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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?

Privacy?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

#53

> Our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child. That is actually really cool. Are there any privacy concerns though?

hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.

I am also intrigued by this. Would you mind sharing what other types information the feed provides?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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post #43

My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome. While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage. So fa…

You got engaged over slack?

Well, technically hubot did the engaging.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

#56

Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

Our extended family have been using Path for some years (https://path.com). It's private so even young children can post, no ads, very slick app. It doesn't support albums but posting pictures is easy.

Not sure about their business model, I would pay for the privacy and safety angle.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Nice use of slack. Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ? The first requirement is that anybody m…

Why not just create a Facebook group? What features are you missing?

Are you crazy?

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.

> the feed url is very long What does this have to do with the security of the feed?

If you can guess a really long URL you probably can also guess all information about any children you want.
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