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.
goob Sun 1 Mar 2015 3:06PM
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.
No, we shouldn't be able to send other people's contact details to a third party without their express permission (which seems to be what you're suggesting). This would be a complete no-no in a service which claims to provide 'privacy' and 'ownership of your own data'.
Jason Robinson Sun 1 Mar 2015 3:21PM
No, we shouldn’t be able to send other people’s contact details to a third party without their express permission
@goob you can already do that - just send someone a message with another persons details!
But it seems if this is to be implemented a vote is needed. And of course any profile visibility (currently we have none) should be taken into account when, if, implementing the feature.
@praveenarimbrathod if you want this implemented, please consider creating a vote here. I'll tag the issue on github as "loomio needed".
goob Sun 1 Mar 2015 6:34PM
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?
Pirate Praveen Mon 2 Mar 2015 2:02AM
@goob I don't think its abusing trust. This will share only people's public profiles.
Poll Created Mon 2 Mar 2015 2:06AM
implement an easy way to share contacts to ease discovery Closed Tue 10 Mar 2015 1:34AM
Withdrawing this proposal for a clearer one
We should be able to recommend a friend to share with people they might know from our contact list
Results
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Agree | 58.3% | 14 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 37.5% | 9 |
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| Block | 4.2% | 1 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 127 |
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24 of 151 people have participated (15%)
Pirate Praveen
Mon 2 Mar 2015 2:08AM
Yes, this will make discovering people easier
Jonne Haß
Mon 2 Mar 2015 2:15AM
Too vague (and I guess early) proposal. I'd be okay if people can prevent that or at least with limiting it to searchable people, but this is a no.
Jelle Langbroek
Mon 2 Mar 2015 8:30AM
This would make it easier, especially for newcomers, to make new friends.
Jason Robinson
Mon 2 Mar 2015 4:59PM
I think this is a good feature to have in a social network.
Jason Robinson · Sun 1 Mar 2015 2:40PM
Here is the issue on GitHub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/3388