In my seemingly never-ending quest to find the best, most user-friendly, flexible, non-annoying, and free collaborative workspace in which to share ideas and data with a particular large research team, I recently set up some trial workspaces using various platforms. I didn't want to send out invitations to the entire group until I decided which, if any, we would be using, so I only added one guinea-pig colleague, just to test things out.
He was surprised when one of these sites sent him an automated e-mail with a link for joining and with some text that said (in slightly modified form):
I looked in the profile options to see if I could select a gender, but this is not an option. Apparently we are all, by default, men.
Yes, I wrote to the company.
He was surprised when one of these sites sent him an automated e-mail with a link for joining and with some text that said (in slightly modified form):
FSP has created his own project so that he can communicate with his colleagues and friends.
I looked in the profile options to see if I could select a gender, but this is not an option. Apparently we are all, by default, men.
Yes, I wrote to the company.