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boltgolt / howdy

🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux
MIT License
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IRC/Discord channel #545

Open AwesomestCode opened 3 years ago

AwesomestCode commented 3 years ago

Would appreciate if there was a community style real-time support channel. I think it would help users like myself with basic questions about how Howdy works or assistance with installation (I wanted to know how this fares against Windows Hello and Apple Face ID in terms of security).

boltgolt commented 3 years ago

It's a good suggestion but it has one big caviat: On GitHub all issues are easily searchable and even then about half the opened issues boil down to the same 5 problems. I'm afraid having a chat channel would basically just be people asking how to set the device path

AwesomestCode commented 3 years ago

Have an FAQ bot that can be used to provide pre-written answers. That's what we do at PrismarineJS 😉

boltgolt commented 3 years ago

I guess it would work a lot better projects that have more of a community, like prismarine. I would think there's not a whole lot of people that want to be in a community of their authentication provider. I might be wrong of course so if people do want that, leave a comment here

EmixamPP commented 3 years ago

GitHub has recently implemented a "discussion" feature. It can be activate in the "Settings" tab. image

boltgolt commented 3 years ago

I've seen it used but i'm not 100% sure what it adds over just good old issues, as far as i'm aware it's just issues with a different UI