Conntects offers privacy channels, an extremely powerful means to make posts which can be seen by a subset of your subscribers.
While powerful, privacy channels are new, and thus weird. And they are overkill for when you mainly want to make public posts.
So I have sort of simplified the system for making personal posts. Instead of a bunch of checkboxes, you get a small set of radio buttons:
- Open Posts which anyone can see and comment.
- Public Posts which anyone can see but only subscribers can comment.
- Private Posts that can only be seen (and commented on) by a subset of your subscribers.
- Note to Self Posts only you can see and comment on. This feature is useful if you want to gather notes and/or links using multiple machines.
Only if you select Private do you see the checkboxes for your private channels.
Note that I had a distinction between Public and Open for Blogs and Groups for a while, but I didn't have this distinction for personal posts...until now.
I have done cursory testing and the updates seem to work. Please let me know if you find any bugs!
P.S. All your public posts from the past are now Open posts. If you wish to change any of these posts to Public, you can hit the Edit Post button and change the post type. Then do a Preview followed by a Publish. I hope this simplification will encourage people to make more personal posts. Please let me know in the comments of any user unfriendliness or bugs in the new system.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Jul 14, 2025 9:46 PM
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And I can simplify further by allowing users the option of setting a default privacy for posts. The radio buttons remain, but the default will be checked.
But I think my next step will be to make a new group -- the Alpha Testers -- and invite everyone in order to rekindle activity. Then I will listen to feedback there.
But, also, I'm thinking about allowing users to style their pages a la MySpace.
Chris Price on Jul 15, 2025 4:22 PM
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I never used Myspace. Are you talking themes or skins? Fonts, colors, etc?
Carl Milsted, Jr on Jul 15, 2025 4:25 PM
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Fonts and colors. And maybe background images. (These were popular on MySpace. Hard to read,but rather personal.)
Carl Milsted, Jr on Jul 15, 2025 4:31 PM
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And no, I never used MySpace. But I did stumble upon some MySpace pages back when MySpace was still a social networking site.
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