Remember last used publishing aspect
Faldrian
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Hi!
I need some opinions on this one, so I thought this could be the place. ;)
I often hear people - especially new users - ask about where the default aspect for new posts could be adjusted. They have understood what "all aspects" and "public" means, but don't want to switch to public all the time if they primarily post public content.
There were already discussions about switching to "public" as new default, that idea has turned down and I totaly agree with that.
So there are a few ideas how to implement a less static default choice for the publishing aspect:
- Change nothing. The user must choose a different aspect than "all aspects" every time to make sure the user does not post public by accident.
- Create a default setting on user preferences where the default aspect can be chosen.
- Let diaspora remember the last choice and make this the default for the next time the publisher is shown to the user.
The following publisher-occurences would be affected by the default setting: on stream, on activity, on bookmark. If you are viewing your aspects, there are other controls influencing what the selected aspects are.
Choice 1 is status quo today and I think 2 is quite good, but also the difficult one to implement (but as I come to think more of it... now harder than choice 3, you only have to add a aspect-selector control to user preferences). Choice 3 may adjust to the behaviour of the user, but there is a risk the user does not check the aspect selector before posting, accidentially posting something public. This would also true for 2 if set to "public" in user preferences, but that change must be made by the user, so the user should be aware of the default. In constrast the remember-feature would select "public" by default if the last post was sent public.
Any thoughts on this?
Frode Lindeijer Wed 27 Apr 2016 10:50AM
:bulb: I think I'd prefer 3 with a slight modification: Not having it automatically pick the last one, but the most used one.
Without this modification I'd prefer 2.
CSammy Sun 22 May 2016 9:32AM
In my opinion this belongs to the Contacts page and into the aspects dropdown as a star icon. I'd prefer this is to be implemented.
Creak · Mon 18 Apr 2016 12:28PM
I agree with 3)
I'm well aware of the public/private problematic and I am a fervent defender of it. That said, I'm a full grown man, I know what I'm doing, I don't need the tool to be in my way.
I want my tools to work with me, not against me. I find that solution 2) is a bad solution because if we go like this for every small problems, we will end with a thousand properties to tweak in our account parameters and this is bad UX.
I think we should give some credits to the D* users, they already chose to use D* instead of FB or G+. I think we can say that they know what they're doing ;)