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Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:55:30 +0200

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Tim Schlotfeldt 🐧⚓ schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:55:29 +0200

Uh, I'm a little bit lost. Is there a link to informations about "technical skill level" or "techlevel"?

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Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:04:22 +0200

od@zotum.net

Your post is not understood

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:15:17 +0200

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓?️‍?

ts-new@hub.tschlotfeldt.de

@od The help says for some features is an technical skill level above 0 required. For example:

Connection Filtering

Filter incoming posts from connections based on keywords/content

Minimum required technical skill level to see this feature: 3

As I understand this skill level is changable. But how?

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:19:59 +0200

od@zotum.net

Wow! Documentation is not complete. We need to know why these "technical skill levels" exist? What are the definitions?
Very strange!

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:09:04 +0200

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

I think that was an attempt in the past to try to let people pick the level of complexity for the UI. I don't think that setting exists anymore.

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:32:56 +0200

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓?️‍?

ts-new@hub.tschlotfeldt.de

Thank you, @Marshall Sutherland (Posting with Hubzilla).

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:47:31 +0200

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Tech level was indeed a slider for Hubzilla channels that showed or hid certain UI features. That was done in order not to clobber "non-technical" people over the heads with Hubzilla's full feature set and stuff they'd probably never need.

I guess it was removed because it made things harder rather than easier because you'd sooner or later have to rip the tech level slider up to max anyway because there was always some important setting that you could only access at max tech level.

The documentation mentions it because it's hopelessly outdated. Parts of it are stuck around 2017 or so, other parts (allegedly four kinds of mentions although there are only two) are wishful thinking and mention stuff that was probably planned to be introduced. Most of the time when something is changed on Hubzilla, the documentation isn't changed along with it.

There are several plans to not update the documentation, but to actually re-write it so it turns from a tech spec into a user guide. One, I think, involves getting funding for that and then paying a professional.