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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?
To be fair, you are on a Self-hosting community but maybe read up the wiki or file the issue to suggest an option to make it not required on their git repo? 🤷
Otherwise, I'm not sure what else are we suppose to say
I wasn't asking for advice, I was asking for an explanation.
You should probably ask the developers then. But the answer is probably to support things like password resets in environments with multiple users. It's less development effort to implement it this way than to maintain multiple code paths with varying levels of account management.
...which ones?
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
This is the repo (unless I have the wrong software).
However, it seems they’re running a business, which means revenue generating features will probably be prioritized. They’re not running a charity.
I’m sure if you donate enough money you can probably get them to implement better self hosting functionality. Chances are the email requirement is just what they have for other features.
Ghost is just one piece of selfhosted software. But I have inquired and they have declined.
They are, actually. They're a registered non-profit.
More unnecessary functionality.
What was their reason for declining?
I see they’re a non profit business. That doesn’t make them a charity. They have paying customers.