Is there a way to contact another forum member?

Jumpy

I would like to get in touch with "brent" specifically. I couldn't find a private message functionality. Could we exchange emails somehow perhaps?

@brent I have been doing a sort of an ebook on the desktop linux basics, and maybe you brent would be interested in polishing it to a more publishable form, as my english isn't good enough. I could send a pdf version for you to take a look at, to see if you might get interested of such a project. The book is currently 86 pages long and explains a lot of unix history required to understand why things are as they are.

DataDrake

Jumpy There is no private message system in Flarum. Everything is public.

algent

Jumpy Some people like to share their contact info in their profile, for example telegram, twitter, etc.
So outside this forum, that is the only way to communicate with them.

brent

Jumpy Flattered as s**t, thank you. I can edit. But as far as best practices, how to linux, and content I suck and have nothing to offer as years of my digital ineptness around here show.
And even though it seems half the mundane details of our uninteresting lives are also on display, I can't get over that 'reveal my email' barrier.
I don't IRC.
Excited about being part of any project that brings people to linux/unix, but I have to decline, unless someone can suggest an alternate channel.

elfprince

It would have been a nice feature, to be able to connect privately. 🙁

JoshStrobl

elfprince Good thing everyone is totally on IRC because they want to participate in the Solus IRC channels and community there, plus keep in contact with developers and each other that way, right? 😉

downhill

JoshStrobl I'm not on IRC, so everyone isn't. I hate chat; too disruptive and people get offended if you don't respond as fast as they think you should. I have better things to do with my time. Just my $0.02.

elfprince

I tried the old fashioned way of lurking in the channels, but got spooked with all the tech jargon and 'complicated' UI.
For me this forum is just perfect. 😅 Private messaging would just be a candy dandy feature.

jrsilvey

brent

Flattered as s**t, thank you.

All I could think of when reading your response the original poster was this, brent

brent

Jumpy I got it, so go ahead and delete. Talk to you later.

Staudey

Seeing as there now is a reply to his post he can't delete/edit it. This is a job for the mods.

Two idiosyncrasies of flarum demonstrated in one thread. What a treat 🙂

brent

sorry jumpy!

Jumpy

brent Don't worry. No harm done.

Jumpy

@brent I've been waiting for an email to show up from you brent. Incase you sent one, could you please resend?

brent

will resend, sir

brent

jrsilvey You earned a smiley for nostalgia! Considering my poor success rate at helping other forum members combined with how often I have to take one on the chin around here , so I got that going for my esteem, and that led to my bonafide exclamation of being 'flattered as sh**'! (Likely her sentiment as well.)
I can edit however! Jumpy got the manuscripts and I'm on it. My first ideas are all toward formatting first. will talk over email from here.

Jumpy

Here's my address again just incase:

No one please reply to this, so I can edit afterwards.

jrsilvey

brent

You must know alot about this kind of publishing to have someone ask for your help.. but just in case you might not know..

Scribus is an open-source publishing tool available in the Solus repo and in Flathub..

Typora is probably one of the most intuitive, full-featured Markdown editors if you want to do editing on the fly and it's available in Flathub.

Zotero is a bibliographer tool that lets you build references. It's really powerful.. also available in Flathub.

You probably have your own workflow but I have been researching alot of office apps lately and I figured if these links had the possibility to help I should throw them out there just in case.

brent

jrsilvey You must know alot about this kind of publishing to have someone ask for your help.. but just in case you might not know..

tbh someone thinks I do! I've dabbled, however.
Thanks for your suggestions. As someone who finds Quark 10X more superior than InDesign, Scribus is a regular tool and I'm glad we have it.
Have long thought about a reference storage thang like zotero. I just cut and paste my references and pdfs, throw them in a folder, and annotate them the old fasioned way. I imagine I could save entire days with Zotero or it's clones. I was going to consider Mendeley for that but the bulk...graci