request and share contacts to ease discovery
Pirate Praveen
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One advantage centralized services have is the ability to search and find people using just their names. In diaspora we have to use their full address if were to find a person who us on a less known pod. This could be simplified by friend suggestions. We should be able to easily choose contacts and send it to friends. They should get a notification and a new aspect in contacts list as suggested friends. If we can't find a person by their names, we should be able to request our contacts in a easy format if they know the id of the person we are interested in.
Ivan Gabriel Morén
Mon 9 Mar 2015 2:24PM
Very vague.. :)
Deleted account Mon 2 Mar 2015 6:12PM
I'm not sure to really understand what this proposition is about.
Pirate Praveen Tue 3 Mar 2015 2:23AM
When we visit someone's profile, there can be a link which says 'suggest contacts', which will open a popup window with contacts excluding those who chose to make their profiles not searchable (we could another option to disable this 'don't show me on suggested contacts'). We can select the contacts, like we manage aspect memberships (click to select or unselect). We can show suggested friends on right panel and also send a notification. Also a new section of suggested friends can be shown in contacts page. I don't see any abuse here as we are sharing only already public info and we are allowing people to opt out.
Deleted account Tue 3 Mar 2015 8:08AM
Oh, it would be more or less like vcards you can send by SMS for cellphones ?
Juan Santiago Thu 5 Mar 2015 8:09PM
It's a good way for new users do not feel they are in a desert and to extend the Diasora sociability.
aj Fri 6 Mar 2015 4:18PM
in aspect settings there is "contacts in this aspect are able to see each other" toggle, but i don't recall ever seeing contacts of somebody else aspect
Jonne Haß Mon 9 Mar 2015 10:33AM
Mmh, shall we give this another week?
Faldrian Mon 9 Mar 2015 10:35AM
@jhass +1
@dremodaris this is not only GUI ... you may introduce additional notifications which a user may not want or introduce new post-types ... what is to be done is not clear from the text currently in this proposal.
dremodaris Mon 9 Mar 2015 10:41AM
Well, if I PM you someone's address, you're notified too.
But this is a strong argument against:
Well yeh, but there’s a difference between someone abusing trust on their own initiative and actually encouraging this by coding a means to do it into the software, isn’t there?
Another week is a good idea, there was barely any discussion.
Jason Robinson · Mon 2 Mar 2015 4:58PM
@goob I still don't see this as abusing trust - profiles being public. The actual implementation should of course follow profile visibility rules. Currently we only have a limitation on searching - maybe those can be filtered out? And if we actually had private profiles, those obviously.