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Hi all!

I tried commenting on https://fedoramagazine.org/4-cool-new-projects-to-try-in-copr-from-october-2020/ , but:

  1. had to give clearance on my https://www.shlomifish.org/ openid (Ok)

  2. Then I had to login to FAS again (which had forgotten my login and so i had to unlock firefox's password manager using the master password).

  3. Then noscript complained about a potential XSS.

  4. after that I was redirected to an obscure wordpress admin page and when I returned to the blog post my reply's text was lost.

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark".

As much as I used to hate wordpress (see https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2icta2/when_wishing_to_comment_on_a_wordpress_blog/ and http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/WordPress/ ), commenting on these posts of other blogs was fairly straightforward: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/08/29/writing-the-perfect-question/ ; https://www.davidrevoy.com/article767/episode-32-the-battlefield#comments .

Can the process on https://fedoramagazine.org/ please be streamlined?

Update: a Fedora admin of its web sites on freenode gave me a workaround of not entering my openid URL, which will make it harder for people to contact me.

He noted that he will look into fixing this issue but will likely fail. Fedora is developed by Red Hat which used to be very profitable before it was sold to IBM for 34 milliard dollars, and Fedora/RHEL are popular and tend to get the final say even over Ubuntu. They can afford to hire top talent, and being an open source project, I presume also have many enthusiastic and talented contributors who volunteer time for free, as is the case for me (although how much competent I am is not something I am qualified to evaluate; I am happy to receive criticism and try to improve though.).

If they cannot fix a WordPress issue, how can we expect a nascent blogger, who just installed WordPress, and doesn't know programming well ( and is certainly underqualified to properly read and write PHP code ) to handle it themselves? If a fire has caught the firs, what will the moss on the wall say?

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