[buddypress-dev] Privacy component

[Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk]

Hi,

Well, my initial thought was that people generally don't have a
well-defined map in their heads of where their friends are on a scale
of privacy. OK, geeks do. But normal people may want to be able to
just out their friends into arbitrary containers, without a
pre-defined hierarchy. Tagging is perfect for this.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Cass Edwards wrote:
> How would the UI work for tagging and groups?

Basically there would be a set of default tags which are created when
BP is installed. Things like "Friend", "Family" etc. These will be
selectable using checkboxes when a friend is being added/edited. New
tags will can also be entered in a textbox (comma-separated, like post
tags). New tags entered by the users will subsequently appear next to
the default tags with checkboxes.

As long as the user keeps to less than approximately 20 distinct tags
this will be fine. Any more than that and maybe a multi-select box
would be better. So a user will effectively create their own groups of
friends by the tags they assign. And, of course, a single friend might
have multiple tags and crossover several groups. The queries to check
all this might and up a little bit complex, but hopefully to the user
it will be pretty obvious what to do.

I'm currently building this into myJournal and hope to be testing it
tomorrow or Thursday.

Of course, there's very probably a better way. So, any thoughts?

Chris