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Damn, I had this idea in my list for the past few months! Kicking myself for not moving on it sooner. Congrats to the team, looks well done! It's a bit absurd

Damn, I had this idea in my list for the past few months! Kicking myself for not moving on it sooner. Congrats to the team, looks well done! It's a bit absurd that it's come to this but I guess that's where we're at now. One question I had in my "to figure out" list was: how do you handle making users messages public, when they feel like they're joining something private? Another question: do you sync deletions if a user goes back after e.g 1/3/6 months and deletes a message?

cheeseblubber 4y ago
For Slack we're making all threads private and we follow update and deletion immediately. For Discord we follow deletion after a day since we are doing a nightly sync for the time being. Privacy is one of our main priorities since I get that we're taking something that felt private into something that will be persisted on the internet. Here is a few ways we are/planning on addressing this: * We only store profile image, user id and display name for the user so we don't keep email or personal identifiable information * We just shipped a new feature where we can anonymize the display name so it is even less identifiable - i.e. with names like `many-ancient-parrot`, `adventurous-billowy-kangaroo`, and `benedict-cumberbatch`. * Right now we sync everything but very soon we are shipping features where communities can only sync from the new conversations. * Upon request we delete all the users's messages and conversations based on the user ID. We're shipping new where the community admin can delete conversations themselves in the coming weeks. * We allow community admins to decide which channels to show or hide since some communities choose to create new channels so it is clear that the conversations going forward here are public.
- Klonoar 4y ago
  Do you anonymize only the display name? If you do that, you should probably sub in a generic avatar or something. I use my personal photo on Discord communities I'm involved in, so you could randomize the name but it'd still be obvious it's me.
  - cheeseblubber 4y ago
    Now that you mention it seems obvious that should be a feature. I'll add it to the roadmap. Probably will be done in the next two weeks.
    - cheeseblubber 4y ago
      It's done now btw if you are curious.

cheeseblubber 4y ago

For Slack we're making all threads private and we follow update and deletion immediately. For Discord we follow deletion after a day since we are doing a nightly sync for the time being. Privacy is one of our main priorities since I get that we're taking something that felt private into something that will be persisted on the internet. Here is a few ways we are/planning on addressing this: * We only store profile image, user id and display name for the user so we don't keep email or personal identifiable information * We just shipped a new feature where we can anonymize the display name so it is even less identifiable - i.e. with names like `many-ancient-parrot`, `adventurous-billowy-kangaroo`, and `benedict-cumberbatch`. * Right now we sync everything but very soon we are shipping features where communities can only sync from the new conversations. * Upon request we delete all the users's messages and conversations based on the user ID. We're shipping new where the community admin can delete conversations themselves in the coming weeks. * We allow community admins to decide which channels to show or hide since some communities choose to create new channels so it is clear that the conversations going forward here are public.

Klonoar 4y ago
Do you anonymize only the display name? If you do that, you should probably sub in a generic avatar or something. I use my personal photo on Discord communities I'm involved in, so you could randomize the name but it'd still be obvious it's me.
- cheeseblubber 4y ago
  Now that you mention it seems obvious that should be a feature. I'll add it to the roadmap. Probably will be done in the next two weeks.
  - cheeseblubber 4y ago
    It's done now btw if you are curious.