[Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
>> To: "Marc Carlson" <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:33:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Please help us try out our new support site!
>>
>> Interesting move.
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>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > This is a message to announce the beta test for our new support
>> > site.
>> > We hope to replace the regular Bioconductor mailing list with this
>> > site soon and we have imported the past 11+ years of mailing list
>> > discussion into this new site.  If you would like to help us test
>> > it
>> > out you can do that by logging in here:
>> >
>> > https://support.bioconductor.org
>> >
>> > For those of you who have posted to the bioconductor mailing list
>> > before, you will probably want to recover your well earned
>> > reputation
>> > from previous posts and answers.  To do that you will need to
>> > scroll
>> > to the bottom of the log in page and click the link that says
>> > 'Forgot
>> > Password?'.  This should get you started with your mailing list
>> > email
>> > address which will already be linked to your previous posts.
>>
>> Since someone else is going to ask the same: What if you've used
>> multiple addresses in the past, e.g. I seem to have 3+ user accounts
>> in my name. Can they be merged?
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> If some of the accounts are with providers listed at https://support.bioconductor.org/accounts/social/connections/ you can "connect" them on that page.

Update: Unfortunately neither of the social providers (Persona,
Twitter, GitHub, Google, Facebook, Stack Exchange) solved my problem,
but that could be because my older addresses are not associated with
any of those services.

By your most recent message, I'll instead send an offline email with
list accounts to merge.

/Henrik

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> If not, I don't know off the top of my head. I'll research it and get back to you.
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>> /Henrik
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>> >
>> > And if you have never posted, then you can start a new account from
>> > that same page.
>> >
>> > As you explore the beta, you may come across things that you would
>> > like to see changed or that you feel are not working right.  This
>> > site
>> > is based on a fork of Biostars, and we ask that you please post
>> > such
>> > questions to our github repository for this:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/Bioconductor/support.bioconductor.org/issues
>> >
>> > We aspire to switch over to this new site in early September, but
>> > we are
>> > leaving the schedule flexible depending on how well the beta site
>> > works.  Also: please note that posts made to the new site during
>> > the
>> > beta will dissappear after the test period.  We want you to help us
>> > test it, but this is not the live deployment phase quite yet.
>> >
>> > I expect there will probably be some other questions about this big
>> > transition. So please ask them as needed and we will try to answer
>> > them the best we can.
>> >
>> >
>> >   Marc
>> >
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