Loomio
Thu 21 Nov 2013 4:06AM

Discussion-level privacy

RDB Richard D. Bartlett 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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