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Discussion-level privacy

RDB Richard D. Bartlett Thu 21 Nov 2013 4:06AM Public Seen by 181

We’ve recently made some changes to how group privacy works on Loomio.

You can now configure your groups to be public, private, or hidden:

  • Public - discussions are public. Anyone can see the group name, description, and membership. Anyone can ask to join.
  • Private - discussions are only visible to members. Anyone can see the group name, description, and membership. Anyone can ask to join.
  • Hidden - only members can see the group and its discussions. People have to be invited to join.

You shouldn’t need to do anything, we just wanted to give you a heads up about the new settings :)

Let us know if you have any questions!

Feel free to email rich@loomio.org if you have privacy concerns that you don't want to discuss in public :)

CT

Chris Taklis Thu 21 Nov 2013 5:28AM

That's what I was waiting... Thanks

AI

Alanna Irving Thu 21 Nov 2013 5:55AM

Will this option be adjustable as time goes on, such as if a thread starts private but then you want it to be public or vice versa, or is it a set it once and you're stuck with it type decision?

RDB

Richard D. Bartlett Thu 21 Nov 2013 8:10AM

Yep we're thinking discussion authors and group coordinators can change the discussion privacy at any time.

RDB

Richard D. Bartlett Thu 21 Nov 2013 7:35PM

@mjkaplan suggested 'Confidential' might be a better word than 'Secret', due to some negative connotations with that word. What do you think @jonlemmon?

JV

Joshua Vial Fri 22 Nov 2013 12:52AM

+1 to Confidential

P

PauKokura Fri 22 Nov 2013 9:24AM

+1 Confidential

CT

Chris Taklis Fri 22 Nov 2013 9:59AM

+1 Confidential

MS

Marcos Siqueira Fri 22 Nov 2013 4:45PM

Sorry if newbie question again, but isn't it interesting that you guys are using +1 in the discussion instead of creating a proposal and voting?

JL

Jon Lemmon Sun 24 Nov 2013 9:48PM

I'm not so sure about 'Confidential'. I think it could be a slightly confusing term. I think I'd like to stick with 'Secret' for now unless people have serious concerns. We can always change it later.

JL

Jon Lemmon Sun 24 Nov 2013 9:51PM

@marcossiqueira sometimes proposals are too heavy-weight for certain discussions/decisions. For this reason, we plan on implementing an "ideas" feature in the future.

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