InfoQ: “Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You?”

InfoQ: If I missed the “contact us” link, I apologize in advance.

I’ve read a couple of entries on javablogs from InfoQ, so jumped over to their site to check it out. I tried to subscribe to their RSS feed with Bloglines but no feeds were available. I surmised I had to register at InfoQ to get the feed. I went ahead and signed up (using a Firefox plugin to generate a password based on the current URL) and when I went to subscribe to my RSS feed (again with Bloglines) I was exposed to the “InfoQ Personalized” feeds for [insert InfoQ member name here]!” I wasn’t too thrilled about the ability of others to subscribe to my own “personalized” feed, but no problem. It turns out my feed wasn’t listed. Evenutally, I received an email from InfoQ with the link to my “personalized” feed so I was able to subscribe in Bloglines manually.

I logged out and then thought I should notify someone at InfoQ of this little problem. When I tried to log back in, a nice little Javascript box pops up to enter my id and password. Well, guess what? My password was invalid because the password generator depends on the URL. I’ve run into this before so I clicked on the “Forgot your password?” link. Nothing happened. No notificiation that email was sent, no “Try Again” message, nothing.

Why am I telling you all this? Because I can’t tell InfoQ since there is no “contact us” link (that I could find) on their site. InfoQ is a new site, launched June 8th. They must be confident their site is perfect or, just as likely, they’re not interested in what you have to say. I will mention here there is a link to “contribute news” but I had no news, just a complaint about the usability of their site.