Feature update: new group privacy settings
Robert Guthrie
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Yesterday we released a whole new system for managing the privacy of your groups. Now when you start a new Loomio group, you’ll get the following options:
Open access groups
As part of this feature, we’ve released the first version of ‘open access groups’. Setting your group to ‘open’ means that any Loomio user can join in immediately, without needing an invitation or approval.
New options, new language
We’ve tried to provide a comprehensive set of options without being too confusing. What do you think? Could it be clearer? We’ve had some really great feedback from the community to get to this point – we’d love you to join the conversation if you have anything to add.
Deleted account Tue 6 May 2014 4:12PM
@jonlemmon @robertguthrie I wonder whether the public discussion option needs to be split into public discussions which are searchable in search engines and those which can be seen by members who log into the loomio installation.
Robert Guthrie Tue 6 May 2014 8:31PM
@neilmorris - that sounds like a private discussion to me. You can have groups with public and private discussions. Or you can make a subgroup with private only discussions.
Are there any differences between what you're describing and a private discussion?
Deleted account Tue 6 May 2014 10:19PM
@robertguthrie - there is a slight difference. One is public, as in searchable on the WWW, the other would be searchable to people who log in to the Loomio website i.e semi-public but because you have to log in to the site not searchable through public search engines. This option to me is quite different from having a private discussion.
Robert Guthrie Tue 6 May 2014 11:38PM
To me it's actually the same as a private discussion. I can't technically see the difference.
Robert Guthrie Tue 6 May 2014 11:42PM
Hrrmm.. Sorry that seems a bit blunt. At this stage I see there is a slight difference but I think I'll run with how we have it because it's so far along and the difference is so slight, and potentially confusing or difficult to communicate to the user.
Happy to review later @ne
Richard D. Bartlett Mon 26 May 2014 12:01AM
Hey folks what do you think of the language in this version? Is it clear? Could it be clearer?
@seantilleycommunit @joshuavial @alanna @jessedoud
Alanna Irving Mon 26 May 2014 12:21AM
Only comment would be under "How do People Join". I'd go with something like....
- Open Group - anyone can join, no approval required
- By Request - new members need to be approved
- Invitation Only - new members must be invited to join
Alanna Irving Mon 26 May 2014 12:22AM
@richarddbartlett not sure how much feedback you're looking for, but if you want more I'd suggest raising a proposal like "the new groups settings language makes sense to me" - if you do that, update the context panel first.
Jesse Doud Mon 26 May 2014 12:24AM
Wow, looking great!
Thinking it would be nice to add some reassurance so users know that these options can be changed in the future. And labels and placeholders on the textareas could use a polish.
As is, to me this looks like a clear improvement.
Robert Guthrie · Mon 5 May 2014 9:40PM
@stevecoffman Right now the privacy stuff is 95% done and we're working on minor language tweeks. Subgroup of voters is another iteration.