Phewwwww. What happened, in short, is that zoomag got checked out by the registrar's abuse team or something. Njalla tries to bill itself as a hardcore freedom-of-speech advocate, though of course you know what we're often compared to. There's a specific oily feeling to positivity pieces when it comes to maligned sexualities, which is part of what Zoodonym warns about when he talks about too much raw meaningless positivity from all the Twitter zoos. (I originally used the word "investigated" in here, but I edited it out. I was talking about the registrar team!)

At some level, yes, we need to push back against incorrect public perceptions, and we should avoid placating bullies, but there's a complex space in there where we show what our values are and can actually move the needle.

Hey, welcome back ZC! If I had to guess some of those AZA (anti zoophile alliance) clowns probably mass reported your sites to the registrar. They've been giving us some trouble as well on ZCA. Glad you all could get it resolved without losing your domain names. Registrar locks can be a pain in the behind to unlock.

Sorry! I got busy and only managed to do some important upkeep today.

August always gets so busy for me. What's everyone been up to?

I'd like to see how to change my password but the only way I can figure out how to do it is to log out, enter the wrong password, and get a password reset link. Is there a simple way to reset one's password on Zoo Community?

And then also set up 2FA

I mean the email verification is *close* to 2FA but still if I don't know what my password is and can't find where to change it, it feels almost useless

I found where to change the password: 12 characters with no indication of what the requirements are aside from that. Still would be nice to set up some two factor authentication

Are you suggesting something like an sms sent to your device for you to do specific actions? I'm not sure that's going to get a lot of support from zoos generally, most of us keep our real identity and Identifying information such as a phone number from the real world far from our zoo identity.

Hello everyone

Greetings

Anyone with Telegram has a phone number, so yeah, it could work. I ought to add some features to the site. I've been slow to poke around the codebase.

I would LOVE to go through the entire site and remove all abbreviations of "Control Panel". Jeeeez

Glances at the top of the screen... Yeah not a bad idea! Subsituting it with "Controls" or to save space "Prefs" maybe.

Mike, I don't have a phone and I have Telegram. 🙃 Some people who have older accounts may have done the same thing I did.

I think 2FA that require a phone number does need to be an optional thing as there will be a number of members that do not want to provide a phone number for a zoo place. Everyone has different level for Opsec when it comes to such things.

I have multiple telegram accounts with "fake" burner phone numbers. I also have a password associated with each telegram account -- that's the second factor

Also update my burner phone number every four to six months

Well, *had* a phone number. I guess there are services where you get a number temporarily, and those wouldn't be usable later.