@DoctorG The problem here is that Vivaldi is holding steadfast to a rigid adherence to the rule. As someone who has participated in the Vivaldi forums previously, I should be able to have access to an email if I delete a previous account. Currently there is no grey area in which to utilize one's basic analytical skills to choose an outcome that fits the situation. All or nothing solutions like this alienate people, regardless of how you feel about the issue.
Don't participate in a culture where it's ride or die "get out if you don't like it then," closed-minded thought.
I don't think any of the actual responses to this, in this thread, were responding in good faith and it clearly shows as each seem to be defending the decision like it were how their forefather's did it and their forefather's before them. The approach of the feedback giver will never matter if their isn't good faith exchange that ensues. No one is attacking your beloved Vivaldi and certainly no one is asking for them to risk an issue with getting overloaded with spam, but it's fair to discuss this as it's a very specific message that is being sent to us users, regardless of length as a user. (I've been using Vivaldi since about 2018?ish?) And the message doesn't feel like it fits with the image of Vivaldi itself.
I'm interested to understand more about how this is the only way to handle this and how the team envisions this fitting with the mission statement as imaged here in the screenshot. Specifically I'd like to understand how this reactionary and discussion stifling culture adheres to the last line in the mission statement.
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"...And they want to be heard."
You can disagree here, you don't have to want change, but the rhetoric I've been seeing (being forced, now, to interact with you) is that anyone with negative feedback should be shut down. I do not enjoy communities like that, and I can't imagine anyone on the other end of that, like OP here, would feel good about it. I refuse to believe that any one here hasn't had that experience. It sours one on a product/brand, and it is hard to recover from that. I hope none of you takes this person's write-up as anything but feedback as you go off and have your private thoughts on this, mulling it over and ultimately deciding on your opinion. But, OP doesn't sound like they needs to hear the same thing over and over again. I'm sure they understand the impetus of this, but like me seems to be unable to reconcile this anti-user decision with the image that Vivaldi wants to present.
Again, this is just something that should be taken as feedback and under consideration as your user base is (hopefully) going to grow with the amount of backlash large companies are taking for their terrible handling of user data and privacy.
There are some options that could even benefit the company.
In the end, having a nebulous points tracking system that we only know about but can't see, interact with, or what-have-you... seems a lot like someone over there is just deciding to flip a switch once they've decided they like you.
As someone who has donated, purchased gear, and participated in prior bug reporting and troubleshooting in the past, I don't think that this black and white system is beneficial to the overall health of the product.
I want to use Vivaldi and I want to rep it with my email, but if this continues down a road of stifling user feedback then I don't know how much longer Vivaldi deserves to have the public's trust and backing.
