Recently I was locked out of my own Ghost blog platform because they decided they were going to add Email 2FA. I also cannot add any other authors because that requires email verification.
Today I was looking at installing Bonfire and came across this:
Bonfire requires working email for user signups, password resets, and notifications. Most installations will need email configuration before the instance is usable.
Setting up email is a pain in the ass, costs money, is dependent on 3rd parties, violates privacy, and is just completely unnecessary. Why wouldn’t you give users the option to not use it? It’s infuriating!
If you’re self hosting, the email service only needs to be accessible to those services. Set up a postfix container if you don’t want these messages going out.
You can read them locally, or configure postfix to forward them to some other host if you desire.
I don’t want email to be accessible to those services. I don’t want those services to use email at all.
Then you’re free to patch it out.
Why do you assume everyone you interact with is a software developer?
I don’t think that assumption was inherent in the comment
If you want an unpopular feature that doesn’t exist on an open source platform sometimes your only options are to code it, or ask someone else to. The skillset of the feature requester doesn’t change that
I wasn’t asking for options, I was asking for an explanation.
In your OP, sure.
But this comment reads as a desired state, and in some situations thats a feature request (in this case it seems like there are architecture / system workarounds):
Did you get an explanation you’re happy with?