[buddypress-dev] Privacy component

[Donnie La Curan]

Tags would work too.  Its just a matter of being able to link a friend
("user") to that tag or group.  Then having those posts visible or not based
upon whether or not you are in that group.

Another thing to think about as well would be the RSS feed.  How is the RSS
feed to know who you are and if you are in that friends list.  I guess just
not showing any posts with a "friend level criteria" would be a way to go.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk <
chris at stillbreathing.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
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