict the web archives to the last 12 months only. This policy is not yet active, and probably will be enforced in January. I have a copy of all the archives since 2020 and have now figured out an easy way to keep it updated month by month. Per a discussion on this list, I will for now not put in place any "self-service" system to retrieve the earlier archives. I updated the HELP section below to include instructions to contact me to get all the archives. ============================ MESSAGE STATS ============================ Year, month Messages -------------- -------- 2020 198 - September 5 - October 43 - November 112 - December 38 2021 545 - January 46 - February 61 - March 50 - April 67 - May 39 - June 66 - July 38 - August 47 - September 13 - October 30 - November 51 - December 37 2022 376 - January 20 - February 66 - March 19 - April 1 - May 1 - June 47 - July 37 - August 18 - September 36 - October 25 - November 106 ================================= HELP ================================ ## GENERAL INFO Tildepals is hosted on Framalistes, a Sympa instance hosted by Framasoft, a large French non-profit that encourages contributions to and usage of FOSS. This list is configured to be private. Non-subscribers can only tell that the list exists, that lucidiot is its owner, and that they can subscribe. 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You can request a temporary password, which will be sent to you by email, here: ## WEB ARCHIVES You can browse the list's web archives, including the messages that may have been posted before you subscribed, by visting this page: You will need to login to Sympa; if you do not yet have a password, see the above section. If you want to reply to a message you found in the archives but do not have in your account, you can click the Re-send button on the web UI to have it sent again; this is preferred over just saying "hey I am replying to this thing" in your emails. ## ALL ARCHIVES The Framalistes web archives are restricted to the last 12 months. The list moderators can download the list's archives in bulk, and thus keep an archive of every message sent to the list since its creation, updating it each time a new State of the Tildepals is sent to the list. 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